Blood Zero Sky

The current social and economic unrest in the United States and throughout the world will make this work of dystopian fiction instantly relatable to readers on a personal level. One step at a time, our society approaches the chilling reality painted by Blood Zero Sky, as evidenced by the following facts:

Initiatives to privatize government functions are intensifying: from the proliferation of charter schools and the increased use of mercenary military contract companies to the Republican push to privatize Social Security. The U.S. government bought huge interests in several large corporations during the TARP bailout and gave away billions of dollars in cash and subsidized loans to others, further blurring the already disappearing line between the government and corporations. The advent of "too big to fail" corporations has resulted in the end of competitive capitalism— and ushered in an era of corporate despotism. Recent Supreme Court decisions, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission and SpeechNow.org vs. Federal Election Commission, have opened the floodgates, allowing super-PACS to use unlimited corporate money to further corrupt the United States electoral process. The Occupy protest movement and others have begun to recognize unchecked corporate greed as the greatest enemy of humanity and to organize against it.

In the same vein as Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, and other well-known dystopian novels, Blood Zero Sky is a dire warning about the dangers of our current political and economic trend, expertly detailing the consequences of our society's failure to take peaceful action now to regain the power of the people.

lood Zero Sky has a compelling cast of characters, including:

N-Corp: One of two corporations that employ and govern every citizen on earth, N-Corp is ruthless in its drive for ever-increasing profit. As long as its workers are producing, the Company provides them with generous luxury. For those who are deemed unprofitable, however, life and liberty are as precarious as a stock-market rally.

The Protectorate: Formed by George Washington in 1783, the Protectorate is the secret fourth branch of the U.S. Government, created to defend the America's democratic system against any threat—including, now, the unbridled and mindless greed of the capitalist system run amok.

May Fields: The privileged daughter of N-Corp's CEO, May is a capable and intelligent young woman who has every imaginable luxury at her fingertips. But May Fields has a secret: she is gay. This lifestyle, along with most other deviations from the norm, has been declared a workplace distraction and hence is banned by the Company. May must choose whether to use her personal strength to defend a system that gives her material wealth at the cost of her own identity or to risk it all in the fight for something better.

Jimmy Shaw: N-Corp's master of propaganda, the world-famous TV evangelist preaches a brand of distorted Christianity that encourages N-Corp's debtor-workers to stay the course—and to eschew "unprofitables" and other sinful wretches who violate the Company's H.R. guidelines.

Jason Fields: N-Corp's CEO and May's father, Jason Fields is the man Fortune Magazine once called "Mr. Profit." Formerly charismatic and brilliant, Fields has lost himself in a maze of drugs, women, and warped ideals as the Company he created became too large to be controlled or even understood by any one man.

Ethan: The mysterious leader of the band of rebels known as the Protectorate, Ethan has the skills of a gunslinger, the vision of a renaissance thinker, and the bravery to go toe-to-toe with the Company's Black Brands. But will even Ethan's brilliance be enough to defeat the most powerful fighting force ever assembled?

Randal: May's best friend and confidant, Randal is a worker at the Company's Cranton Facility, a think-tank where a crew of hand-picked super-geniuses cranked up on mind-enhancing drugs provide the Company's brain power. But for all its glamour, Cranton is hiding a few dark secrets—and Randal is too.