Proverb: A Story of the Second Civil War By Brian McCracken
Samir Nashwari is a high school student living in Wilmington, North Carolina in the summer of 2025. Olivia Olly Vasquez is helping her mother raise her two younger brothers in a parched Las Vegas, Nevada. Both of their lives are overturned by dramatic political upheaval in the United States, what becomes a new civil war. Five years later, Samir and Olly are both leaders of Special Operations military units. Samir fights for the Republicans as a Mako, a Navy SEAL-like amphibious commando. Olly fights for the Democrats as a Phantom, a technologically invisible sniper. Having never met before, their fates are intertwined when it's discovered that the founding documents of the Old United States have been stolen from the Democratic capital, Washington, DC. As the two heroes separately strive to unravel the mystery, they interact with their spirited teams to uncover a conspiracy involving not just America, but the entire world as they know it. Proverb: A Story of the Second Civil War
REVIEW: PROVERB : A STORY OF THE SECOND CIVIL WAR by Brian McCracken
I've been reading apocalyptic literature since the 1950's--you might say I grew up on it--and I had pretty much surpassed the easily scared stage [except for EMP s, meteor/asteroid impact, and alien invasion]. Then I start reading PROVERB: a whole different story! The first chapter SCARED the daylights out of me, so did the second chapter, and on and on. Guess it's one thing to read about historical wars, or massive assaults somewhere else; but in your own country, in your own era, frightening. [Shiver!!] Brian McCracken, a young debut novelist, has delivered a highly talented, very vivid, terrifying possibility. I think we ALL ought to read this--and weep. Proverb: A Story of the Second Civil War