Bøger af Rick Mitchell

It has been fourteen months since shots rang out during a White House ceremony. An American president is dead, and the world still believes it was the act of a single disillusioned soldier. Only a handful of people know the truth; and neither side is ready for it to be exposed. A conspiracy theory surfaces which forces an all-out search for its author. Both camps eager to learn if the traitor is one of their own. Secret Service Agent Pat Drice, and his team, are again called upon to head off the coming carnage. It's a race against the clock, and the only chance of finding the conspirators rest on their uncovering the theorist who opened the cage.

At the country's main desalination facility, an Iranian chemist uncovers a water molecule never before detected. Unsure if the molecule is a byproduct of the desalination, or a microorganism left unfiltered during the process, he injects the tainted water into lab rats. A soldier, just back from deployment in Afghanistan, murders his young wife, and takes his own life. The investigation leans toward PTSD, but Agent Emily Watts is not convinced. In Jordan, a CIA operative is dead, and the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is missing. During the rescue, the team uncovers a terror cell; a splinter of a once powerful ISIS group. Its leader, an American jihadist, was reportedly killed years earlier. A plan backfires and the team is left bloodied and battered; one member never to fight again. In the end they will find there is more than one ghost returning from the ashes.

Includes the plays: "Shadow Anthropology" (a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan), "Through the Roof" (a Faustian trip through the social history of 'natural' disaster in New Orleans), and "Celestial Flesh" (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church).

Bertold Brecht was an important dramatist/director/theorist of the 20th century. This play focuses on Brecht's life in America, where he resided from 1941 through to 1947. Brecht features as the main character and the play is also Brechtian-influenced. Endnotes and appendices are included.