The Opium of the People

<p>The U.S. government has been overthrown! After a near-miss of a giant comet the American people fall under the control of a radical right-wing fundamentalist Christian government ruled by the Grand Patriarchs that slowly strips away their freedoms and establishes a rule of law that even Hitler couldn't have dreamed up. Forced into virtual seclusion Edward Silverberg a former professor finds himself on a path that will lead to either his destruction or the destruction of the Grand Patriarchs...or maybe both.</p>