Forty Days and Forty Nights
Author | : Amber Edwards |
Publisher | : University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 1946160768 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781946160768 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS is a contemporary thriller set in the Mississippi River Delta. Thirty-nine days of torrential rain have swollen the river to the brink. Clementine Price-a young US Army Corps of Engineers officer born on a farm in the flood-plain of the Arkansas Delta-is battling to protect the people and homeland she loves from a catastrophic flood when she discovers that a richly funded domestic terrorist- hiding in plain sight in a beloved megachurch-has weaponized the natural disaster to inundate America's heartland. His plan to cleave the United States in half and found his own all-white nation is already in motion. Clementine has only hours to mobilize a make-shift army, engineer a strategy to turn nature's overwhelming force back onto the enemy, stop civil war, and save millions from drowning"--