The New World($7.50Value)

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What happens when you finally make it home, only to find home is the most dangerous place of all? Joseph Lecourt has survived the trenches of the Great War, Turkish prison camps, African bush wars, and South American revolutions. For twenty-one years, he's fought as a mercenary across three continents with one goal: get home to Louisiana . But the America of 1938 is unrecognizable. The United States lost the Great War and splintered apart. The Confederacy has risen from the ashes. The Yankees are puppets of the German Empire. And between them lies a lawless no-man's-land where civilization has collapsed. When Joseph reaches New Orleans, he discovers his family is dead—massacred in the chaos that consumed the South. All except his brother Walter, the war hero Joseph thought lost in 1914. Walter is alive, but something has gone terribly wrong. Now he commands a private army in the wilderness of northern Louisiana, and the Confederate military wants him stopped. They're willing to pay Joseph to bring Walter back. By any means necessary. Joseph takes a gunboat upriver, sailing into a haunting landscape of abandoned cities and hanging corpses. The deeper he goes, the stranger things become. His brother's "army" attacks with savage efficiency. The few survivors speak of Walter in reverent, terrified whispers. And the Confederate general who sent Joseph may have his own deadly agenda. At journey's end, in the ruins of the plantation that was once his home, Joseph will discover the truth about what his brother has become—and the unspeakable "new world" he's trying to create. Perfect for readers who loved: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Apocalypse Now - Philip K. Dick's alternate history - Cormac McCarthy's brutal landscapes - Military fiction with psychological depth "The New World" is a haunting alternate history thriller that combines visceral military action with the creeping dread of literary horror. J.M. Russell delivers a tale of two brothers, a shattered nation, and the darkness that war plants in men's souls. This is not your grandfather's alternate history. This is darker. Content warning: This novel contains graphic violence, disturbing themes, and explores the psychological toll of warfare. Recommended for mature readers. "A fever dream of alternate history and family tragedy... Russell has crafted something genuinely unsettling." Scroll up and grab your copy today.