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The provocative, incendiary military thriller -- now in paperback!Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission ... but then Danny's gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd, and by the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead.The president wants the soldiers arrested. The governor swears to protect them. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a provocative plot that asks what happens when the states are no longer united, DIVIDED WE FALL is Trent Reedy's very timely YA debut.
Series: Divided We Fall Trilogy (Book 1)
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books; Reprint edition (December 30, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545543681
ISBN-13: 978-0545543682
Product Dimensions: 1 x 5 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
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"Divided We Fall" combines suspense and intrigue in a fast-paced riveting novel that begins in Freedom Lake Idaho. The story introduces the reader to seventeen year old Private First Class Daniel Christopher Wright who joins the Idaho National Guard never expecting to face action until after he's finished high school. Called to Boise with his unit to help suppress a riot, he fires an accidental shot that not only has bullets flying and blood being spilt, but unleashes events that ignites the tension between State and Federal governments and has the country plunging towards civil war.Trent Reedy sets the stage for this exciting story in an atmosphere where jobs are scarce, unemployment and gas prices are high, and the Federal government is imposing a new ID card to replace social insurance cards. Upset about this incursion on their rights the Idaho government has nullified the implementation of the cards. When a riot breaks out at the Capitol building and Daniel's unit is called up the teen never expects to start a chain reaction that will have dead and wounded littering the streets.The plot quickly heats up as events unfold that have the President threatening an already volatile political climate and promising the indictment of the soldiers involved in the shootings without knowing the facts. Although the main theme deals with the repercussions of a political power struggle and its impact on the country, it touches on deeper issues like Constitutional rights and freedoms, the abuse of media networks, journalistic sensationalism, judgement without facts and misuse of power. Heightening the realism of this innovative story the author weaves in news flashes, social media exchanges and radical posters.
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