Redemption

by Lee Jackson

Book Overview

Set a few months or a few years from now, novelist Lee Jackson's portrait of America is a very familiar one. People carry their ID cards wherever they go. Gas is expensive and the value of the dollar has dropped so far that even rural areas like Redemption, Montana, have thriving black markets, barter economies, and high unemployment. But otherwise, life in the small town goes on day by day. Andterrorism is a constant worry across the country, even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312363443
• ISBN13: 9780312363444
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Eerily prophetic!

This book might be fiction, but it sure seems like Lee Jackson can see into the future of real America. Everyone should read this book, it's scary and probably so close to true events that go on in our country that we don't want to beleive it. Call me radical or crazy, but he hit the nail on the head with this. Our beautiful free America, if it does not change, soon and quickly, is going right down this path. Laugh now, but if we remain in the steady state of decline that we are in at the present, it won't be long before themes Jackson presents in this book start happening. I hope I'm wrong, completely wrong and our economy and "world domination" way of dealing with the rest of the world changes. But, if I'm not, then this is just a small glimpse of life, in future America.

A haunting view of what becomes of a country when no one defends civil libereties.

I started this book before bed and never put in down before I finished. It was a haunting and too familiar story of what can happen in an Orwellian America that fears terror more than it loves civil liberties.