About This Book
It is morning in America, many years in the future. As the
22nd century approaches, the United States and Canada have been
shattered by war and upheaval and have broken up into separate ethnic, racial,
and political enclaves. On the east coast a crumbling, bankrupt and tottering
United States government still holds a weak and impotent sway over a ragged
collection of tattered states and cities, but life is chaotic and plagued with
poverty, violence, and desperation. The entire Southwest, beginning with Texas
and extending westward to southern California and north as far as Utah, has
become the Spanish-speaking Mexican state of Aztlan. And in the Pacific
Northwest, from northern California on up to Alaska, a brutal fascist and white
supremacist dictatorship rules the Northwest American Republic.
Colonel Donald Redmond of the Bureau of State Security
(BOSS) is one of the Northwest Republics most ruthless and skillful political
policemen. Then on a bright October morning he is called into the office of the
State President, where he is given a top-secret assignment. A skeleton from the
bloody and treacherous days of the revolution against America is about to
emerge from the closet, and one of the most carefully guarded and suppressed
mysteries of that revolution may become public knowledge. That long hidden
truth may undermine the very moral and political foundations of the white
supremacist state. A womans life hangs in the balance, but possibly even the
fate a of a continent as well, as Donald Redmond and his partner Sergeant Nel
plunge into the past and seek for the answer: who betrayed the Olympic Flying
Column, and why?
In The Hill of the
Ravens, underground cult novelist H. A. Covington offers us a grim and
chilling view of a future that may yet come to be.
