The Gray Anarchist
A U.S. senator and the leading opponent of a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data is targeted by a rogue White House aide to uncover the senator's past as a college activist and possible eco-terrorist. Riveting and relevant. Alive with tension, flawed or seriously damaged characters capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
Lauren Bastini, a 73-year-old white female environmental activist, wages a terrorist campaign on the United States, leading to a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. FBI agent George Blum's last assignment is to disrupt the campaign of Senator Allan Hansen. Blum pressures Bastini to say that Hanson was an active member of a radical environmental group when he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Hansen's campaign manager, Deirdre Owens, with a taste for erotic bondage, must find a way to fight campaign interference by an overreaching White House and keep her candidate from quitting the race. Bastini vows revenge on Hansen for testifying against the group in college. She kidnaps Hansen and Owens, leading to a wild ride through an Air Force bombing range on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Behind-the-scenes betrayal, intrigue, and dirty politics are just another day at the office for this thriller, centered on the highest stakes of politics, national security, and ecological fragility. Allen Hansen is a sitting senator running for reelection and the leading opponent of the Sentinel Act, a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data, and a corrupt president has ordered an operation to uncover Hansen's past as a college activist, and possible eco-terrorist. But it's two women who are at the heart of this story. Deirdre Owens, the campaign manager for Senator Hansen, desperate to protect him from the press and the plots of the President. Then there's Lauren Bastini, the radical one-time leader of the Oakland Four, now 73, disfigured from an attempted firebombing of a biotech company, and still committed to the violent destruction of the U.S. Government and of corporate America.
The author draws on a background in national security and politics to weave an exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance. Riveting and relevant. Flawed or seriously damaged characters—all are one or the other—capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
A timely, high-stakes political page-turner...Our verdict-buy it.
Kirkus Review of Books
"An exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance."
—Publishers Weekly/BookLife"
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Lauren Bastini, a 73-year-old white female environmental activist, wages a terrorist campaign on the United States, leading to a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. FBI agent George Blum's last assignment is to disrupt the campaign of Senator Allan Hansen. Blum pressures Bastini to say that Hanson was an active member of a radical environmental group when he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Hansen's campaign manager, Deirdre Owens, with a taste for erotic bondage, must find a way to fight campaign interference by an overreaching White House and keep her candidate from quitting the race. Bastini vows revenge on Hansen for testifying against the group in college. She kidnaps Hansen and Owens, leading to a wild ride through an Air Force bombing range on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Behind-the-scenes betrayal, intrigue, and dirty politics are just another day at the office for this thriller, centered on the highest stakes of politics, national security, and ecological fragility. Allen Hansen is a sitting senator running for reelection and the leading opponent of the Sentinel Act, a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data, and a corrupt president has ordered an operation to uncover Hansen's past as a college activist, and possible eco-terrorist. But it's two women who are at the heart of this story. Deirdre Owens, the campaign manager for Senator Hansen, desperate to protect him from the press and the plots of the President. Then there's Lauren Bastini, the radical one-time leader of the Oakland Four, now 73, disfigured from an attempted firebombing of a biotech company, and still committed to the violent destruction of the U.S. Government and of corporate America.
The author draws on a background in national security and politics to weave an exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance. Riveting and relevant. Flawed or seriously damaged characters—all are one or the other—capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
A timely, high-stakes political page-turner...Our verdict-buy it.
Kirkus Review of Books
"An exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance."
—Publishers Weekly/BookLife"
The Gray Anarchist
A U.S. senator and the leading opponent of a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data is targeted by a rogue White House aide to uncover the senator's past as a college activist and possible eco-terrorist. Riveting and relevant. Alive with tension, flawed or seriously damaged characters capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
Lauren Bastini, a 73-year-old white female environmental activist, wages a terrorist campaign on the United States, leading to a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. FBI agent George Blum's last assignment is to disrupt the campaign of Senator Allan Hansen. Blum pressures Bastini to say that Hanson was an active member of a radical environmental group when he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Hansen's campaign manager, Deirdre Owens, with a taste for erotic bondage, must find a way to fight campaign interference by an overreaching White House and keep her candidate from quitting the race. Bastini vows revenge on Hansen for testifying against the group in college. She kidnaps Hansen and Owens, leading to a wild ride through an Air Force bombing range on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Behind-the-scenes betrayal, intrigue, and dirty politics are just another day at the office for this thriller, centered on the highest stakes of politics, national security, and ecological fragility. Allen Hansen is a sitting senator running for reelection and the leading opponent of the Sentinel Act, a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data, and a corrupt president has ordered an operation to uncover Hansen's past as a college activist, and possible eco-terrorist. But it's two women who are at the heart of this story. Deirdre Owens, the campaign manager for Senator Hansen, desperate to protect him from the press and the plots of the President. Then there's Lauren Bastini, the radical one-time leader of the Oakland Four, now 73, disfigured from an attempted firebombing of a biotech company, and still committed to the violent destruction of the U.S. Government and of corporate America.
The author draws on a background in national security and politics to weave an exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance. Riveting and relevant. Flawed or seriously damaged characters—all are one or the other—capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
A timely, high-stakes political page-turner...Our verdict-buy it.
Kirkus Review of Books
"An exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance."
—Publishers Weekly/BookLife"
Lauren Bastini, a 73-year-old white female environmental activist, wages a terrorist campaign on the United States, leading to a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. FBI agent George Blum's last assignment is to disrupt the campaign of Senator Allan Hansen. Blum pressures Bastini to say that Hanson was an active member of a radical environmental group when he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Hansen's campaign manager, Deirdre Owens, with a taste for erotic bondage, must find a way to fight campaign interference by an overreaching White House and keep her candidate from quitting the race. Bastini vows revenge on Hansen for testifying against the group in college. She kidnaps Hansen and Owens, leading to a wild ride through an Air Force bombing range on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Behind-the-scenes betrayal, intrigue, and dirty politics are just another day at the office for this thriller, centered on the highest stakes of politics, national security, and ecological fragility. Allen Hansen is a sitting senator running for reelection and the leading opponent of the Sentinel Act, a bill crafted to give the FBI unchecked power to collect U.S. citizens' data, and a corrupt president has ordered an operation to uncover Hansen's past as a college activist, and possible eco-terrorist. But it's two women who are at the heart of this story. Deirdre Owens, the campaign manager for Senator Hansen, desperate to protect him from the press and the plots of the President. Then there's Lauren Bastini, the radical one-time leader of the Oakland Four, now 73, disfigured from an attempted firebombing of a biotech company, and still committed to the violent destruction of the U.S. Government and of corporate America.
The author draws on a background in national security and politics to weave an exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance. Riveting and relevant. Flawed or seriously damaged characters—all are one or the other—capture the reader's attention and pull them into a scarily credible plot.
A timely, high-stakes political page-turner...Our verdict-buy it.
Kirkus Review of Books
"An exciting story alive with tension, jolts, and contemporary political resonance."
—Publishers Weekly/BookLife"
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