AMERICA IN EXILE
“Democracies don’t always die in bed. Sometimes they're executed.”
AMERICA IN EXILE
“Democracies don’t always die in bed. Sometimes they're executed.”
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About the Book
In a fractured near-future United States, a former Navy nurse just wants to keep their daughter alive and off everyone’s lists. Instead, they are dragged into a covert world of militias, breakaway states, and governments that call war crimes “policy.” Our protagonist is forced to choose between silence and truth, and becomes the one witness nobody can fully control. The book asks a simple, ugly question: when your country breaks itself on purpose, where do the exiles go?
The Comps
If the stark humanity of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the moral weight of Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds, or the lived-in collapse of Station Eleven stayed with you, America in Exile is in that lineage. It’s for readers who want boots-on-the-ground realism, political fallout that feels uncomfortably plausible, and characters who are trying to stay decent when the rulebook’s already on fire.
About the Author
C. S. Jones is a nurse, writer, and activist with four decades of experience in automotive shops, financial IT, and frontline healthcare. An Air Force brat turned single parent, Jones writes about ordinary people trying to survive extraordinary systems. He lives in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.
This story came out of years in the trenches of healthcare and watching the country pull itself apart. If that’s your kind of nightmare, you’re in the right place. A limited number of first-run, signed novellas, will be made available directly from the author in the U.S. only at the time of launch.
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