The Punishments
Entertaining thriller warning about life after electing a demagogue
by JB WINSOR
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Pub Date Jun 01 2016 | Archive Date Dec 02 2016
Boulder Digital Publishing, LLC | AuthorBuzz
Description
Angry, fearful voters elect a narcissistic demagogue President and fundamentalist congress. The CIA, FBI and IRS are organized into a super-department, the Department of Virtue, with a mandate to bring the nation back to its Christian roots. Virtue’s director institutes Biblical Law punishments as an example to those who break the commandments. Only two US Senators -- and one mysterious woman -- can prevent a disaster.
ONE VOTE
One vote against the Citizens Justice & Security Act thrusts Senator William Thatcher and his family onto the dreaded ‘enemies list’ at the new Department of Virtue. Thatcher is a middle-aged husband, father, and terrorist war veteran. He’s also an evangelical praying in vain for forgiveness for a love affair and secret war crime.
He teams up with his former lover, a sultry Moroccan arms dealer who needs to ransom her own daughter, held in Marrakesh, from a depraved monster – her father.
Thatcher’s wife, Carol, a blacklisted Planned Parenthood attorney, launches a fight against Virtue’s proposed ‘temporary’ suspension of the 19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote.
Their eleven-year-old son, Billy, is caught in the crosshairs of the Director’s attempt to control Thatcher.
Virtue’s Director plans a worldwide spectacle to introduce Biblical Law (death by stoning for adultery, homosexuality, murder, idolatry, etc.). He also plans to explode a suitcase nuclear bomb in Manhattan to initiate the Rapture.
Thatcher’s final act of self- sacrifice and love may or may not save his family and America from destruction.
WELCOME TO TOMORROW
Advance Praise
—Devin Hurd, a top ten GoodReads reviewer.
"The Punishments shows it can happen here."
—Ron Stewart, author of Then Comes the Wind
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780982919439 |
| PRICE | $0.00 (USD) |
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