Stephen Pocklington

Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time (Before It's Too Late, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

They say you can't fix stupid. But when Stupid is killing the planet, shouldn't someone at least try? When our collective peril becomes great enough, what might happen if a few righteous-minded individuals take direct action because their government won't?

Special Agent Jordan knows her duty. She enforces the Law. But now she's confronting an assassin whose every hit makes the world a better, safer place. Call him an eco-terrorist or vigilante, but so far his "victims" are just well-connected scum.

DNA declares this eco-terrorist to be her nemesis from a decade ago, scum in his own right who nearly destroyed her career. He's making it personal. Yet, there's something remarkable about this assassin...a purpose and underlying decency that doesn't fit. And he wants her to stop himor try.

Her pursuit stretches from D.C., where sniper fire took out 12 men in just hours, to L.A. and then back again, leaving a string of 100+ bodies along the way. DHS seems concerned only with obscuring the administration's connection to victims, forcing Jordan to work from the shadows, always several corpses behind the vigilante/Planet Steward.

Planet Steward? What sort of person wreaks such horror on the country and why? Is this how to save the planet?

Taunted by fragmentary clues left in daily warning messages, and aided only by what she learns from increasingly gruesome killings, can Jordan get ahead of him? Or, as she learns more about the so-called victims, will she even want to stop him? Will she find her answer or will it explode in front of her...?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stephen Pocklington
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215888216
• Artikelnr.: 67652772

Autorenporträt

Stephen Pocklington lives on a small Certified Wildlife Habitat within the High Rock Lake-Yadkin River Watershed in North Carolina. This haven is shared with his partner of twenty-four years, their dog Lucille Rose, and a growing number of other species. Amidst this wildlife, the family persists in cultivating formal vegetable and flower gardens, due to which the world has been mercifully spared from several imagined novels.

Stephen is a bruised idealist who's evolved into an apprehensive realist trying to become a decent meliorist. He understands Humanity's peril well enough to be duly alarmed but still believes in human potential. Thus, he remains strangely disposed to imagine humans completing their evolutionary leap into rationality, though, at seventy-four, probably not in his lifetime. He also believes (irrationally) that humans may still be capable of preserving our planet's capacity to sustain us, if only just barely.

Given the context of this novel, readers should note that Stephen holds fast to the precept, Cause no unnecessary harm, and hasn't fired any weapons since the Army took them away, deemed him unfit, and sent him home in 1981. He was a fairly good shot, but then he got better. Since laying down the sword, he has relied entirely on his somewhat bloody pen.