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Failed States
In an America on the edge of extinction, Thomas La Stella serves as a Deportation Force officer.
Tom is old enough to remember America before Dayton Day, the attack that finally brought the country to its knees, and the earth towards its death. Still fighting for hope, Tom clings to his pregnant wife, Riley, and begrudgingly serves a government on the brink of revolution. When the president of the country goes missing, a new, radical force rises from within and threatens every hope Tom has for a better future.
In Failed States by Justin O'Donnell, we experience a grim, fast-paced speculative thriller in the vein of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It is a tale that deals with political, religious, and violent themes ranging from cannibalism to abortion, while calling into question the fundamental clash between security and liberty.
Tom is old enough to remember America before Dayton Day, the attack that finally brought the country to its knees, and the earth towards its death. Still fighting for hope, Tom clings to his pregnant wife, Riley, and begrudgingly serves a government on the brink of revolution. When the president of the country goes missing, a new, radical force rises from within and threatens every hope Tom has for a better future.
In Failed States by Justin O'Donnell, we experience a grim, fast-paced speculative thriller in the vein of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It is a tale that deals with political, religious, and violent themes ranging from cannibalism to abortion, while calling into question the fundamental clash between security and liberty.
214 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2022
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January 20, 2023
High suspense
O'Donnell has written an amazingly suspenseful book with graphic descriptions of a world torn to shreds. It's a morality play for our time.
O'Donnell has written an amazingly suspenseful book with graphic descriptions of a world torn to shreds. It's a morality play for our time.
March 27, 2023
This fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian America keeps you intrigued and horrified at the same time. We follow Captain Thomas La Stella, a Deportation Force officer, through danger lurking around every corner while he is trying to beat the clock and save the most vital thing in his life. O’Donnell’s descriptive writing makes you feel like you are right there in the center of the action, including the destruction and desperation of society. The moral and political dilemmas presented in the novel make you consider what the reality of these circumstances could be like, as well as the possible consequences of our current social and political climates.
May 17, 2023
Failed States is not for the faint of heart or for those who have no room to challenge their own thoughts and belief systems. This book tackles a number of relavent and difficult geo political and moral topics in a fresh way. As an apocolyptic thriller, it keeps you reading quickly because of the constant action, but takes time for philosophical and psychological provocations that keep your mind engaged and asking "what would I do?"
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February 23, 2023What happens when a corrupt theocracy stages a political coup in the aftermath of an apocalypse? How does society move on? Justin O’Donnell ponders those questions and more in his near-future post-apocalyptic thriller FAILED STATES.
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