The Broken Americans - The Broken Americans - E-book - ePub

The Broken Americans is a speculative history thriller driven by the question, "What if President Trump had successfully subverted the 2020 election?" Told through three intertwined storylines, this book analyzes what the true cost of a renewed American civil war would be, for the participants, the country, and the world. Fans of Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad will appreciate this contemporary narrative that toes the line between literary fiction and dark graphic novel, influenced by military sci-fi classics like Starship Troopers told with the grit of Anthony Swafford's Jarhead. Follow the inescapable currents of America's downward spiral after falling into a civil war, later known as the Decimation War, sparked by a disastrous military coup.
The story is guided by three suicidal Marine veterans shouldering the burdens of their violent indoctrinations preserving American freedoms as they search for a new, redeeming truth in the answers to their burning questions - What is family? What is love? For Oneself? For One's military brothers? For one's country? Sebastian Dent is a Marine OIF/OEF veteran enticed by his estranged military brother, Aaron Morson, into a reactionary government group known as the Decimated, formed to counter internal coups.
On their path to war, Sebastian begins to disassociate his brutal world into Dante's Inferno, as they descend from Arizona (Limbo) to confront his childhood demons in Mississippi (the Ninth Circle of Hell). His story is continued years after the war, where he must put aside war-time fallout with Aaron to transport their Decimated brother's corpse across a broken American landscape to his final resting place in California, marking Sebastian's ascent towards redemption as he strives to protect the next generation from the violent truths he can't seem to escape. Follow the political entrapments of Senator Joseph Taylor, up-and-coming leader of the new American right and co-chair of the Joint Committee for American Defense and Restructuring.
An outspoken leader condemning the heinous acts of the Decimated, despite his continuing compromises and growing dependence on the Decimated's unprecedented domestic martial influences as the new National Congress navigates treacherous unknowns during a Texan secession set to upset America's precarious peace and reignite a civil strife that has already cost millions of American lives.