Review
... vital, gripping, convincing ... compelling enough you fear you're doing something subversive simply by reading ... an engrossing read.... --
The Podler Book Review, June 7, 2007...Charles Sheehan-Miles is an exceptional writer... --
Midwest Book Review, September 2007...a taught, page-turning read ... unexpected, devastating, breath-catching, haunting end will leave you reeling... --
Crystal Reviews, July 2007...the blogosphere has gone wild over this book... It might scare you into doing something...for the nation, and for your future. --
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Hanchette, Niagara Falls Reporter, July 2007Nail-biting...this book isn't just literary popcorn - you'll be thinking of the issues and characters long after... a damn good book. --
Chris Gerrib (Author of The Mars Run), POD People, June 13, 2007This novel of America's future may be prophetic...It will disturb you...It should. --
Kenneth J. Bernstein, Daily Kos, June 25, 2007a fast, well plotted action story...can not put down --
Out in Jersey Magazine, August 2007
Product Description
A domestic terrorist attack evokes a violent and oppressive response from the U.S. government... a labor dispute ends in violence... a young boy lies dying of a rare disease with no hope in sight. When the conflict focuses on a small town in West Virginia, Ken Murphy, Iraq veteran and Lieutenant Colonel in the West Virginia National Guard, must find a way to protect his family and community in a world turned upside down. In a future America terrifying to behold, Republic evokes the specter of civil war in a world that is simultaneously familiar and changed beyond recognition.
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