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The great divide

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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.

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

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.

I've finished reading The Great Divide, enthralled of course, and am now ready to send it on to a friend who will enjoy it quite as much, I guarantee.

But in view of my prejudice against the packaged penultimate-chapter detailed-penetration sex in so many current popular novels, I want especially to congratulate the authors on their handling of this requisite sex scene. Well and cleverly done!

A thriller with (too many!) parallels to what could happen in the not too distant future, depending on how the political winds blow... A great story and truly a page-turner!

I teach American Studies to undergraduates at a major state university. I'm going to recommend this book to all my students. Besides being thrilling and prescient, it educates the reader about the real threats to our democracy and about issues that permeate today's headlines:

*Campaigns that undermine the constitution
*Powerful cabals of government and business
*And an oil crisis

I loved this book!

I picked "The Great Divide" up in the summer reading section of my super market and read it straight through. Now I'm buying copies to give to friends.

It's a thriller about the future. But it's based on the things we are seeing today. Take a look at gas prices this summer! And don't forget the mess in the Middle East. Much more fun than reading about a comet hitting the earth. And much more to think about too.

This book is the window to the future of the United States, a blueprint of what are to come. Even though the book and characters are fiction, its circumstances and events are exactly being laid down the road and we're heading into that direction.

So consider this book a warning to our future. Read it before it may or could happen.

I could not put the book down. As the minutes ticked on into the early morning I kept telling myself one more chapter until I reached the end. It was the best book I have read in years.

Hard to believe that a book originally published 20 years ago could be so prescient. The parallels to the current political reality are uncanny. A great read!