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Lawless Elements
Bascom's fast-paced fiction debut introduces a compelling new series protagonist, Steve Bryce, in a blend of adventure, thrills and adult romance.
Steve, an American businessman, is living in the Philippines with Amina Taiba, a Muslim activist devoted to the struggle against those who would seize the resource-rich lands of the Moros in Central Mindanao, an ungoverned territory. Amina's family intends to break up their relationship and Steve's employer will terminate him if he gets involved in Philippine politics. Steve endures these challenges until a professional thief steals Amina's secret databases. before Steve can learn what her files contain, Amina disappears. Defying his employer and Amina's family, Steve pursues Amina and becomes mired in a clandestine world of spies, terrorists and assassins.
Bascom transports the reader to the exotic Philippines and the conflict between imperial Manila and the Moros, the predominately-Muslim tribes. The Moros adapted Islam to conform to their tribal traditions. Although Moro women like Amina might pray in the back of the mosque, they enjoy powers and freedoms not tolerated in other Islamic societies. For 350 years, the Moros have fought to retain that culture and their land. Lawless Elements illuminates what may be the last chapter in their struggle.
Lawless Elements is a Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal winner. The judge, Brandi Bowles, "I chose your MS because I greatly admired your ability to paint the complex relationship between Steve and Amina."
Steve, an American businessman, is living in the Philippines with Amina Taiba, a Muslim activist devoted to the struggle against those who would seize the resource-rich lands of the Moros in Central Mindanao, an ungoverned territory. Amina's family intends to break up their relationship and Steve's employer will terminate him if he gets involved in Philippine politics. Steve endures these challenges until a professional thief steals Amina's secret databases. before Steve can learn what her files contain, Amina disappears. Defying his employer and Amina's family, Steve pursues Amina and becomes mired in a clandestine world of spies, terrorists and assassins.
Bascom transports the reader to the exotic Philippines and the conflict between imperial Manila and the Moros, the predominately-Muslim tribes. The Moros adapted Islam to conform to their tribal traditions. Although Moro women like Amina might pray in the back of the mosque, they enjoy powers and freedoms not tolerated in other Islamic societies. For 350 years, the Moros have fought to retain that culture and their land. Lawless Elements illuminates what may be the last chapter in their struggle.
Lawless Elements is a Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal winner. The judge, Brandi Bowles, "I chose your MS because I greatly admired your ability to paint the complex relationship between Steve and Amina."
414 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 7, 2011
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Greg Bascom
3 books10 followersGreg Bascom left Connecticut as a teenager to work in Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America. He survived a car crash on the road to Bangkok in 1967, head trauma in the Philippines and subsequent brain surgery in Hawaii in 1977, and being the star hostage in a plane hijacking in Honduras in 1982. He has settled in Costa Rica to relate his adventures in traveler’s tales and fiction.
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