Resistance!: a novel (Crossings) - Softcover

Eick, Gretchen Cassel; Laiso, Gina; Tillem, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1958728330 ISBN 13: 9781958728338

Publisher: Blue Cedar Press, 2025

Synopsis

The National Front Party has just been elected in France and millions of immigrants flee to Europe to escape climate extremes and rising sea levels. As Russia tries to militarily rebuild its former empire, accurate and uncorrupted Artificial Intelligence is the best hope of preventing world war. In the midst of this perfect storm are two young Americans, one a young Black woman studying Artificial Intelligence at the Sorbonne and the other heir to the world's largest privately owned oil and gas company. The revolutionary changes occurring in France suck them both in. But are they on the same side?

When the National Front Party cracks down on dissent, trains youth to enforce its anti-democratic policies in France and beyond, and pulls France out of NATO, the two Americans must decide whether to join a homegrown secret Resistance that must involve students, immigrants, other nations, and even corporate leaders if it is to succeed. They must also decide how far to trust their hearts in this danger-fraught time.

A prescient, terrifying, and hopeful story of political intrigue, love, and possibility as the resisters forge their path learning from the past and determined to bring about a better future.

About this title

About the Authors

After working for fourteen years on foreign and military policy on Capitol Hill, D.C., Eick moved to Kansas, earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Kansas, and taught history at universities in the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of eight books, two nonfiction histories/biographies and six novels. Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007/2023) won the Richard Wentworth Award, Hall Center Award, and the William Rockhill Nelson award. They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story (University of Nevada Press, 2020) won the Coffin Award. Her six published novels are The Set Up, 1984, Finding Duncan, Maybe Crossings*, Dark Crossings*, and Where is Ana Amara? and Resistance!* (Resistance! is the third in her "Crossings" Series along with the two asterisked titles.) She teaches at Wichita State University, travels extensively, and writes alongside her husband, poet Michael Poage.

Respected for her stunning interiors and covers, Gina Laiso has produced outstanding books through her company, Integrity Productions, for several decades.

Laura Tillem has served as managing editor of Blue Cedar Press for a decade, helping authors strengthen their books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Cedar Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1958728330
• ISBN 13: 9781958728338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336