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Blinding White Flash

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In this not-so-brave new world, Blinding White Flash has an intense pace, an elegant and minimal writing style, and searing action centered around a ragtag band of men protecting the life and country they love. J. Richard Wakefield is one of the most promising and startling new voices in action fiction.

"We march into the unknown" - some of the last words written to his adoring wife by the book's main protagonist, Ben. Somewhat ironic given that Wakefield integrates a number of society's current shortcomings to synthesize a future which is as depressing as it is possible and perhaps even predictable. The end of oil, the impact of religion, political and financial misdeeds and systemic failings all combine to bring about a series of frightening and deadly events as related primarily through Ben's eyes. An excellent first effort in the science-fiction/science-fact arena.