By Taylor Caldwell
within the middle of Philadelphia, rebel Andrew Durant has been nursing a festering rage. And he’s no longer by myself. via underground networks, he’s discovered himself between a mystery millions, construction a military known as the Minute males. They’re readying themselves for struggle to reclaim what used to be America.
within the country referred to now because the Democracy, self sufficient idea is something of the earlier. The structure is waste paper. A conscienceless president has been appointed through the military—for existence. the govt. has co-opted farmland plants. voters are divided among sessions: filthy rich enterprises and the destitute. parts of the rustic devastated through conflict or usual catastrophe stay unchecked. On behalf of nationwide defense, buddies are urged to secret agent on each other. Exposing those people who are undemocratic is legislation. And all dissenters are eliminated.
Durant, the selected agent for the poverty-stricken rural Democracy, reveals himself more and more remoted and afraid. Mobilizing revolutionaries has develop into a perilous tactic; the Minute males have their very own traitors, infiltrators assigned to undo every little thing Durant and his males are scuffling with to overcome. Now, the rebels have purely their ideals left to trust.
a gorgeous dystopian imaginative and prescient within the culture of George Orwell’s 1984 and Ayn Rand’s Anthem, The Devil’s Advocate is writer Taylor Caldwell’s “tour de strength” (Kirkus Reviews). greater than a half-century after its unique e-book, this “courageous publication” is timelier than ever (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
This e-book positive factors an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell together with infrequent pictures from the author’s estate.
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