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PREFACE
‘As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain, since he toils for the wind?’ [Ecclesiastes. 5:16]
In 1984 terrorists planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton, England, during the Conservative Party Conference. They failed to remove the government of the day -- but what if they had succeeded?
What if the event accelerated Europe into a Federated Union with a centralised government in Brussels, the Presidium, who hold to the premise that security is paramount, sacrosanct?
What if they in turn birthed a regime originally meant to protect the people, but which quickly became a tyrannical organisation -- the Federal Security Division. A force that implements draconian measures in the name of the collective State, where special internment camps spring up for subversives and those who speak out against the Union; where oppression and cold-bloodied murder are rife.
In the summer of 1994, one man is embroiled in this political nightmare, yet at the same time he is faced with the possibility of redemption from a millstone of guilt about his past -- that is, of course, if he can survive.
CH 1
Paul Cain would blow his brains out; there was nothing complicated about it--sane or insane, people did it when they’d had enough.
Reluctant at first to leave the skin-tight warmth of his bed, he finally tossed back the duvet and stood, naked and shivering, in the chill of the sparsely furnished room.
Not even a whisky bottle could lie to him that morning. Death loomed with the same clarity as the mental pictures of last night’s ferocious thunderstorm. The truth was, he’d been planning to top himself for ages, and it was pure self-deceit for him to think that it |
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The Glass Alibi
by John Burns
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 There is no mystery on this journey to hell. You are witness to the crimes dealing out the death sentences... each justified by one of the seven deadly sins.
Enter a glamorous world controlled by one of San Francisco's ultra-wealthy socialites an |
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