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Category:
Science Fiction
Publisher: Publishamerica
ISBN-10: 9781615463992
Type: Fiction
Pages: 358
Copyright: June 2009
Stephen Gotlar, a first grade-building engineer and security strategist, is summoned by the American authorities to build a wall around a city after a natural disaster and a failed experiment. But when the United States government gives the green light to go ahead and construct twenty Detached Occidental Kingdoms (DOK cities) distributed all over Northern and Central America, it is already too late. His life takes the turn with the apparition of Bernard Rand; a lanky military fed who comes knocking at his front door with orders to go with him to the construction site. Ex police officer, Stephen Gotlar tears himself away from his wife for the first time in their married life to travel with Bernard to begin the DOK wall. Time is against them, as Stephen Gotlar and ten thousand others raise the super bastion to protect those already inside against an unusual molecular epidemic originating from somewhere on the Mexican coastline. The sophisticated wall is eleven-metres high, with walkways eight metres up, where hundreds of committed and trained people known as wall stalkers patrol its promenade with extraordinary rifles. The survival of forty thousand men, women, and children is dependent on my wall and the technology it supports
Between the first and last decades of the twentieth century lay a rift greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and the nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in Morse code and global television from the sky, between the first cars and computer generated images of space ships. But above all, it was the gulf between Wilbur and Orvil Wright and the first billion mile mission made to the moons of Jupiter. Since the evolution of our cerebral cortex, man has elevated his esteem from the ground limits and developed it into something far beyond his imagination. Science fiction became science fact as we crawled out from ape’s apparel into sapiens clothing. Now it is 2022...
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