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The great divide [Hardcover]

Frank M Robinson (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)


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1982
In the hallowed halls of the capital, some who have sworn to preserve our nation's union are secretly plotting its demise ... and they are willing to kill to achieve their goals.

The country has been split into two distinct factions over energy - "the haves" (those states that are fuel self-sufficient) and "the have nots". The inept execution of a flawed foreign policy in the Middle East has resulted in an Arab-backed oil embargo of the United States.

Now the country is in the grips of the most severe winter in years, and rationing has led to unrest and rioting in the streets ¿ and certain politicians and business power brokers are ready to make a move.

As masses freeze in Chicago and the northeast, fuel-sufficient sunbelt conspirators seek to separate themselves from the rest of the nation, make their own foreign policy, and govern by their own rules¿and to do it they will resort to blackmail, bribery, and even murder.

The Constitution is only a stumbling block, and it can be amended.

The United States will be united no more.
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"A thriller about the distant past and terrifying future, set in a vividly drawn San Francisco... Riveting." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The Great Divide is a political thriller set several years into the future at a time when a Middle East oil embargo is disrupting the country¿The authors have so cleverly extrapolated from trends and political figures of the present and recent past that the reader easily suspends disbelief" The action is fast paced, building to a cliffhanger ending"
-- Library Journal

" ¿painfully real and more than a little frightening" --Chicago Tribune Book World

" ¿a suspenseful, exciting tale centered on the U.S. as it totters on the brink of civil war"
--Duluth News Tribune

" ¿an action packed, fast paced thriller that reads like today's headlines" -- Tampa Tribune & Times
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 303 pages
  • Publisher: Rawson, Wade; 1st edition (1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0892561653
  • ISBN-13: 978-0892561650
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,472,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars You won't be able to stop reading this, August 3, 2004
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A gripping political thriller, this book is disturbingly timely. Opening with the US crippled by A Middle East oil embargo precipitated by an incompetent president who bombs Iraq...a nation deeply divided...and the story unfolds from there. All this and a charming love story, too. I'd advise waiting to start reading until you have time to finish it in one sitting, because you won't be able to stop.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbound, July 30, 2004
This book held me in place for three and one-half days and I hated for the story to end although I loved the ending. This
is a believeable blow by blow story from the perspective of
the insiders trying to overthrow the United States government
and those defending it. The authors' use of dates and hours
for each step of the way holds the reader in a state of tension
and expectation for hours at a time. It is a story of power
lust, academic corruption, misuse of police power and unbridled
ambition versus a death defying sense of loyalty and high
intelligence on the part of the protagonists defending the
Union in the twentyfirst century. John Mason Hart
Houston, Texas
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Echoes of the Manchurian Candidate, July 24, 2004
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This political thriller is eerily on target--an oil crisis, challenges to the constitution, powerful people playing by their own rules to destroy democracy as we know it.

I loved this gripping book.

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