Switzerworld

by S.G. Collins

It’s been 42 years since the Swiss took over the world. Almost everywhere, people are living in peace and plenty. Almost, not quite. Ugly conflicts keep sprouting on different continents, with petty demagogues and patriots fomenting breakaway states.Kuli Ché reports on these scattered rebellions for the prestigious Savit’s journal. Her travels brush her against both the heartless and the kind. There’s Khasan Asadullin, leader of the army for Bashkir independence. Aleksandr Grankin, who would annihilate the Bashkirs and erect a new Slavic state. Stratford Stowe, the Idaho separatist planning a war to restart America. And Ecuba Jones, retired captain in the Abolition Command, who spent her life fighting to eradicate slavery worldwide, and is now passing memories to her clever young housekeeper, Iris.Then there’s the mysterious doctor, Perchten Blau, who Kuli suspects may be a professional assassin. They keep meeting by accident, and a quiet lust rises between them. It’s Perchten who leads Kuli into the darkest secret at the heart of the the one story that must never be told.

272 pages, Paperback

Published August 8, 2020

About the author

S G Collins is a writer and small-time filmmaker living in Amsterdam. He was born in 1958 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and lived in Brooklyn, Buffalo and Boston before emigrating to NL in 2003. He makes movies, music, paintings, essays and fiction.