Born in Salt by Ted Weber / #Extract #BlogTour @RABTBookTours @savethereefs

On 12 juli 20217 juli 2021 door elsinWeber Ted - Born in Salt

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Fifty years after a coup replaced President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a fascist dictatorship, America is a land of hopelessness. Ben Adamson, a 19-year-old farm boy in southern Illinois, wants only to spend his time fishing and hunting. But when his dead brother demands justice for his suspicious fate in a colonial war, Ben and Rachel, his brother’s fiancée, are drawn into an underground revolutionary movement.

After staging a rally against the war, Ben and Rachel are arrested by the Internal Security Service, who have perfected the science of breaking people. Ben is given a choice: betray the rebels, including his best friend from childhood, or Rachel will be lobotomized.

Although traumatized and addicted to a powerful drug, Ben refuses to doom anyone he cares about. Can he find a third option? Can he free Rachel and strike back at the dictatorship, while dodging the suspicions of police and rebels alike?

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Extract

Paul fixed eyes on me. “You’ve got Lindbergh and Clark over the fireplace.”

“Not my say.” Pop and Grandpa worshiped President Lindbergh, National Leader for four decades until cancer took him. They even worshiped his cleft-chinned, slogan-spouting replacement, Andrew Clark.

“And if it was your say?” Paul asked.

I couldn’t help but feel bitter. “Why pay tribute to men who let the banks and grain buyers grind us down? And send people off to die when they’re needed here?”

Paul scooted the rocking chair close and spoke quietly. “There’s more of us than them. We could stand up and say no.”

Was he serious? “That what they do in Chicago?” I asked.

“Sometimes.”

“And I bet they get their heads kicked in.”

His eyes narrowed. “Nothing worthwhile’s easy.”

“Nothing’s easy, period,” Sarah added.

Thank you, Ted Weber and RABT Book Tours

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About the author

Ted Weber has pursued writing since childhood, and learned filmmaking and screenwriting in college, along with a little bit of physics. His first published novel was a near-future cyberpunk thriller titled Sleep State Interrupt (See Sharp Press). It was a finalist for the 2017 Compton Crook award for best first science fiction, fantasy, or horror novel. The first sequel, The Wrath of Leviathan, was published in 2018, and the final book, Zero-Day Rising, came out in 2020. He has other books on the way as well. He is a member of Poets & Writers and the Maryland Writers Association, and helps run writing workshops and critique groups. By day, Mr. Weber works as a climate adaptation analyst, and has had a number of scientific papers and book chapters published. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Karen. He enjoys traveling and has visited all seven continents.

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Author Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFreedomThorn

Twitter: https://twitter.com/savethereefs

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15548787.T_C_Weber

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t_warbler/

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