Bøger af Kevin Gaughen

It's all the news channels can talk about: the White House has been bombed, there's chaos in the streets, and the United States has found itself in the throes of a violent revolution. Surrounded by panicked people, washed-up journalist Len Savitz takes the crisis in stride. It's nothing that a stiff drink won't cure. After all, bad news only hurts optimists. But when the mysterious leader of the rebels cherry-picks him to acquire certain information for her, Len is forced to go on an investigative mission where he uncovers millennia-old secrets and unwittingly triggers a chain of disturbing events that will determine the future of humankind. Author Kevin Gaughen's dynamic debut novel, Interest, creates a seamless alternate reality behind real-world political tensions while keeping pace with its page-turning plot. Interest is as riveting as it is thought-provoking. Who really runs the world we live in? The further Len digs, the darker the answers appear to be...

After a pandemic, an invasion, and several other destabilizing calamities, North America has found itself in a decades-long state of chaos. North Korea has invaded the West Coast and colonized everything west of the Rocky Mountains. The rest of the continent has been torn apart by warlords with weapons of mass destruction. There is no safe place in these dangerous times. If you want to survive, you need protection. A series of competing security corporations has risen to fill the role government once did. If you pay enough and play by their rules, these companies and their massive armies will protect you from harm. If you don't, then you become just another casualty of a flawed system. One man, Daniel Barton, has a plan bring order and stability back to North America. His grand vision is to unite the security corporations into a single government. However, many want to see him fail, and the Dranthyx threat still looms. The question is, can Barton pull it off? The sequel to Gaughen's acclaimed debut, Interest, takes place thirty-five years later. Principal is both horrifying and inspiring, a vivid premonition of a future that is closer than we think.