"...into this battle to the death between two radically, violently opposing social systems step two Native Americans. They wander the desperate dereliction of Brooklyn and Queens, deeply shocked by the transformation in the island. The population has flown; buildings and factories lie in ruins; and block after block of houses are being bulldozed to make way for new ‘community villages’ and vast new forests...”
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Mehtanawack
Terrorist bombs blast the new casinos at La Guardia. USAF jets roar low over a devastated Queens. Riots and tear gas fill the ravaged streets of Park Slope. Warships blockade the East River. National guardsmen and marines assemble in Manhattan and Rhode Island, preparing to invade as the President and Governor of New York warn of another Cuba – all because, thirty years earlier...
Synopsis
The scenario of the US Supreme Court handing over Long Island to those Native American tribes that once had sole jurisdiction over the island might seem unlikely. But into this battle to the death between two radically, violently opposing social systems – one that wants golf courses, gas guzzlers and the American Dream, and the other that rejects ‘progress’ and wants to return the island to its pre-colonial past – step two Native Americans: eco-journalist John Kellis and photographer Jessica Begay.
Kellis is summoned from India by a coded message from his grandfather, who is head of Mehtanawack’s Intertribal Council. Begay is summoned from a photo assignment in up-state New York. They are met at JFK Airport by some secret police, but evade them and wander the desperate dereliction of Brooklyn and Queens, deeply shocked by the transformation in the island. The population has flown; buildings and factories lie in ruins; and block after block of houses are being bulldozed to make way for new ‘community villages’ and vast new forests....
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...in a dramatic decision, the Supreme Court found in favor of the Native Americans of Long Island and turned the whole island into a reservation called Mehtanawack.
Into this battle between violently opposing social system step John Kellis and Jessica Begay, sent to the island on an undercover operation, but for which side? And are they even on the same side?
This is the story of two people falling in love within the clash of two very different social systems. It is a battle to the death that will shape the future of America, so the stakes are enormous.
Genre: Political Thriller
Extent: 620 pages
Cover Price: $24.95
Special discount price: $19.95
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“I shook my head.
How did they manage
to transform the
island back into such
a peaceful,
rural paradise? For that’s how it now seemed.
A paradise.”
