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Midwest Book Reviews...Fiction Shelf
http://midwestbookreview.com/sbw/sep_04.htm
In Outrage: We The People, novelist Michael Bret Hood draws
upon his many years of experience as a member of the U.S.
Department of Justice to craft an impressive political
thriller. An action-adventure story in which a group of
American citizens calling themselves "The Patriots"
decide to halt commercial and federal corruption by taking
things into their own hands, they put everything on the line
to broadcast their message and demand change - but at what
price? An exciting saga, written with vibrancy and a sense of
enthusiastic determination that disregards personal welfare
for the importance of getting done what has to be done.
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Review Books by Cheryl McCann...
http://www.review-books.com/
Captivating, timely political topic that will keep you
interested throughout the reading experience. Very well
written and plotted. I highly recommend it.
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Roundtable Reviews by Deb
Jones...
http://www.roundtablereviews.com/hoodmichaelbret82504.htm
OUTRAGE WE THE PEOPLE offers what may be a tantalizing idea for many Americans discontented with their elected officials, although author Michael Bret Hood’s book is a story of fiction, not fact. It is important to note that any idea of taking government into one’s own hands is not without risk of life, limb, or liberty.
Merrill Jackson is a southern Illinois male who recently has been stripped of his self-esteem and livelihood when the Messor Banks of Illinois foreclosed on the farm and farm home that had been in Jackson’s family for generations.
One bad year of crops, due to the worst drought that area had seen in one hundred years, and the bank was quick to come and claim his land. Jackson had been forced to move to a one-bedroom apartment, where he refused to allow his wife and son to live, feeling they deserved more than that. His wife, Mary Lou, and nine-year-old son, Bobby, were sent to live with Mary Lou’s sister while Jackson tried to reclaim his life in whatever manner he could.
Jackson’s discontent and hopelessness take him to the library, where by chance he begins to use the Internet and takes classes to learn to do so well. His research leads him to dig for, and find, all sorts of information not only on the Messor Banks, but also the corruption of politicians who voiced they represented the individual farmer, but in reality backed the people and corporations who have the money and influence. Jackson determines it is this same corruption that caused him to lose his farm, and soon discovers the same is true for many other farmers.
Some people only talk about their discontent; Jackson found a group of people who do more than talk— they make plans to take assertive action. The group calls itself The Patriots and the group eschews violence, instead work together to gather information and brainstorm to determine the best course of action for bringing the gathered info to the public. Jackson comes upon a novel and useful idea, and the group goes forward with carrying our Jackson’s plan.
Will The Patriots be successful in their plan to inform the general public of the political corruption of their elected officials? Will nonviolence work, or will more aggressive means be needed? Will the powerful machinery of big business be enough to override this plan?
You’ll have to read OUTRAGE WE THE PEOPLE to find the answers to these and other questions, but suffice it to say that the book’s premise will grab your attention and hold it until the end of the book. Author Hood’s good guys and bad guys are at each end of the continuum, suggesting that they are perhaps allegorical rather than individual characters. Washington, DC is just that, and perhaps as such is an allegory unto itself. An interesting and thought-provoking read. |
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