The Great Divide

By Frank M. Robinson, John Levin, John F. Levin

Book Overview

In the hallowed halls of the capital, some who have sworn to preserve our nation's union are secretly plotting its demise ... and they are willing to kill to achieve their goals.

The country has been split into two distinct factions over energy - "the haves" (those states that are fuel self-sufficient) and "the have nots". The inept execution of a flawed foreign policy in the Middle East has resulted in an Arab-backed oil embargo of the United States.

Now the country is in the grips of the most severe winter in years, and rationing has led to unrest and rioting in the streets ... and certain politicians and business power brokers are ready to make a move.

As masses freeze in Chicago and the northeast, fuel-sufficient sunbelt conspirators seek to separate themselves from the rest of the nation, make their own foreign policy, and govern by their own rules--and to do it they will resort to blackmail, bribery, and even murder.

The Constitution is only a stumbling block, and it can be amended.

The United States will be united no more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765336987
• ISBN13: 9780765336989
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Great Divide

I've finished reading The Great Divide, enthralled of course, and am now ready to send it on to a friend who will enjoy it quite as much, I guarantee. But in view of my prejudice against the packaged penultimate-chapter detailed-penetration sex in so many current popular novels, I want especially to congratulate the authors on their handling of this requisite sex scene. Well and cleverly done!

You won't be able to stop reading this

A gripping political thriller, this book is disturbingly timely. Opening with the US crippled by A Middle East oil embargo precipitated by an incompetent president who bombs Iraq...a nation deeply divided...and the story unfolds from there. All this and a charming love story, too. I'd advise waiting to start reading until you have time to finish it in one sitting, because you won't be able to stop.

Spellbound

This book held me in place for three and one-half days and I hated for the story to end although I loved the ending. This is a believeable blow by blow story from the perspective of the insiders trying to overthrow the United States government and those defending it. The authors' use of dates and hours for each step of the way holds the reader in a state of tension and expectation for hours at a time. It is a story of power lust, academic corruption, misuse of police power and unbridled ambition versus a death defying sense of loyalty and high intelligence on the part of the protagonists defending the Union in the twentyfirst century. John Mason Hart Houston, Texas

Echoes of the Manchurian Candidate

This political thriller is eerily on target--an oil crisis, challenges to the constitution, powerful people playing by their own rules to destroy democracy as we know it. I loved this gripping book.

Page Turner with Punch

I picked "The Great Divide" up in the summer reading section of my super market and read it straight through. Now I'm buying copies to give to friends.It's a thriller about the future. But it's based on the things we are seeing today. Take a look at gas prices this summer! And don't forget the mess in the Middle East. Much more fun than reading about a comet hitting the earth. And much more to think about too.