Agenda 21

Informationen zum Autor Glenn Beck! the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of TheBlaze television network! has written thirteen #1 bestselling books and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction! nonfiction! self-help! and children’s picture book genres. His recent fiction works include the thrillers  Agenda 21 !  The Overton Window ! and its sequel!  The Eye of Moloch ; his many nonfiction titles include  Conform !  Miracles and Massacres !  Control ! and  Being George Washington . For more information about Glenn Beck! his books! and TheBlaze television network! visit GlennBeck.com and TheBlaze.com. Harriet Parke is a registered nurse who specialized in emergency nursing and Emergency Department management. She has been published in the My Dad Is My Hero anthology! five Voices from the Attic anthologies (published by Carlow University! Pittsburgh! Pa.)! the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ! and Pittsburgh Magazine . She has received an honorable mention from an Atlantic Monthly student short fiction writing contest. She is a member of The Madwomen! a Carlow University writing group! and a member of Pennwriters. A wild peacock roosts on her deck anytime he chooses. Agenda 21 CHAPTER ONE They took Mother away today. I was on my energy board when they came. They didn’t knock. They just came in, men in black uniforms. Enforcers. I shut off my board and stumbled, hitting my hip against the metal sidebar. They didn’t say anything but held up their hands in a way that told me to stop and not come any closer. My meter was only halfway to the finish point. Mother had gotten off her sleeping mat when she heard them at the door and stood there, head down. How tangled her hair looked, gray and lifeless. They asked which sleeping mat was hers. She pointed to mine. I started to say, “No that’s mine,” but she gave a little shake of her head so I kept quiet. One of them rolled up the mat and put it under his arm. The other one tied short, dirty ropes to Mother’s wrists. I knew not to cry in front of the Enforcers but tears burned hot behind my eyes. Mother hadn’t done her duty walking since I was paired with Jeremy two days ago. She had stayed curled up on her sleeping mat, her face to the wall, her back a row of bony knobs. I had walked both my board and hers those two days so our meters would register at Central Authority for two people. That was the only way to get food for both of us. Maybe they could tell one person was doing two different meters because the meters registered at different times. Who knows? I’ve seen too many things over the almost eighteen years I’ve spent on this Earth to ever doubt the Authority’s power. Mother went quietly, shuffling her feet across the rough concrete floor. She looked back at me and said, “I’m sorry I didn’t teach you enough . . . . I love you.” There was a scratchy sound to her voice as though the words were stuck inside her. “I’m sorry, Emmeline.” I didn’t know what she meant and I didn’t have time to ask. The Enforcers, one on each side of her, tugged on the ropes. She looked weak and shrunken between them. I watched through the window slit as they pulled Mother up the steps of the bus-box. How trapped she looked sitting between them. Six other men, large and muscular in orange uniforms, stood in their harnesses. The Transport Team. The bus-box lurched forward as the men began walking in unison. I watched until it disappeared around the curve past our Compound. Then I ran after he...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Glenn Beck, Harriet Parke
• Edition: Pocket Books USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 20.11.2012
• EAN: 9781476716695
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-1669-5
• Pages: 384
• Catégorie: Littérature > Suspense