The Harbinger Book One: The Raised

By Jessie K. MacCoinneach

Summary of THE HARBINGER BOOK ONE: THE RAISEDOdd things are happening around the Nation's capital: A Washington DC political maven plots home-grown terrorism with her favorite mercenary. A Defense Department experiment in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, to chemically infuse seasoned war-fighter skills intro raw recruits, goes badly awry. Forest and farm animals awake with startling new abilities. Following clues toward the source of their overnight evolution, they find a dreadful creature instead. Dupont Circle gains three new street people, whose worst attribute is not their appalling stench. And an Arabian stallion leaves the land of dreams, emerging corporeal in a local pasture.Amidst this m?lange of apparent happenstance, DC Detective Jackson McClennon finds himself leading a rag-tag band of human misfits and brainy if sarcastic animals to prevent terror on the streets of DC. The fast paced saga unfolds as the animals' intelligence increases exponentially, humans and animals uncover the street deviants' intentions, and a rogue scientist conducts illegal tests with dire results. Filled with suspense, humor, romance, and treachery, THE HARBINER BOOK ONE ignites the imagination as the reader devours pages to the startling conclusion.First in the Harbinger series, THE RAISED is a bold cross-over novel, fusing political intrigue with a fantasy world perhaps not that far ahead on our horizon. With profound characterization of animals as beings like that in Richard Adams' Watership Down, and examination of the human race with a scalpel like that of Orson Scott Card's Ender series, the tale is spiced with profound questions regarding Homo sapiens centrism. Brilliantly crafted, THE RAISED sets our feet on a journey to rethink our notions of what it means to be human, how we treat the other creatures who share our world with us, and what this portends for the future of the human race.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463618247
• ISBN13: 9781463618247
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"