Turkey Shoot: He might not be the terrorist you expected - Softcover

Dutton, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642372951 ISBN 13: 9781642372953

Publisher: Perfidy Press, 2018

Synopsis

Winner of the 2019 Courage in Fiction Award from Independent Publishers of New EnglandIT’S OCTOBER 2015. Meet Mahmoud al Ramadi, 23, a bitter displaced Iraqi who unexpectedly becomes a terrorist. Fresh from battling ISIS in Syria, he’s sent to float to Greece as a refugee. There, in gritty Piraeus, he adopts terrorism—or more precisely, terrorists adopt him. The ambitious operation his new comrades are plotting will, he’s informed, decimate the power elite and nspire revolution around the globe. Having vowed payback for war crimes that orphaned him, the devout Mahmoud accepts the mission as his jihad. His thousand-mile odyssey from war-torn Mosul to strife-ridden Athens and part way back tests his metal, his wits, and his abiding faith. You’ll find memorable characters, tense action, straight and gay romance, ideological and other altercations, and ingenious improvisations in both the real and virtual worlds in this gripping, one-of-a-kind thriller. How you’ll feel about their rogue operation and its dénouement depends on who you are and what you stand for, but it could be complicated. All that Mahmoud experiences edits his articles of faith and just might edit some of yours.

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When erstwhile geek Geoff Dutton abandoned his career as a technical communicator, he reformed himself by unlearning expository writing and struck out to write whatever suited his fancy. Having spent the prime of his life telling computer users what they should and should not do, he made up for lost time by peering into the dark side of high tech to expose those who deploy it as a weapon of societal destruction. Aside from revealing chicanery at progressivepilgrim.review and counterpunch.org, the project closest to his heart has been birthing the novel Turkey Shoot, which too enters dark digital recesses that a master hacker then proceeds to compromise. His years of observing liberation movements empowered Geoff to craft a believable cast of radical activists and convincingly animate their interactions. His early days as an urbanologist and cartographer equipped him to vividly portray cities and landscapes far from home. But what most moved him to complete the three-year project was pent-up outrage over the sorry plight of refugees from war zones. Displaced by homegrown bullies and gratuitous military adventures that shattered their lives, they become objects of fear and loathing. That some turn to violence ought not to surprise. Turkey Shoot turns the genre inside out to reveal what motivates so-called evildoers to confront empire and injustice. Call it literary blowback. Find it at online bookstores everywhere and at Perfidy.Press. When erstwhile geek Geoff Dutton abandoned his career as a technical communicator, he reformed himself by unlearning expository writing and struck out to write whatever suited his fancy. Having spent the prime of his life telling computer users what the should and should not do, he made up for lost time by peering into the dark side of high tech to expose those who deploy it as a weapon of societal destruction. Aside from publishing his troublesome findings at progressivepilgrim.review and at counterpunch.org, the project closest to his heart has been birthing the novel Turkey Shoot, which also explores dark digital recesses, only from a black-hat perspective. Being a long-time student of the politics of liberation helped Geoff to craft a convincing cast of radical activists and animate their interactions. His early days as an urbanologist and cartographer equipped him to limn vivid portrayals of cities and landscapes far from home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Perfidy Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642372951
• ISBN 13: 9781642372953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384