FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS by Preston Fleming

Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's account of a Soviet labor camp revolt in Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, the story of FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS follows political prisoners and security officials at a corrective labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control during the summer of 2024.

SYNOPSIS:
Kamas, Utah. 2024. In the totalitarian dystopia that America has become after the Unionist Party's rise to power, the American West contains vast Restricted Zones dotted with ghost towns, scattered military garrisons and corrective labor camps where the regime disposes of its real and suspected enemies. Kamas is one such camp.

On a frigid March night, a former businessman from Pittsburgh, Paul Wagner, arrives at a labor camp in Utah's Kamas Valley, a dozen miles east of the deserted resort town of Park City, which prisoners are dismantling as part of a massive recycling project.

When Wagner arrives, he is unaware that his eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, has set off to Utah to find him after becoming separated from her mother at the Philadelphia Airport. By an odd quirk of fate, Claire has traveled on the same train that carried her father into internal exile.

Only after Wagner has renounced all hope of survival, cast his lot with anti-regime hard-liners and joined them in an unprecedented and suicidal revolt does he discover that Claire has become a servant in the home of the camp's Deputy Warden. Wagner is torn between his devotion to family and loyalty to his fellow rebels until, on the eve of an armored assault intended to crush the revolt, he faces an agonizing choice between a hero's death and a coward's freedom.

In FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS, author Preston Fleming offers a stirring portrait of a man determined to survive under the bleakest of conditions and against formidable odds. Fleming's gift for evocative prose brings the characters and events to life in a way that arouses emotional tension while also engaging the reader's intellect with fundamental questions about the future of American society.

FROM THE AUTHOR:
After writing FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS and STAR CHAMBER BROTHERHOOD, my greatest concern has been that my novels reach an audience before the events they describe become reality. In EXILE HUNTER, the third novel in the Kamas Trilogy, the President-for-Life brings America’s overseas military and intelligence assets home only to redeploy them against domestic political enemies. The story’s protagonist, fearing the loss of his privileged life abroad as an undercover CIA officer, strikes a Faustian bargain by joining the newly created Department of State Security. Once on board, he is directed to turn the techniques he once practiced against Middle East terrorists toward wealthy American oppositionists living abroad. For anyone who distrusts the IRS, the NSA, the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security now, is it so far-fetched that today’s counter-terrorist specialists might become tomorrow’s Exile Hunters?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Preston Fleming was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He left home at age fourteen to accept a scholarship at a premier New England boarding school and went on to a respected liberal arts college in the Midwest. After earning an MBA, he led an international non-profit organization in New York before joining the U.S. Foreign Service and serving in U.S. Embassies around the Middle East for nearly a decade. Later he studied at an Ivy League law school and since then has pursued a career in law and business. He has written five novels.