"The end times are here."A chance encounter with a skinhead carjacker leads Mai Fisher and Alexei Bukharin to research America’s extreme right wing, a bleak world of militias, paramilitary compounds, and racist religion. Then, the U.S. Government requests The Directorate’s assistance for a standoff with a religious cult in Killeen, Texas. There, she and Alexei not only make an enemy of the FBI’s special agent in charge but Mai also spots a young man among the protestors at the site, a man whose vacant expression reminds her too much of herself. After the FBI SAC rejects their plan for a peaceful resolution, Mai and Alexei hunt the young man at gun shows around the country. To encounter him, Mai revives a persona from a mission that almost killed her, and Alexei searches for a paramilitary compound to infiltrate. They soon realize these home-grown extremists are serious—and dangerous. They want to dismantle the U.S. government and replace it with an autocracy straight out of their favorite dystopian novel.Meanwhile, John Thomas Carroll, the man Mai spotted at Killeen, is at the end of his proverbial rope. No job, no prospects for the future, helpless to save the life of a child he loved, he wants to end his life—until he remembers a woman he met at a gun show. Has Mai Fisher unknowingly given a terrorist a reason to live?

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P. A. Duncan is a retired bureaucrat but one with an overactive imagination. A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in History and Political Science. Politics and history manage to work their way into her fiction. She is the president of the Virginia Writers Club (VWC), one of the oldest writer organizations in the country. Her debut novel, A WAR OF DECEPTION, received the New Apple Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing, Best Historical Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. When not writing, reading, singing in a UU choir, watching the Yankees and/or NASCAR, she delights in spoiling her grandchildren.

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