Sins of the Assassin
Category: Fiction_
Author: Robert Ferrigno
Copyright/published Year: 2008 by Scribner
ISBN: 9781416537656
Binding: Cloth
In the second book of Ferrigno's spectacular Assassin Trilogy,
Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic
America, now a divided blood-soaked dystopia. Will he survive?
Can America ever be unified again?
The year is 2043. New York and Washington, D.C., have been
leveled by nuclear bombs. New Orleans is submerged beneath fifty
feet of water and treasure hunters scavenge its watery ruins. The
United States no longer exists, and in its place two new nations
maintain an uneasy coexistence.
To the west stretches the Islamic Republic, seemingly governed by
a moderate president but hollowed from within by the violent,
repressive Black Robes, a shadowy fundamentalist group intent on
crushing all those who do not follow Allah's path. In this
frightening world, freedom is controlled by the state, and
non-Muslims are either second-class citizens, hidden underground,
exiled, or executed.
To the east and south lies the Christian Bible Belt, itself torn
by conflict from warring factions, each claiming to be more
righteous than the others. Meanwhile the former United States is
being nibbled away at the edges: South Florida, known as "Nuevo
Florida," is independent; the Aztlán Empire, formerly Mexico,
encroaches from the south; and Canada has laid claim to huge
swaths of territory along the United States's former northern
border.
What stability exists between the warring empires is threatened
when the president of the Islamic Republic discovers that a Bible
Belt warlord, known simply as the Colonel, is searching for a
superweapon hidden inside a remote mountain decades earlier by
the old United States regime. Rakkim Epps, retired shadow
warrior, is sent on a perilous mission to infiltrate the Belt and
steal or destroy the weapon. Accompanying Rakkim is Leo, a naive
nineteen-year-old whose technologically enhanced brain is crucial
to their success.Together they sneak through the Belt, a lawless
territory where a bloodthirsty, drug-addled militia prepares for
the End-Times.
When Rakkim and Leo finally reach the Colonel's mountain, Epps is
forced to rely on his shadow warrior's ability to kill any and
all who would halt his quest. Opposing him is the Colonel's
enforcer, a sadistic, carbon-skinned killer named Gravenholtz,
and the Colonel's wife, the alluring, sexually rapacious Baby,
who wants -- and gets -- more of everything. Meanwhile, the Old
One, the ancient and immensely rich Muslim fanatic who seeks to
rule both American nations, plots his attack from the safety of
his ocean liner. Rakkim Epps, he realizes, must be stopped,
controlled, or killed.
A terrific stand-alone read, Sins of the Assassin is a cinematic
feast of action and plot, and verifies Robert Ferrigno's Assassin
Trilogy as a monumental imaginative work of suspense.
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