In this second dystopian legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed Rule of Capture and Tropic of Kansas, lawyer Donny Kimoe juggles two intertwined cases whose outcomes will determine the course of America's future—and his own.

In the aftermath of a second American revolution, peace rests on a fragile truce. The old regime has been deposed, but the ex-president has vanished, escaping justice for his crimes. Some believe he is dead. Others fear he is in hiding, gathering forces. As the factions in Washington work to restore order, Donny Kimoe is in court to settle old scores—and pay his own debts come due.

Meanwhile, the rebels Donny once defended are exacting their own kind of justice. In the ruins of New Orleans, they are building a green utopia—and kidnapping their defeated adversaries to pay for it. The newest hostage is the...]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:30:44 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-brown/485159-rule_of_capture.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-brown/485159-rule_of_capture.html
"This one is fresh, intelligent, and emotional with a plot that envisions an alternate reality hard to dismiss as unreal. It's a legal thriller, with a big twist, stirring and imaginative, brimming with skullduggery, that will have you asking: is this possible?" — New York Times bestselling author Steve BerryBetter Call Saul meets Nineteen Eighty-Four in this first volume in an explosive legal thriller series set in the world of Tropic of Kansas—a finalist for the 2018 Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of the year.
Defeated in a devastating war with China and ravaged by climate change, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war. Seizing power after a controversial election, the ruling regime has begun cracking down on dissidents fighting the nation's slide toward dictatorship. For Donny Kimoe, chaos is good for business. He's a lawyer who makes his living defending enemies of the state. His...]]> Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:17:59 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-brown/163997-tropic_of_kansas.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-brown/163997-tropic_of_kansas.html
"Futurist as provocateur! . . . the world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment."—William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author"Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not 'make America great again,' but then again, it just might."—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award winning author of Homeland Acclaimed short story writer and editor of the World Fantasy Award-nominee Three Messages and a Warning eerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off—from the other side—in this haunting and provocative novel that combines Max Barry's Jennifer Government, Philip K. Dick's classic Man in the High Castle, and China Mieville's The City & the CityThe United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known as "the Tropic of...]]> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:11:39 +0200