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The Anarchists
After a failed coup, a revolutionary named Noor is exiled and sentenced to die. Vowing to rule earth, but separated from his lieutenants, he is forced to use human beings instead.
In the year 2050, tragedy strikes. Harper Lowe loses her son’s father to a last-minute decision. A drunk Damario Coley is maimed in a freak accident. Quinne Ruiz is assaulted and arrested, and Teanna Kirkwood witnesses the death of her daughter.
Weeks later, the alluring Kareza Noor, CEO of the Genesis Institute, pilots a psychological experiment, the “Begin Again” initiative. It affords Harper, Damario, Quinne and Teanna the opportunity to erase a past regret. One of them must be forced into it.
All solve their former problems but create new ones. Noor, now the Prime Minister of Italy, is plotting a dangerous end-game – if they try to stop him, they will be treated as terrorists.
The Anarchists answers the question “what if?” with high-stakes action inside of a page-turning, reality-twisting adventure. Readers will fall in love or hate with the textured characters, who confront their flaws and try to determine what is “the right thing to do.”
In the year 2050, tragedy strikes. Harper Lowe loses her son’s father to a last-minute decision. A drunk Damario Coley is maimed in a freak accident. Quinne Ruiz is assaulted and arrested, and Teanna Kirkwood witnesses the death of her daughter.
Weeks later, the alluring Kareza Noor, CEO of the Genesis Institute, pilots a psychological experiment, the “Begin Again” initiative. It affords Harper, Damario, Quinne and Teanna the opportunity to erase a past regret. One of them must be forced into it.
All solve their former problems but create new ones. Noor, now the Prime Minister of Italy, is plotting a dangerous end-game – if they try to stop him, they will be treated as terrorists.
The Anarchists answers the question “what if?” with high-stakes action inside of a page-turning, reality-twisting adventure. Readers will fall in love or hate with the textured characters, who confront their flaws and try to determine what is “the right thing to do.”
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First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Brian Thompson
8 books13 followersWith eight novels in print, including his highly-successful science-fiction teen series, Reject High, Brian Thompson continues to shape his career as a storyteller who fuses high-concept plots with down-to-earth characters. As a child, Brian could always be found drawing superheroes or etching out action stories in a notebook. Leaning on his experience as a well-respected journalist and writer and with his love for science fiction classics, Brian formed Great Nation Publishing, LLC. – an independent publishing company aimed at promoting creative projects with integrity. Its published works include historical fiction novels The Lost Testament (2010), and The Revelation Gate (2011), with the latter landing on Amazon's Top 80 List for Historical Fiction-Africa. With those works under his belt, Brian turned to his first love of science fiction and released the dystopian/speculative fiction work, The Anarchists (2012), and he introduced the Reject High series geared toward young adult readers. When he is not urging others to pursue their writing passions, Thompson chases his own: preparing for the summer 2023 release of The Doomsday Clock: A Reject High Legacy Novel, being a full-time high school English/Language Arts teacher, and co-running the day-to-day operations of Great Nation Publishing. A proud graduate of both Morehouse College and Temple University, Thompson and his family live in Covington, Georgia.
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September 3, 2016
I wrote it and I love it :)
April 9, 2012
MARK'S REVIEW
Brian used a much more detailed synopsis for his book review request than the one I used above, which is from Amazon. I'm glad I didn't read the entire detailed synopsis. It made the reading that much better. I'm the type of reader that would like to know just enough about a book or movie before going to read it or see it. Sometimes, though, a preview gives away too much, which threatens to ruin the experience for me. I don't think that would have been the case here, but not knowing where the story was headed made the experience very satisfying.
Brain got a little nervous when I told him that the prologue and first chapter(s) didn't make sense together. The flow of the story jumped after the prologue. Don't take that as a bad sign, though. I wanted to see how he would tie it back in. In fact, it wasn't until I approached the half-way mark that I began to understand what was going on.
For the first half of the story, I was wondering about the prologue and how the story of these various characters was going to tie in, and in the second half, I was curious about the ending, how the characters were going to resolve it. Based upon my knowledge of this sub-genre of Science Fiction, which I won't reveal here, the ending wasn't exactly unorthodox; it simply wasn't the one I was expecting, which was a nice change.
I highly recommend this book for any lover of science fiction. The writing was detailed, but not so much as to bog you down. In fact, I think the details were extremely well chosen. It seemed like I was in that future world, without having to read all the minute details that an author could have chosen to include.
As a final note, there was another side effect of not reading the synopsis in full: I didn't completely grasp the meaning of the title until the epilogue. Once again not a bad thing. In fact, it allowed me to have an "AHA" moment in the final pages, which is always nice.
Brian used a much more detailed synopsis for his book review request than the one I used above, which is from Amazon. I'm glad I didn't read the entire detailed synopsis. It made the reading that much better. I'm the type of reader that would like to know just enough about a book or movie before going to read it or see it. Sometimes, though, a preview gives away too much, which threatens to ruin the experience for me. I don't think that would have been the case here, but not knowing where the story was headed made the experience very satisfying.
Brain got a little nervous when I told him that the prologue and first chapter(s) didn't make sense together. The flow of the story jumped after the prologue. Don't take that as a bad sign, though. I wanted to see how he would tie it back in. In fact, it wasn't until I approached the half-way mark that I began to understand what was going on.
For the first half of the story, I was wondering about the prologue and how the story of these various characters was going to tie in, and in the second half, I was curious about the ending, how the characters were going to resolve it. Based upon my knowledge of this sub-genre of Science Fiction, which I won't reveal here, the ending wasn't exactly unorthodox; it simply wasn't the one I was expecting, which was a nice change.
I highly recommend this book for any lover of science fiction. The writing was detailed, but not so much as to bog you down. In fact, I think the details were extremely well chosen. It seemed like I was in that future world, without having to read all the minute details that an author could have chosen to include.
As a final note, there was another side effect of not reading the synopsis in full: I didn't completely grasp the meaning of the title until the epilogue. Once again not a bad thing. In fact, it allowed me to have an "AHA" moment in the final pages, which is always nice.
February 29, 2012
If you are tired of the everyday, lighthearted, flim flam stories, then this is the book for you. Just like a great steak dinner, this is meaty, juicy with tons of twists and turns, and at the end of the meal, you'll have no choice but to send kudos to the chef. If you have never read a book by Brian Thompson, and even if you have, you have got to let yourself take this adventure. I promise you'll be shocked at where you end up.
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