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Prevention Force
This book was released in July 2022 under its new title THE LOVE POLICE.
Gluten intolerant prevention officer Liesl Healy fights crime with her partner Spoct, a germophobic, partially robotic, talking German Shepherd, in their flying convertible, using futuristic, nonviolent, restorative police methods of the year 2121.
When attacked by a knife wielding subject, they immobilize him not with bullets, but fast hardening glue. Like all police officers she is a medical doctor and cures his schizophrenia by replacing an atom in his brain. She performs psychotherapy, gives him cash, and teaches him the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork.
Statistical analysis concludes 3% of the responsibility for the crime is unaccounted for, which is considered acceptable, but Healy is a tireless stickler for detail and keeps digging. When Spoct’s meta-analysis confirms her suspicion, she becomes obsessed with finding the culprit.
Using the science of forensic statistics she traces the crime to Washington DC, but the FBI suddenly takes over her case, and she is ordered to go on vacation. Liesl’s bipolar disorder is flaring up, making her paranoid and manic. She suspects a cover up and pursues the case on her own.
The trail leads to the Congressional Ethics Committee, headed by totally corrupt Senator Connmann, a 6 foot tall lizard with slithering tongue and his bootlicking sidekick, Senator Lindsey, a weasel who scurries around his feet in a three-piece suit. She disguises herself as an oil tycoon so Spoct can record her giving Connmann a bribe. The senator retaliates by having them committed to hospital for the criminally insane, where Healy is to be lobotomized and Spoct disassembled.
With her hardheaded spirit and Spoct’s hacking skills, they evade killer drones, and use a math professor’s formula to uncover a conspiracy that is no less than earthshaking.
Read more on the PREVENTION FORCE by Scott Talbot Evans WEBSITE
Gluten intolerant prevention officer Liesl Healy fights crime with her partner Spoct, a germophobic, partially robotic, talking German Shepherd, in their flying convertible, using futuristic, nonviolent, restorative police methods of the year 2121.
When attacked by a knife wielding subject, they immobilize him not with bullets, but fast hardening glue. Like all police officers she is a medical doctor and cures his schizophrenia by replacing an atom in his brain. She performs psychotherapy, gives him cash, and teaches him the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork.
Statistical analysis concludes 3% of the responsibility for the crime is unaccounted for, which is considered acceptable, but Healy is a tireless stickler for detail and keeps digging. When Spoct’s meta-analysis confirms her suspicion, she becomes obsessed with finding the culprit.
Using the science of forensic statistics she traces the crime to Washington DC, but the FBI suddenly takes over her case, and she is ordered to go on vacation. Liesl’s bipolar disorder is flaring up, making her paranoid and manic. She suspects a cover up and pursues the case on her own.
The trail leads to the Congressional Ethics Committee, headed by totally corrupt Senator Connmann, a 6 foot tall lizard with slithering tongue and his bootlicking sidekick, Senator Lindsey, a weasel who scurries around his feet in a three-piece suit. She disguises herself as an oil tycoon so Spoct can record her giving Connmann a bribe. The senator retaliates by having them committed to hospital for the criminally insane, where Healy is to be lobotomized and Spoct disassembled.
With her hardheaded spirit and Spoct’s hacking skills, they evade killer drones, and use a math professor’s formula to uncover a conspiracy that is no less than earthshaking.
Read more on the PREVENTION FORCE by Scott Talbot Evans WEBSITE
171 pages, ebook
About the author
Scott Talbot Evans
10 books18 followersHis work appears in Amazing Stories, Weekly Humorist, Shoreline of Infinity, Creepypod, and Crimeucopia. He is a three-time finalist in the New Yorker cartoon contest. His novel The Love Police was released last year. He is working on his sixth book. For more info visit: https://scotttalbotevans.wixsite.com/...
His poems are published in Poetry Salzburg Review, Samjoko Magazine, and Straight On Till Morning.
He won the GEVA Theater 2 Pages/2 Voices competition and the Script Studio Scriptitude Competition.
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His poems are published in Poetry Salzburg Review, Samjoko Magazine, and Straight On Till Morning.
He won the GEVA Theater 2 Pages/2 Voices competition and the Script Studio Scriptitude Competition.
Say hi at https://bsky.app/profile/social-scott...
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May 21, 2021
This book was reminiscent of Ben Elton's style of writing, witty and satirical and totally taking the p@#$ out of society and social structures. Light-hearted, enjoyable with a great twist on who is running and defending the country! I particularly enjoyed the demonising of sugar.
July 23, 2021
If you want to see a different angle on an Orwellian plot, this book is it! By mixing satire with action and lighthearted comedy, Evans creates a really unique take on future society and Utopian power dynamics. You will certainly not be disappointed if you decide to pick it up.
December 13, 2020
Frenetic, creative and unique, yet evocative of Dr. Who, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams and Buckaroo Banzai, this tale of preventative justice is farcical, timely and interesting.
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