Redemption
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 8:30pm
One of the things that I've come to really appreciate in the time I've been working with John is just the diversity of the regulars here at C&L. There are some incredibly smart and interesting people that really just enhance the quality of this blog with their comments and perspectives. One of those people is Lee Jackson, who very early on started sending me post ideas and tips (I realize now a lot came from research for this book). While the name might be unfamiliar, Lee is a very recognizable voice on C&L. More on that later.
Lee has a new book out, Redemption, published by St. Martin's Minotaur, and it touches on themes that should be familiar to anyone on this blog. From the description:
Set a few months or a few years from now, novelist Lee Jackson’s portrait of America is a very familiar one. People carry their ID cards wherever they go. Gas is expensive and the value of the dollar has dropped so far that even rural areas like Redemption, Montana, have thriving black markets, barter economies, and high unemployment. But otherwise, life in the small town goes on day by day. And terrorism is a constant worry across the country, even in a town three thousand miles from New York City with a population of only three hundred.
Ben Trinity hitchhikes into Redemption during a snowstorm with a story about a parole-mandated job on the West Coast that he’s never going to make. His story earns him a job as a handyman at Carlene Ryton’s roadside diner and a place to sleep, and once he clears it with Homeland Security—the top law enforcement agency in the United States—he tries to settle in as best he can. But hiding in plain sight is no easy task for a convict, much less a terrorist, which is what the government says Ben is, and it’s only a matter of time before the locals find out who he is.
Never tried, let alone convicted—due process has been suspended in the United States—Ben contends that he is innocent, and he may be, but does he have enough strength and conviction left to prove it?
Lee Jackson’s engaging thriller is both a powerful cautionary tale and a mesmerizing portrait of an unlikely hero.
Amazing how it doesn't sound as far-fetched as it did seven years ago, isn't it? So we at C&L are thrilled to support Lee with Redemption and we encourage you to purchase the book (mine should be here soon). Another one of our regulars will be reviewing the book and we'll be scheduling our very first book salon with the author to discuss in the coming weeks (we want you to have a chance to read it first!)
Any guesses as to the cyber-identity of Lee Jackson? She's our very own "Voice of Reason," NonnyMouse. :) Congratulations, Nonny...er, Lee.
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Sounds compelling. I'm eager toread it.
Congrats, Lee/Nonny!
:)
Golly, that's amazing! What an accomplishment. Well done!
damn, I missed the first post on my own book. LOL!
Great accomplishment nonny mouse!
Wow..very cool.
Congratulations Lee.
Please don't tell George Bush, he thinks we bloggers are naive.
Yes, that's right...George W. Bush thinks WE are naive.
mmmmKay.
jack jett
Congrats, nonny mouse! I'm going to buy your book. Hope it make the best seller lists.
Yeah nonnymouse! Intriguing, can't wait!
Congratulations on publishing your book. If you come back to North America to do an author tour, try to avoid flying in via LAX.
Congratulations Nonny! :)
That's fantastic, nonny mouse! Congratulations! I'll gets me a copy!
Congrats Nonny - looking forward to reading about myself in a few years' time.
Nonny also write mystery novels, check her out on Amazon.
Everyone buy the hardcover so goes into paperback fast. It'll be cheaper for me, and nonny mouse will be rich enough that it won't matter to her (kidding :) ) Congratulations!
Boy, I wish I could get a signed copy...hint, hint.
Congrats from NW Ohio
It is a great idea for story. If any studio had the guts to make a movie out of this they should get on the ball and contact Nonny. Too bad it would not be made (well) before the election.
Thanks, all. I'm off for a few hours to - I kid you not - a monthly Author's Society meeting, but I'll be back later. I'm really pleased and quite honoured Team C&L are helping to launch my novel, and hope it's as much fun for y'all to read as it was for me to write.
I for one willl be buying that book. I read the first 4 or 5 pages and I'm hooked now I want more :P
Congratulations, NonnyMouse!! Best wishes for success to you!
That's just cool as hell. I'll buy it.
Hiya Nonny -
Congratulations! This is really cool. I just read the excerpt on Amazon. It's a page-turner, and it's very cinematic. It could be a film. I really wanted to know what happens next.
I hope it sells oodles and scads.
Whew...Redemption sounds like it will become the new 1984.
Congrats, Nonny. Sounds very compelling. It's on my 'to buy' list when I go to B&N tomorrow.
Lee's book sounds really good
Sounds like a great book that anyone who is living here in the States can identify with. I'm already intriqued by just this little summary of the book. Thanks for telling everyone about it.
Very nice.
Very scary.
Congratulations, Nonny!
So now C&L needs a signed copy contest or something, methinks...
This is just like one of those literary salons, only different! Congrats Nonny.
read the book, save the world ;)
Congratulations Nonny Mouse. I'll look for it. I'm busy with "Shock Doctrine" at the moment (People think I'm crazy or taking Poli sci classes because I use a highlighter). Your book is now at the top of my list.
nonny mouse @ 19:
Somehow, I don't think that's possible, :/ It's too real to be "fun".
Congratulations nonny mouse! Can't wait to read it!
Wow, this has been very nice - some names I know, a lot I'm not familiar with, but all lovely. And as Nicky B says, there'll be a salon type thing in the near future so people who've read the book (or want to read the book) can ask me questions that I'll do my best to answer, looking forward to that!
Damn, nonny. Check YOU out. Go, Nonny! Go, Nonny. It's your birthday. well, perhaps not. Congrats and tons o' success to you!
Congratulations Nonny! Best of luck.
If you do go on a book-signing tour, don't let yourself get blindsided by a Fox News ambush.
Congrats Nonny Mouse!
Congrats Nonny, I don't know you, but I admire you and your perspectives. I'll look for your book, I always like a good thriller...
JD
Cool. Someone I sort of almost kind of know is a real author!
Seriously, congratulations and I hope you have great sales success because it sounds like a story for the times. Maybe it will help push some waverers over the fence.
You go Lee!
Congrats.
Who knew? You're across the water, aren't you?
I'd ask who your agent is, but instead I'll tastefully (tastelessly?) ask if you'll do a blurb for my book someday. Would you do a blurb for my book, someday? (Warning: that means you'd have to read it--unless you wanted to pull that "I couldn't put it down" [because I never picked it up] crap.)
Regardless, cool, I'll check it out.
Congrats! But I thought Nonnymouse was a woman. Oh well, doesn't matter either way.
I can't believe that even knowing that the CIA trained almost every terrorist who attacked you then perhaps it is not you who is fighting a foriegn enemy... Perhaps there is a domestic one who has far better reasons for doing what itis doing...
Terrorist, like Communism, is a Red Herring.
... uh, nonny mouse is a woman. So's Lee Jackson. :)
Why is the hair on the back of my neck standing up? Because, as you say, it surely doesn't souond as far-fetched as it once did. Sad.
I've got another new post about this book up on my little blog, Mouse Musings, if anyone would like to leave a comment there. http://nthemouse.blogspot.com/ Thanks again, to everyone.
How much for the Film Rights?
God damn it. I missed this here a couple days ago. I just checked in on Nonny’s blog and saw it there. It is so hard to keep up. Do you think I don’t have anything else to do? Shut up!
Congratulations Nonny!!! I will buy the book. My god why wouldn't I?
Damn I’m pissed off that I missed this post when it first went up! :lol:
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