Publisher's Synopsis
On the eve of a revolution, a Russian dancehall courtesan and a half-Hebrew paramedic share a moment. Their forbidden passion occurs amid a full blown slave uprising in the United States of America. In a danger filled four acts, this novel traces the seven year separatist war centered in Brooklyn and the hope or carnage of their affair. For even in the newly liberated Brooklyn Soviet, there is great trouble brewing. Drones patrol the skies along the border and a new mile-high-wall has been built to prevent the traffic of people and contraband over the East River or Strong Island Sound into the United American States. Home to three million "stateless citizens"; this wild coastal gangland and nearly lawless rebel Free State is dominated by Irish and Italian municipal unions, Postsoviet and Haitian mobsters, Islamists, Messianic Hebrew cults, Black Nationalist guerrillas, Gypsy Partizans and a highly organized Afro-Irish-Israeli underground network known only by its clandestine acronym: the Z.O.B. This is the story of how the Great Revolt began, how the Wild West Indian Federation was born and of defiance of newly freed slaves in the face of an empire.
