{"product_id":"2940158218897","title":"The Punishments","description":"\"Don't even begin THE PUNISHMENTS if you have to go to work the next day.\"\u003cbr\u003e                      Devin Hurd, a top ten GoodReads reviewer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Orwellian thriller – The heart-pounding story of a family after electing a demagogue and fundamentalists who adopt Biblical Law for moral punishments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      The economy sucks. Robots keep eliminating middle class jobs. Terrorism is a constant threat. The CIA and FBI can't stop terrorists. The bureaucratic IRS needs to be shaken up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Angry, fearful voters elect a narcissistic demagogue President and fundamentalist congress. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      The CIA, FBI and IRS are organized into a super-department, the Department of Virtue, with a mandate to bring the nation back to its Christian roots. Virtue's director institutes Biblical Law punishments as an example to those who break the commandments. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Only two US Senators -- and one mysterious woman -- can prevent a disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                  ONE VOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       One vote against the Citizens Justice \u0026amp; Security Act thrusts Senator William Thatcher and his family onto the dreaded 'enemies list' at the new Department of Virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Thatcher is a middle-aged husband, father, and terrorist war veteran. He's also an evangelical praying in vain for forgiveness for a love affair and secret war crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe teams up with his former lover, a sultry Moroccan arms dealer who needs to ransom her own daughter, held in Marrakesh, from a depraved monster – her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThatcher's wife, Carol, a blacklisted Planned Parenthood attorney, launches a fight against Virtue's proposed 'temporary' suspension of the 19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir eleven-year-old son, Billy, is caught in the crosshairs of the Director's attempt to control Thatcher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirtue's Director plans a worldwide spectacle to introduce Biblical Law (death by stoning for adultery, homosexuality, murder, idolatry, etc.). He also plans to explode a suitcase nuclear bomb in Manhattan to initiate the Rapture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThatcher's final act of self- sacrifice and love may or may not save his family and America from destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                  WELCOME TO TOMORROW","brand":"Boulder Digital Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166182588656,"sku":"2940158218897","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158218897_p0.jpg?v=1764110896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158218897","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}