Mike Kennedy

Bare Branches (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

One-child rule & female infanticide unbalances the population, forcing one hundred thirty million men to live as BARE BRANCHES. Chinese scientists race social upheaval. Agents scour the globe to harvest cells. In America they hunt for Sally Luck. We dispatch a single agent only. Preferring close quarter combat to gun fights, Jillian defiantly recites Aeschylus and Shakespeare amid feats of arms.. Cai Ling Luk was raised a princess by Chinese aristocrats whose fathers fled China when Mao Zedong defeated the nationalists in 1949. Her aloof parents allow her to choose her college. She moves to America and changes her name to Sally Luck. And then, angry over pain and the foolishness of men, Sally choses hysterectomy as elective surgery, and then spends the rest of her life regretting it--until technology and global politics intervene. Soon, her children will number in the millions and she will fall a year behind in naming them, sorry for those with just a number. Jillian de Guerre lost her father when she was five. He was a professor at Syracuse University bringing his 35 undergrads back from Britain aboard Pan Am Flight 103 when the Arabs blew it up over Lockerbie. Now all grown up, it is normally the body-count that interests Jillian. She works alone. She doesn't like to share. The story mounts twin-scaffolds: A chronicle of wished-for love and busted love, of love postponed, and of love made pure by heat. And then, slipped among the pages like bookmarks, is a picture of the Lower Keys before Hurricane Irma wrecked them: its dive boat captains, its tiki bars, and adventure dives that the tourists never saw; in a land that's mostly sea; and in a sea that's mostly sky.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mike Kennedy
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311998354
• Artikelnr.: 47075648

Autorenporträt

A note to Kennedy's readers: "Like many of you, in former times I thought of myself as not merely awake, but vibrantly awake. I was wrong. Beginning in 2019 and connecting the dots as consciousness is wont to do, I began my Red-Pill experience. Recently, and to my amazement, I see that the writing of three of my novels was channeled experience. 'Mali' turns out to be a story of the Deep State. It was always, from the start, a story of the illusion of free will. 'Taggart' turns out to be a story of Trans-Humanism. And 'All Our Yesterdays' turns out to have been an unconscious metaphor of the inner sanctum of the Cabal and its malign design upon mankind. I have long known that my stories find me (and not the other way around). Two attempts at designing a story have both resulted in ten-thousand-word dead ends. I quote from Aeschylus (his work 'Agamemnon'): 'Pain, which cannot forget, even in our sleep, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our despair, and against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God.' And we remember that 'grace' is an unmerited consolation. Finally, I see that my 'message to the publishing world' (final paragraph below) recognized the sad fact that agents & editors have betrayed their intrinsic debt to western civilization and consciously work in thrall to the dark side. One should keep in mind that the root word for 'inspiration' is 'spirit' and so must ever remain experience beyond the five senses. I have always written about those things that you know, but do not know you know."

On a lighter note: "It is not too late to fall in love with language. You've just needed characters you wish you knew. I wish there were drawings, pictures, and maps in novels and short stories. Don't you? In the novel 'Mali,' a picture begins every chapter. So also, in these two anthologies. All in support of the magical movie in your mind. Go ahead and venture, 'It's showtime!'"

Indianapolis author Mike Kennedy described by Trident Media Group, saying: "Kennedy has a way with words. Readers attracted to Hemingway and Mailer will love Season of Many Thirsts [A novel brought to E-Books under the original title: REPORT FROM MALI]." Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says of the manuscript: "This is a potentially important and significant novel on many levels, including formally." Little, Brown says of the novel: "Our admiration for its ambition and the energy and high-octane force it applies toward these engrossing geopol...