Winner of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Political Thrillers, 2021
Winner of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards for Dystopian Fiction, 2022
Distinguished Favorite of the New York City Big Book Awards, 2019
When his nephew shows up covered in blood and remembering nothing, Russell is yanked into a world of treachery and imperial deceit.
Both astonished and terrified, he discovers he sustained a brain mutation in childhood that has given him extraordinary mental abilities. Abilities which are only just now surfacing.
For 12 years, Russell has kept his brilliant refugees secluded from the cruel, chaotic dictatorship that now rules the United States. And until now, the violent planetary eruptions and seismic storms have not seriously threatened their Catskills community.