Friday Memes: The Truth Against the World by David Corbett

 Happy Friday everybody!

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Beginning:

With tens of thousands engage online - Hong Kong to Tel Aviv, Berlin to Atlanta - Georgie recites the litany of names, linking them to their atrocities:

• The corporate sociopaths who bankrolled the Capital bombing.
• The assassins targeting congressmen, governors, mayors.
• The freelancers murdering journalists, lawyers, academics.
• The infiltrators turning marches into riots, the arsonists torching courthouses --

Friday 56:

"As you can imagine," Agnes says quietly, switching the radio off, "I'm no fan of the federal government. Lazy loudmouths, lying thieves - and that's being kind. Like a lot of folks, I had hopes for this President -- self-made man, outsider, owes nobody nothin."

This week I am spotlighting a new addition to my review stack. The Truth Against the World by David Corbett came to me from a publicist's email and sounded intriguing enough to shoehorn its way onto my reading calendar. It was released June 1. Here is the description from Amazon:

A country descending into civil war...

A young artist forced to cross a nation in chaos to retrieve her stolen masterpiece...

Her guide and guardian-whose past remains strangely obscure...

Georgie O'Halloran created an artistic and literary wonder-only to have it stolen from her and published under the thief's name. Worse, it's the inspiration for a wildly popular video game that's become a favorite among the militants seeking to transform America through bloodshed.

To confront the plagiarist, Georgie must cross an entire continent erupting in violence. Her only companion: Shane Riordan, "Irish as wet grass," a fiercely loyal friend with a beautiful singing voice, an oddly encyclopedic memory-and impressive fighting skills.

It turns out, however, that Georgie isn't the only one on a cross-country quest. Shane is on a journey all his own, far beyond even Georgie's imagining.