Book Review: THE ARMY OF THE REPULIC by Stuart Archer Cohen
Book Info • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Picador (September 29, 2009) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0312429053 • ISBN-13: 978-0312429058 Steve’s Thoughts “The Army of the Republic”, Stuart Archer Cohen, is a haunting, emotional, and engrossing, thriller. American in the near future, after Iraq, Afghanistan, and Paraguay, water and other natural resources are being privatized. Security companies, working inside the U.S., with shadowy government connections, operate assassination squads and secret prisons to stifle dissent, paid by corporations using off-shore accounts. Voting is done entirely online, with massive fraud in every election. State elections have been postponed. And the media’s just another arm of the administration. Lando is a terrorist with the Army of the Republic, one of many groups in the U.S. Emily is a lawyer working for DNN, Democracy Northwest Network, which is a civil rights umbrella group in Seattle. Jim Sands, CEO of Cascadia, is building a water pipeline from Washington to Arizona, and has the ‘rights’ to the rivers and rainwater. Lando and Emily team up to halt Jim, whose company has hired Whitehall.
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