If you’re looking for winter pursuits or distractions, The Territories of the Dúns is worth a visit. You might also want to check out the Kingdom of the Great Lakes – but only with security accompaniment. And when you come in from the blustery elements, I hope you lose yourself in the pages of The Dúns.
It’s the not-so-distant future in the Michigan-Ontario region where three underground communities are newly venturing above ground to revive the earth and re-establish themselves.
In one of these communities, a delusional tyrant, following the script of The Book of Esther, is forcing the other communities to strive to outwit him. The story provides intrigue, romance, and good old-fashioned entertainment. After all, you’d expect no less when the communities are an island monastery, an indigenous community and a business conglomerate gone bad!
In the Kingdom, General Haz of the Citadel rigidly controls the people of Shushan while plotting to conquer the regions beyond his borders. Goaded on by his Governors, he pursues the script of Esther to its violent climax. With the ominous thirteenth day of Adar fast approaching, Lady Esther recites her lines midst terror and tears while Intelligence forces scramble to rewrite the outcome.
Meanwhile in the Territories, a quiet monastery and an indigenous settlement desire only to live in peace. Under constant threat from the Citadel and surrounded by the Lawless of the Wastelands, Abbey Trádún and DúndirkaNoka are neither naïve nor defenseless. Lurking in subterranean hangars, deadly Waterbugs and Airbullets wait expectantly for the right time to challenge the Citadel’s fierce Dragonflies.
Published in 2013, the book could be eerily prophetic of today’s political climate.
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