A novel about the struggle against I-69, the fight that Hugh Farrell and Tiga Wertz have been arrested over.
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Four hundred pages from a first time, self-published author on a political cause that he was personally involved in? Sounded like good getting-to-sleep material. Wrong. This novel
captured me with its intrigue and unfolding story line cleverly threaded with historical and current facts. It was a lesson in the ruthless means taken to squash political dissent and to under-mine the will of the people when that will does not fall in line with corporate interest.
As it became more and more clear that the intent of the novel was to educate the reader who might not know this history I worried that at some point the storyline was going to be subjugated to the education. I thought that at any moment I might be beaten over the head. Instead I found myself wanting to get back to the book to find out what happened next to Fionn (the tree-sitting main character), and the band of activist, anarchist, farmers, sorority sisters, sheriff and others who come together as a community. I found the information regarding how PR firms work, the methods of the FBI, the history of why we have highways instead of mass transit all played to the plot and not the other way around.
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