From the author of the modern dystopian classic, Hold Back This Day, comes Ward Kendall's most exciting and powerful novel yet...
Meet Garrick Fenstad-family man, father, dreamer. Author of a thousand page novel set to rock America to its core; a novel about a Race War set to tear the country apart and just a little bit too realistic for comfort. Then, on the day he receives an acceptance letter from a New York literary agency promising to find him a publisher, with all the fame and wealth that comes with it, a carload of Mexican gangbangers run him off the freeway into a concrete abutment at 75 mph.
The next thing Garrick knows is that he's waking up in a very strange room, very far away, and that he's not quite sure how to handle it. Especially since he's got a million other dead people to keep him company, including some of history's most notorious personalities, in a place that's just a little bit strange. But the eats are free, he doesn't have to pay a dime in rent, and he's got the prospect of eternity to look forward to. Until, that is, he's offered the chance to go back home, to everything he knew and loved, only to discover that his novel's been published posthumously and become a runaway bestseller; one that's set off a real-life race war that threatens to destroy all that Garrick Fenstad cherishes...including his two children...
What's a fella to do?