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A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror—an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.
Nobody knows anything about it but them that has the trial -- I cramped a darkie and a mule -- Talk of war at home -- I am willing to be governed by your judgment -- This is no place for boys. they soon go to destruction -- Mown down like grass -- Good Lincoln times by gravy -- Epilogue -- Notable individuals in the Standards' correspondence -- Appendix
This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's research and development agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to the nation's strategic development of technologies as diverse as automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and the Strategic Defense Initiative ('Star Wars'). His book reveals a striking relationship between the increasing political influence of speculative military fiction and the parallel rise of superpower states and their technocentric ideologies. With its detailed political, historical, and literary analysis of U.S. and British fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively and revealing study will appeal to students, literary and cultural scholars, military and history enthusiasts, and general readers.
SUPERNATURAL ACTION/ADVENTURE WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES LATE INTO THE NIGHT.IS ETHAN FREEMAN AMERICA'S WORST TERRORIST, OR SOMETHING MUCH MORE EXTRAORDINARY? Ethan Freeman, ex-Special Forces Ranger, is the sole survivor of a fiery commercial airline crash that killed his entire family. The FBI thinks he's a mass murderer and domestic terrorist. Sam Weaver, the NTSB Chief Investigator, is an ex-military pilot and senses Ethan is innocent. Neither Ethan nor Sam realize shadowy spiritual forces are at work. An ancient evil, imprisoned since the time of the Pharaohs, has been released by a sinister group of powerful men and women who believe they are the direct descendants of the Anunnaki, ancient Sumerian gods. The demon they released intends to free The Destroyer and his horde of Fallen Angels from The Abyss, the angelic prison referred to in the Book of Revelation, and unleash a reign of terror and annihilation. Time is running out for humanity as Ethan and Sam are drawn into a conspiracy millennia in the making. Will they overcome their deepest fears and find a way to defeat the ancient evil determined to enslave an unsuspecting world? ˃˃˃ CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SEQUEL! WOW! Michael J. Webb has done it again. He has crafted another epic story of loss and redemption and ultimate good vs. ultimate evil wrapped in an action-packed thriller filled with memorable characters, exotic settings, and unexpected twists and turns that will leave you breathless for more. Filled with fascinating, little-known historical details, fallen angels, and dramatic, jaw-dropping encounters with the supernatural, this is one novel you won't be able to put down until the last page. So give yourself plenty of time when you start reading, because you won't want to do anything else until you reach the dramatic conclusion . . . Olivia O.-- An Avid Fan Scroll up and add to cart today.
Walsh gives a detailed history of Hitler's great failure and a comprehensive account of one of the most important battles of World War II. With full-color strategic maps, 170 b&w photos, and detailed appendices, "Stalingrad" is an exhaustive look at the battle that bled the German army dry.
One day every hundred years, a town appears, its location and character different every time. It is home to the greatest miracle a man could imagine: a doorway to Heaven itself. The town’s name is Wormwood, and it is due to appear on the 21st September 1889, somewhere in the American Midwest. There are many who hope to be there: travelling preacher Obeisance Hicks and his simple messiah, Soldier Joe; Henry and Harmonium Jones and their freak show pack of outlaws; the Brothers of the Order of Ruth and their sponsor Lord Forset (inventor of the Forset Thunderpack and other incendiary modes of personal transport); and finally, an aging gunslinger with a dark history. They will face dangers both strange and terrible: monstrous animals, predatory towns, armies of mechanical natives, and other things besides. Wormwood defends its secrets, and only the brave and resourceful will survive...
"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown." —The Washington Post A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genre—Stalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among them—produced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless tedium that continues to this day. How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes? What do these books reveal about the dictatorial soul? And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm? Putting daunting research to revelatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions. Marshalled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the century’s most notorious figures. Their words led to the deaths of millions. Their conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brooked no argument. It is perhaps no wonder then, as Kalder argues, that many dictators began their careers as writers.
The sequel to the first Primitive War novel...As the Cold War reaches an infernal end...A particle accelerator has been sabotaged in the dark heart of Angola's war-torn wastelands. Primeval horrors re-enter the savanna, claiming countless lives as they forge a new ecosystem.Zosimus Kaikara and Josef Gustavo, a pair of Angolan bounty hunters, are tasked with leading the elite dinosaur-tracking team Stalker Force and the mysterious paramilitary contractors of Quad Equitum to the abandoned particle accelerator in the southern highlands.As the men devolve in their struggles to survive the inhospitable lost world, the landscape of the earth is changed forever by...the Primitive War.Disclaimer - This novel is set during Angola's War of Independence and as such features heavy language, graphic violence, drug use, mentions of rape and sexual assault, as well as other reinterpretations based on the harsh realities of war. All of the dinosaurs within this novel are mentioned by their modern names, regardless of when they were discovered, for the sake of clarity. All references within the work to other existing works are done so for the sole purpose of paying homage to the author's inspirations mentioned on the title page within the book.