Fire And Rain

by H.A. Covington

"CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 1970 - On a chilly autumn night in this chic and cultured Southern university town, two teenaged girls named Mary Jane Mears and Jeannie Arnold are brutally raped and murdered. The killers are never caught or identified, and over the years the case is buried in musty files in police basements.

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 1996 - Twenty-six years later, autumn returns to Carolina. So does Matt Redmond, a hardened and embittered veteran DEA agent who has left his career in Washington and come home to solve the killing of the two girls, one of them his high school sweetheart. In an ironic twist, Matt's pursuit of the secret of his first love's death brings him another. A proud and struggling single mother, Heather Lindstrom, comes to share his passion for truth and justice for the victims. But there is danger in disturbing the skeletons in Chapel Hill's academic closet, for behind the horrific 1970 slayings lies one of the dirtiest and most dangerous secrets of the Vietnam protest era. The most powerful men and women in the land want Matt Redmond off this case, and they will do whatever is necessary to stop him, including murder. The price Matt and Heather pay for the truth may be their own lives."

396 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2000

About the author

American National Socialist and novelist.

Covington was active in the NSWPP until it's leader Frank Collins was exposed as a pedophile of jewish heritage. Covington was also present at the Greensboro massacre. Where 5 communist got killed after attacking a joint klan demonstration.

Covington was one of the first white separatists who was active on the internet. Nowadays he runs project called Northwest Migration. Which has the aim to create a separate white state in the Northwest of the United states.

Reviews

[Steven Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I knew Harold when he was writing his Northwest novels, and helped to edit some of the manuscript copies, and I came across his other novels. This one is a murder mystery told from a right-wing viewpoint, but the politics takes second place to compelling and demanding characters and plot. There is also a supernatural element which influences both Matt Redmond, the hero, and heather Lindstrom, a new arrival to Chapel Hill.
Covington evokes the world of autumn in North Carolina, as well as loss and the need for justice. All the characters play a vital part in this, and Harold demonstrates a compassion and depth for human needs and failings that would surprise most readers.
There's also an autobiographical element here, with a nutty, mendacious father and insane brother.
Rozanov is a Russian who comes late in the book, but plays an important part, and gives Harold a chance to show off his Russian and understanding of both national character, and deliver some pithy comments on communism, good and evil, and innocent people getting caught in other's mechanations.
Harold used Matt and Heather in other books, and this was a compelling and enjoyable read, with lots of underlining. Pacing is very good, and a spiritual center to this book is comforting.
He also wrote an insightful and amusing essay on the perils of getting published, and why he went to self-publishing.

[Vagabond of Letters, DLitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS NEEDS TO BE MADE IN TO A MOVIE. NOW.

Quentin Tarantino directing: Pulp Fascism!

Especially the climactic showdown, complete with fedora, chomped cigar, and Rolling Stones soundtrack.

9/10

[Da1tonthegreat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fire and Rain is a murder mystery/political thriller with supernatural elements. It shares continuity with author Harold Covington's Northwest Independence series (excellent books, banned on Goodreads). Protagonist Matt Redmond, a former DEA agent who shares his creator's penchant for fedoras and hatred of the federal government, later appears in that series, having joined the resistance movement to turn the Pacific Northwest into an independent white ethnostate. This novel is very right-wing but not quite outright white nationalist. Redmond is disillusioned by the Clinton-era NWO's heavy-handed oppression at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The antagonists are Jewish former 60s radicals and communists. Unlike some other extreme right figures who tried their hand at fiction, Covington is actually a highly skilled novelist.

[Eric Oppen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harold Covington can, when he stays off his soapbox, write a very good novel. While some characters make an appearance later on in his "Northwest Volunteer Army" books, this can be read without worrying about those. He keeps his ideology out of things, and the result is a good, readable, plausible novel.