The Alcatraz Coup: A Prequel To The Red Dog Conspiracy [Paperback]

Every story has its beginning. From New York Times and USA Today best selling author Patricia Loofbourrow ... a prequel to the Red Dog Conspiracy. How far would you go to save your city from a madman? Fifteen hundred years after the Catastrophe, Inventor Benjamin Kerr built the domed neo-Edwardian city-state of Bridges in the center of the former U.S. Three hundred years later, Bridges is in trouble. King Taylor Kerr is elderly, the economy is struggling, and corruption is rampant. Forty years ago, a fence was built outside of the Pot of Gold  the city proper  to keep out the growing numbers of homeless. This number has increased to over a hundred thousand, whole generations knowing nothing else but life in the tent camps. Acevedo Spadros is a high school Bridges history teacher. His former student Xavier Alcatraz is head of the Guard. When King Taylor is assassinated by his son Polansky Kerr, who then plans to slaughter everyone outside the fence, Acevedo and Xavier plan the unthinkable: to bring down the Mad King. Emerging after its stint in the science fiction/fantasy box set Dark Humanity, The Alcatraz Coup becomes available for the first time as a stand-alone novella. Set 100 years before the Red Dog Conspiracy series, this dark, violent story brings you a collision of science fiction, steampunk, and war fiction with a story reminiscent of Black Hawk Down, set in an neo-Edwardian suburbia gone mad.