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"Those who like their dystopias especially gritty will want to take a look.”—Publishers Weekly
The Purge is here. New Orleans must die.
Long after the destruction of all electronic technology, the Bright Crusade rules the world as a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. Gabriel Troy is Lord of Order for the New Orleans Principality. For years, he and his deputies have fought to keep their city safe from the attacks of the Crusade’s relentless enemies, the Troublers—heretical guerillas who reject the Crusade’s rule and the church’s strict doctrines. As their crowning achievement, Troy’s forces capture the Troublers’ local leader. The city has never been more secure.
Alarming intelligence leaks from Washington: Supreme Crusader Matthew Rook plans to enact a Purge—the mass annihilation of everyone deemed a threat to the Crusade. Rook orders his forces to round up all but the blindly loyal and march them to New Orleans. Once the prisoners have been chained inside, the Crusaders will wall off the city and destroy the levees. The resulting deluge, reenacting the Biblical deluge of Noah’s time and the city’s devastation during Hurricane Katrina, will kill everyone inside.
Forced to choose between the Crusade and the city he has sworn to protect, Troy and five other conflicted conspirators gird for battle, fully aware that the looming apocalypse will demand horrific choices, test their faith, and require them to join forces with their sworn enemies.
"Those who like their dystopias especially gritty will want to take a look.”—Publishers Weekly
The Purge is here. New Orleans must die.
Long after the destruction of all electronic technology, the Bright Crusade rules the world as a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. Gabriel Troy is Lord of Order for the New Orleans Principality. For years, he and his deputies have fought to keep their city safe from the attacks of the Crusade’s relentless enemies, the Troublers—heretical guerillas who reject the Crusade’s rule and the church’s strict doctrines. As their crowning achievement, Troy’s forces capture the Troublers’ local leader. The city has never been more secure.
Alarming intelligence leaks from Washington: Supreme Crusader Matthew Rook plans to enact a Purge—the mass annihilation of everyone deemed a threat to the Crusade. Rook orders his forces to round up all but the blindly loyal and march them to New Orleans. Once the prisoners have been chained inside, the Crusaders will wall off the city and destroy the levees. The resulting deluge, reenacting the Biblical deluge of Noah’s time and the city’s devastation during Hurricane Katrina, will kill everyone inside.
Forced to choose between the Crusade and the city he has sworn to protect, Troy and five other conflicted conspirators gird for battle, fully aware that the looming apocalypse will demand horrific choices, test their faith, and require them to join forces with their sworn enemies.
Brett Riley is a professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada. He grew up in southeastern Arkansas and earned his Ph.D. in contemporary American fiction and film at Louisiana State University. The published author of a body of short fiction, and the ghost thriller, "Comanche," Riley has also won numerous awards for screenwriting. Riley lives in Henderson, Nevada.
"With the one-two punch of Comanche and Lord of Order, Riley has
established himself as an ambitious and versatile writer, and SF
fans, especially those with a dystopian bent, will certainly love
this one."—David Pitt, Booklist Magazine
“The character development is expertly handled and believable. Troy
and his deputies are deeply fleshed out and palpably conflicted,
and the thematic dive into faith and the corruption of trusted
institutions is pretty powerful stuff.”—Kyle Holl,
HorrorBuzz.com
"Mr. Riley, an experienced screenwriter, knows how to keep the
action rolling."—Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal
“Riley presents a convincingly bleak vision of the future in his
latest. Riley has a facility for fast-paced action that keeps the
pages turning. There’s plenty to keep readers’ attention and enough
questions are left open to make a sequel welcome. Those who like
their dystopias especially gritty will want to take a
look.”—Publishers Weekly
“A deftly crafted and inherently compelling page-turner of a read,
Lord of Order is a simply riveting."—Midwest Book Review
“The past is future in this sweaty, swampy, gun-slinging first
cousin to dystopian classics like The Handmaid’s Tale and
Fahrenheit 451."—Stephen Scott Whitaker, co-editor of The Broadkill
Review, and member of the National Book Critics Circle
“The resonance engendered by Atwood, Pullman, and now,
conspicuously, Brett Riley. They are prophets of the terrible
could-be. I was blown away by this book, and I want you to read
it.”—Paul Eberly, PaulEberly.com,
“Lord of Order is a thrillingly violent, dark and brutal story of
conspiracy and rebellion. Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian North
America of the future, it is part spaghetti western and part
thriller, mixed and painted onto a religiously-themed canvas and
influenced by current events."—Lee Doughty, Grimdark Magazine
“Brett Riley writes hard core action that should keep readers
turning his pages, his literary point the hypocrisy and perfidy of
extremist fundamentalisms that trample all freedom and
humanity."—Douglas Unger, author of Leaving the Land, and Voices
from Silence
“Through vivid scenes of battle and quiet moments of reflection,
this engrossing novel brings us to the heart of these internal and
external struggles and, ultimately, suggests a way toward
redemption."—Beth Castrodale, author of In This Ground and Marion
Hatley
“The writing, very to-the-point, without frills or unnecessary
ornaments, is really good—tight, straight, charismatic,
atmospheric, drawing me in and dragging me along in a relentless
pace through the whole book." — Dieter Moitzi Goodreads.com
“To save mankind, people of faith must risk their lives, and their
very souls. Lord of Order is a remarkable dystopian novel from the
imaginative author of Comanche." — A.D. Hopkins, author of The Boys
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