"Having now read both extant volumes in the The Nine Inch Bride series, I'm convinced of the author's bona fides as a cultural critic. He or she belongs in the company of Orwell and Vonnegut...." "A ticking of a book... by all that's Jeffersonian, it should strike fear into capitalist hearts! It deserves to be banned!" "For all its scorched-earth relevancy, remains an authentic, beautifully woven story-artfully written with an intensity that rewards the slow, careful reader." "A powerful, well-thought-out dystopian novel...destined to be a classic!" Understand the times in which we live through a daring fictional lens as relevant and hard-hitting as the best non-fiction and journalism in America today. This is not the galactic sci-fi you've come to expect. No wild-eyed future is depicted here. The series begins with imaginative storytelling where non-fiction thought leaders leave off, and goes on from there to provide a subtly harrowing preview of 'coming attractions.' The second book in this remarkably original series of near-future novels is ," where revolutionary meets 'The Empire' in a literary bonfire of western financial and military colonialism. Well-paced and utterly absorbing! continues directly from Ken and Sahar's fitful beginnings in Book One. Here they become odd partners in a duel of espionage against the all-powerful financier Wellingham and his consortium of governmental and corporate foreign policy interests. From the serenity of a beach house on the British Virgin Islands Ken journeys to terror-ridden South Asia as double agent for Sa within the Wellingham global empire. Serious, prescriptive fiction at its best!