As an author of four books on Amazon he is no stranger to self-publishing, but as of last December Charles Vella brought out the first book in his dystopian Police State of Anarchy series entitled Right of Passage:
Drones on the White House lawn. Government agents with an ear to your telephone. People not vaccinating their children because it isn’t natural. Where will it end?
Maybe in a Police State of Anarchy.
2065, two hundred years after the end of the civil war. Is it happening all over again? Don’t ask Adams. He doesn’t know. Doesn’t care. He’s marking time leading milk runs upstate for food. And forgetting. So he picked up that girl at Liberty Casino. He was just being a nice guy. Wasn’t looking to get involved with the police. And sure wasn’t looking to become the rope in a tug of war between the police and Homeland Security.
So who are these people and what do they want from Adams? Lead a cross-country caravan? The insurance companies killed those years ago. These days the only way across country is to fly, if you’re willing to risk the electric planes and being caught in a gun fight when some drunk isn’t satisfied with the service. So where did that Right of Passage on his screen come from? And why’re that cop Grillo and his trained monster of a sidekick stepping on Adams’s heels everywhere he goes? And if Grillo wants Adams to lead that caravan, who is it that wants to stop him? Whoever it is, he can change screen records and make people disappear from surveillance cameras. Not much doubt who that is, but in this game no one wears uniforms and the sidelines may be more dangerous than the field.
The only thing scarier than facing a lunatic is seeing him in the mirror. The only thing worse than a dystopian future is one that springs from the seeds of lunacy we’re planting today. The more things change the more they stay the same. And you call this progress?
Police State of Anarchy is a sketch of the kind of future we may be asking for. Are we ready for it?
Dystopic have been kindly provided with an excerpt of the novel that you can read below.
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RIGHT OF PASSAGE (Police State of Anarchy Book 1)
By Charles Vella
“On the Origin of the Species. Evolution?”
“Yes Adams. Evolution.” He set the book back down. “The original theory was fine as far as it went. But Darwin missed a key element, no doubt because he was from a class that didn’t interact with the police. And to be fair he wrote before the computer age when the full implications were much harder to predict. It’s rather like science fiction writers from the nineteenth century who described amazing machines that were entirely mechanical because they didn’t know about electronics. You see Adams, for hundreds of years now, people haven’t evolved alone. They’ve been followed. Do you know by what? No? The file Adams. The file has evolved with the human race, like a tail. A tail that you can’t see but that I can step on. A person’s file follows him everywhere. Everywhere. Before the computer it was limited by man’s limitations. The Gestapo and NKVD made what advances they could but were severely limited. Policeman needed to collect the information, write it down, store it. Over time it deteriorated. It was hard to find facts quickly as the number of files grew.” Blunt’s eyes brightened. “But all that changed with the electronic revolution. The longer you live and the more advanced the technology the longer your tail gets. And the easier to get a grip on it.” He reached his circled hands out in front of him and mimed pulling. “To pull it. Your file tells everything there is to know about you. More than you remember yourself. Sometimes things that you don’t even know. Everywhere you’ve been. Everyone you’ve seen. Everything you’ve done.”
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