WandaCKeesey

The Last To Fall
By Anne K. Edwards
PUB: Twilight Times Books
ISBN: (13) 978-1-60619-018-0
ISBN: (10) 1-60619-018-0
Genre: SF/F
Binding: ebook
Price: $5.95
Release Date: February 15, 2008

You’ve heard the expression, “the world’s gone to hell in a hand basket”? Well I don’t know about the carrier, but the world has gone to hell, or at the very least its on its way.

Jeanne Foster, and her doomed friend Lester wander the smoke filled, polluted streets of Washington D. C. And they aren’t alone. Gangs of drug hunting thugs have no inhibitions, no regrets, but they do have needs. Needs that they satisfy as they please. No one is safe, certainly not Jeanne, walking the street of the dying city, alone and unprotected. After being attacked, Jeanne is taken to the hospital. Will she survive the city? The riots? Will she find her way to the Farm?

The police and hospitals have a daunting take to keep the peace and help the helpless. Many of their number have become as bad as the people they’re suppose to assist.

Even the “havers” with all their money and power, have problems. The new government wants what they have, and the government has the means to get what he wants. No one is safe.

The country’s President, Kale Ruther, a callous, ruthless man on the prowl for power, inherited the presidency when the newly elected candidate succumbed to Ruther’s scheme. But he inherited a country in peril; in a world gone mad. Could he bring it all back to the world power it once was? First he had to get rid at those who would stop his quest; the men and women of the country’s congress to name a few. He uses his long time friend, Walt Toplinski and Toplinski’s “special” troops to reach that goal, and to settle scores. But can Toplinski control the sergeant in charge of those troops? Sergeant Dunbar seems to have an agenda of his own, and that agenda is not a pleasant one. Has a new monster been released on the world?

Temporary alliances are formed, and broken. Trust is fragile. Violence is common. It’s a time when its important to make fast and accurate evaluation about the people you meet. You’ll find love, respect, hate, distrust, and decent in the pages of this story. Do all of the characters succeed in their goals? Who dies? Who will win the battle for survival?

Anne K. Edwards’ gritty tale of revolt a hundred years from now is far too believable. The characters intense, their struggles desperate, and the end of the book, but not the end of the story, is unpredictable. It not a pretty tale, but one to make you think.

Review by Wanda C. Keesey (author Lost In The Mist)