Faction 9: A Novel of Revolution - Paperback

by James Firelocke (Author)

The Novel the Corporate Elites Don't Want You to Read

Welcome to the near future, an America ruled by sharks--the Wall Street kind. Greedy gangster bankers. Carnivorous corporate creeps. Fascist war profiteers who cruise the oceans of dark power with their bloody jaws wide open, escorted by scavenger politicians nibbling at their scraps.

The billionaires live in luxurious depravity, while regular citizens work their fingers to the bone for nothing. And when the people cry out for justice, the politicians just laugh--all the way to the bank.

But new predators are stirring in the sea. These new hunters are young, cunning, and agile, with nothing to lose and only freedom to gain. Their motto: Hatred of greed is the salvation of love.

And their mission? Taking out the sharks, starting with a billionaire so racist, deranged, and corrupt that he just might become the next US president.

They are Faction 9. They are everywhere and nowhere. And they are the only thing the plutocrats truly fear--because all the riches of hell can't buy them off.

But the rebels have an almost impossible task ahead of them. The entire world is subdivided into nine "Pharmatainment Zones" which answer to a Politburo of Global Plutocrats: North America, South America, Russia, Sino-Japan, Oceania, Indo-Pakistan, Greater Arabia, Greater Africa, Europe, and the Lunar Company.

The US military has been completely privatized and the highest governing body in America is the Chamber of Commerce, which receives its instructions from a secretive global organization called the Billionaire's Guild. Law and order are maintained by the National Police and the heavily armed "Warforce" wing of the FBI. The US Security Agency keeps tabs on citizens to prevent dissent. But most people are so zonked out on "Pharmatainment Tech" (including virtual reality games, interactive security dramas, and spirituality pills) that there is little organized resistance to the world Corporatocracy.

Political life is dead, and basic freedoms are long gone--most human beings don't even realize that they were sold down the river by their politicians a long, long time ago.

However, not everybody working for the Oppressors is content. Jack Tone, a desk officer at the Manhattan Field Office of the US Security Agency, is fighting depression, though he's not sure why. One day he injudiciously agrees to attend a meeting of the "Friendly Neighborhood Political Discussion Group," only to find out that it is really Faction 9, a tenacious band of offbeat revolutionaries.

They have committed themselves to the assassination of a psychotic, narcissistic, and delusional billionaire who is hell-bent on achieving world domination in a way that is inventively, brutally insane.

The only thing more brazen than this plot is Faction 9's own assassination scheme. And they need Jack Tone to bring it off.

This is the world of Faction 9: A Novel of Revolution, a dystopian thriller whose feverish prediction of an America gone haywire is actually less unbelievable now than even a few years ago. Pray that its unhinged vision of our planet's future remains safely in the realm of fiction