Category: Fiction_

Copyright/published Year: 2008 by Scribner

ISBN: 9781416537656

Binding: Cloth

Description: In the second book of Ferrigno's spectacular Assassin Trilogy, ì Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic ì America, now a divided blood-soaked dystopia. Will he survive? ì Can America ever be unified again?

The year is 2043. New York and Washington, D.C., have been ì leveled by nuclear bombs. New Orleans is submerged beneath fifty ì feet of water and treasure hunters scavenge its watery ruins. The ì United States no longer exists, and in its place two new nations ì maintain an uneasy coexistence.

To the west stretches the Islamic Republic, seemingly governed by ì a moderate president but hollowed from within by the violent, ì repressive Black Robes, a shadowy fundamentalist group intent on ì crushing all those who do not follow Allah's path. In this ì frightening world, freedom is controlled by the state, and ì non-Muslims are either second-class citizens, hidden underground, ì exiled, or executed.

To the east and south lies the Christian Bible Belt, itself torn ì by conflict from warring factions, each claiming to be more ì righteous than the others. Meanwhile the former United States is ì being nibbled away at the edges: South Florida, known as "Nuevo ì Florida," is independent; the Aztlán Empire, formerly Mexico, ì encroaches from the south; and Canada has laid claim to huge ì swaths of territory along the United States's former northern ì border.

What stability exists between the warring empires is threatened ì when the president of the Islamic Republic discovers that a Bible ì Belt warlord, known simply as the Colonel, is searching for a ì superweapon hidden inside a remote mountain decades earlier by ì the old United States regime. Rakkim Epps, retired shadow ì warrior, is sent on a perilous mission to infiltrate the Belt and ì steal or destroy the weapon. Accompanying Rakkim is Leo, a naive ì nineteen-year-old whose technologically enhanced brain is crucial ì to their success.Together they sneak through the Belt, a lawless ì territory where a bloodthirsty, drug-addled militia prepares for ì the End-Times.

When Rakkim and Leo finally reach the Colonel's mountain, Epps is ì forced to rely on his shadow warrior's ability to kill any and ì all who would halt his quest. Opposing him is the Colonel's ì enforcer, a sadistic, carbon-skinned killer named Gravenholtz, ì and the Colonel's wife, the alluring, sexually rapacious Baby, ì who wants -- and gets -- more of everything. Meanwhile, the Old ì One, the ancient and immensely rich Muslim fanatic who seeks to ì rule both American nations, plots his attack from the safety of ì his ocean liner. Rakkim Epps, he realizes, must be stopped, ì controlled, or killed.

A terrific stand-alone read, Sins of the Assassin is a cinematic ì feast of action and plot, and verifies Robert Ferrigno's Assassin ì Trilogy as a monumental imaginative work of suspense.

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