First Line — An Unlikely Phoenix

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The first line of my 2018 release An Unlikely Phoenix (if you start with the prologue) is:

They say the eyes of history judge harshly, and it is true. 

If you want to skip ahead to chapter one, it is:

The prologue line, I dig. It is an intriguing line, and I give it a B+

You?

The chapter one line is workmanlike. It does its job, leading you in to what is happening.  I give it a solid C.

You?

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This novel is a bit of a departure for me. It is only tangentially crime fiction. More accurately, it is a near-future, alternate history, dystopian satire.

That’s a mouthful.

The year is 2028, and the president has just been elected to a fourth term. The country is in crisis, more polarized than ever. Immigration is a burning issue, about to burst into a conflagaration that may push some states to secede. All the while, a new political party that sprang up around the president has continued to maintain a stranglehold on the nation.

The story is told from three angles. One is a cop in St. Louis. Another is his brother, a state senator in California. The third perspective is in the form of excerpts at the beginning of each chapter, taken from a history book written in 2081.

That’s not a typo. 2081. Thus, the historian has about fifty-plus years of perspective that the people in the moment do not. It also allowed me to hint at things to come through his statements about what has already happened from where he is sitting.

Long story short, if you love our current president, you probably won’t dig this book. It might even make you mad. If you are not in love with this president, you will find this book compelling, and maybe even frightening. I released it in February of 2018 (on President’s Day, no less), and it is starting to become frightening to see how things are shaping up in the real world compared to the fictional one I wrote about….

The title comes from the idea that much of what is happening in 2028 USA parallels 1930s Germany. In the aftermath of the second world war, one would be hard pressed to have guessed that the same kind of white nationalism would eventually arise in the same nation that once helped to defeat it… indeed, the USA would seem to be one of the unlikeliest places for that phoenix to rise from…hence the title.
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