Friendship City

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>It is 2058. NYPD detective Nick Garvey and Lenora Allison President of the battered and reeling United States are battling the many remnants of the murderous World Council. They must confront the forced introduction of a man-made killer plague and the destruction of the newly created Friendship City.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>President Allison succeeded in her fight to destroy the first plague only to learn a second more deadly one was imminent.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>Ishmael the mysterious new leader of the World Council has decided to destroy Friendship City an autonomous joining of Brownsville Texas and Matamoros Mexico where the citizens are developing their own protective Bill of Rights.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>President Allison asks Nick to fly from Houston where his daughter is recovering from a coma to the White House to help in the fight.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>Can the second plague be destroyed? Why is Friendship City spiraling into chaos? Can Ishmael be destroyed?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>Nick wrestles to find Ishmael but Ishmael finds him first. Capturing Nick President Allison Nick's family and all others in his way he forces them to sit in a circle surrounded by rifles.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>Ishmael starts his countdown.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>A familiar but sometimes-offbeat SF action thriller complete with a prospectus of good government.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>-KIRKUS REVIEWS</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>Perhaps the biggest payoff here is the 'BORO' or the Bill of Rights with Obligations.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(21 21 21 1)>-KIRKUS REVIEWS</span></p>