On Hurricane Island by Meeropol, Ellen

On Hurricane Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597093002)

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On Hurricane Island by Meeropol, Ellen

On Hurricane Island

$16.95
On Hurricane Island by Meeropol, Ellen

On Hurricane Island

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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As a major hurricane threatens the northeast, math professor Gandalf Cohen is abducted by federal agents and flown to a secret interrogation center off the coast of Maine. Austin Coombs, a young local resident, is a newly hired civilian guard assigned to the detention center. Henry Ames, a man of personal secrets, is the FBI special agent in charge of Gandalf's case and doubts the professor's terrorist involvement; Tobias, his second-in-command, disagrees, preferring violent interrogation. As the hurricane slams the shore, conflict detonates and each character must choose a side if they're to survive the storm. Told over the five days approaching the anniversary of 9/11, by varying voices on both extremes of the political divide, On Hurricane Island is both a fast-paced political thriller and a literary examination of the sociopolitical storm facing our society. How far should government go in the name of protecting our national security? What happens when governmental powers of surveillance and extra-legal interrogation are expanded? How free are we?

Author: Ellen Meeropol
ISBN-10: 1597093009
ISBN-13: 9781597093002
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By Ellen Meeropol
By Ellen Meeropol
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Ellen Meeropol's characters live on the fault lines of political turmoil and human connection. She is the author of one previous novel, House Arrest (Red Hen Press, 2011). A literary late bloomer, she began seriously writing fiction in her fifties. Her short fiction and essays have been published in Bridges, DoveTales, Pedestal, The Rumpus, Portland Magazine, Beyond the Margins, The Drum, and The Writer's Chronicle. A former pediatric nurse practitioner and part-time bookseller, Ellen holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

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