Stephen Coonts

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts delivers another nail-biting thriller starring CIA Director Jake Grafton and his right-hand man, Tommy Carmellini. The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle. Afterwards, America will never be the same. Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos just before a presidential election. After martial law is declared and rioting begins, Grafton and Carmellini must risk everything to unravel a massive conspiracy and help a new resistance movement rise up against an unimaginable enemy…

Liberty's Last Stand

Melody Izard

So far, reading this book is like reading the Facebook posts of my right-wing friends. Help!!! I've been trying to convince myself to hide their posts and now I've agreed to read this???? I will soldier on for as long as I can.

I was contacted by the publisher to ask if I would like an advance copy of this book. I usually say no to unsolicited books. I have too many books that I really really want to read to read something that is not compelling. I glanced over the author's profile and for some unknown reason, said yes.

This was the most hate-filled, thinly disguised bit of political propaganda I have ever been exposed to. The story is just a collection of all the fantastical, ridiculous, hate-fueled, myths about our president the paranoid population has somehow bought into, strung together into a novel parading about as a patriotic truth. I certainly don't mind reading books that disturb me. I love a good controversial topic to shake up my way of thinking. But I wanted to burn this book when I was only a few pages in. Holy mother of Jesus I wanted to sink to the level of a pompous censor and destroy this piece of trash. But I didn't. I'm not sure what the heck I'm going to do with it. The vile thing is sitting on my floor collecting dust while I decide the best way to get it out of my house. But one thing I know. I will only take a give-away book if I have a reason to believe it is something that I want to read. One that I have asked for. And I have also taken the plunge and hidden all those facebook friends who have posted some of this same hateful rhetoric, who I should have hidden (or defriended) a long time ago.

Liberty's Last Stand

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