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Crisis Point
Why is rolling news showing footage of US Marines holding off an armed assault on the White House?
Where have the Secret Service taken the President and why has the Vice President invoked the 25th Amendment?
Why has US Space Command mobilised its strategic reserve and put it into orbit?
Crisis point is a stand alone novella set in the same world view as Perfects (due 2015) and tells the story of a military conspiracy reaching to the top of the US Military to subvert the democratically elected US President in an attempt to stop budget cuts that will half the size of the Department of Defense. This is a future where some Americans have realized that spending their blood and treasure as the world’s policemen hasn’t been effective and have decided that someone else should take a turn.
In the middle of the 21st Century Mike Duff is a career officer of US Space Force. The military are getting cut, and the defense contractors aren't happy about it. Mike is a patriotic American, loyal to the Constitution and proud of his country, but he doesn't like the increasing mix of Church and State that he sees the politicians bringing.
Where have the Secret Service taken the President and why has the Vice President invoked the 25th Amendment?
Why has US Space Command mobilised its strategic reserve and put it into orbit?
Crisis point is a stand alone novella set in the same world view as Perfects (due 2015) and tells the story of a military conspiracy reaching to the top of the US Military to subvert the democratically elected US President in an attempt to stop budget cuts that will half the size of the Department of Defense. This is a future where some Americans have realized that spending their blood and treasure as the world’s policemen hasn’t been effective and have decided that someone else should take a turn.
In the middle of the 21st Century Mike Duff is a career officer of US Space Force. The military are getting cut, and the defense contractors aren't happy about it. Mike is a patriotic American, loyal to the Constitution and proud of his country, but he doesn't like the increasing mix of Church and State that he sees the politicians bringing.
- GenresScience FictionFiction
46 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2013
About the author
James Kemp
4 books48 followersI'm a Glaswegian, after decades living in Surrey, I am now back in Scotland, but in the East. I have always written stories, since I was a boy, and I've managed to carry that on even though I did a science degree and then work for the UK government. More recently I finished a degree with the Open University, which included creative writing.
Most of what I write is science fiction, and fantasy. The pandemic slowed me down, for two reasons, One is that I usually wrote on my commute. The walk to the station gave me the time and space to think about the next bit of the story and rehearse it in my head. The train journey was an opportunity to type that up. The second reason is that I've moved 500 miles north of the urban sprawl that was greater London into the green belt of Surrey. Now I'm in proper farming country that edges onto wilderness. There's a rugged landscape with traces of a rich history overlaid on a now de-populated space. I'm sure some of that is bleeding into what I write now.
Most of what I write is science fiction, and fantasy. The pandemic slowed me down, for two reasons, One is that I usually wrote on my commute. The walk to the station gave me the time and space to think about the next bit of the story and rehearse it in my head. The train journey was an opportunity to type that up. The second reason is that I've moved 500 miles north of the urban sprawl that was greater London into the green belt of Surrey. Now I'm in proper farming country that edges onto wilderness. There's a rugged landscape with traces of a rich history overlaid on a now de-populated space. I'm sure some of that is bleeding into what I write now.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
July 23, 2013
I would like to thank James Kemp and Goodreads for sending me a copy of 'Exodus: Mike's Thread'
A conspiracy is born within the government to maintain the integrity of the Constitution of the United States as the separation of Church and State crumbles.
The action kept me reading on till the end. It is an interesting take on a scenario where religious fundamentalism reaches the highest office. I, for one, look forward to how other characters will be interwoven into the plot.
A conspiracy is born within the government to maintain the integrity of the Constitution of the United States as the separation of Church and State crumbles.
The action kept me reading on till the end. It is an interesting take on a scenario where religious fundamentalism reaches the highest office. I, for one, look forward to how other characters will be interwoven into the plot.
July 9, 2013
interesting book, in the future it could become reality, I could not stop reading until the end... US Space Command is interesting place to work... I love the way story presented... a must read book for 2013...I like it...
May 11, 2018
Very engaging read. It reminded me of Tom Clancy, both in the way it was written and by how much I enjoyed it. It hooked me from the beginning and was over too quickly. I look forward to a sequel.
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November 27, 2022Crisis Point tells part of the story from the point of view of one of the characters, it isn’t his whole story, but tells a large chunk of it and ends on an appropriate point.
The gist of the story is that Mike Duff is an officer in the US Space Command, and one of the insiders in a conspiracy within the US military to circumvent the inconvenient parts of civilian control. He tells his story in the first person. It is set in the same universe as Perfects, and there are also a couple of other novellas written but unpublished.
The gist of the story is that Mike Duff is an officer in the US Space Command, and one of the insiders in a conspiracy within the US military to circumvent the inconvenient parts of civilian control. He tells his story in the first person. It is set in the same universe as Perfects, and there are also a couple of other novellas written but unpublished.
April 21, 2024
Exodus: Mike’s Thread tells the story from the point of view of Colonel Mike Duff, who is an officer in the US Space Command, and one of the insiders in a conspiracy within the US military to circumvent the inconvenient parts of civilian control. He tells his story in the first person.
This is a thriller in the guise of military science fiction, set in the mid-21st century against a backdrop where politics has turned against science and the rational folk that makes things work are finder it harder to get by.
This is a thriller in the guise of military science fiction, set in the mid-21st century against a backdrop where politics has turned against science and the rational folk that makes things work are finder it harder to get by.
October 12, 2013
I was lucky enough to be a first read on this one. It was a hard book to get into at first with the hubby always interrupting my reading. Once I settled down to read, it became hard to put the book down. The author had me feeling I was right there hoovering in the story. That's why I can only rate this as a three star. Unfortunately I was disappointed how the book ended. Or perhaps I just missed the authors message. Sorry.
September 15, 2013
A complete re-write of the original short story excerpt from Exodus. Now placed to follow on from Perfects & Imperfect where it widens the world and tells how the US Military create a nuclear crisis that has a world-wide impact and de-rails the plans of Pandora & Charlie at the end of Imperfect.
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