Angels of Vengeance
Chapters (68)
Blurb
This is the New World. Born of chaos and blood. Remember that if nothing else.
Jed Culver, President Kipper’s sword and shield, knows that what is right and what is best are rarely the same thing. Can he serve the President by defying him?
Mad Jack Blackstone, rogue governor of the Republic of Texas. To some he is slowly but surely destroying the United States. To others, he is an American saviour.
Their time has come.
In New York, Caitlin Monroe’s one shot at vengeance may lie buried beneath the rubble of the city. Is her nemesis still alive somewhere?
Unknown killers hunt Lady Julianne Balwyn in the anarchic, violent freeport of Darwin. Can she survive long enough to save her friends?
Sofia Pieraro is all alone in the empty heart of a haunted land, revenge her only reason to keep moving.
After many years the long trail of the dead will bring them all together.
The final battle for America and the new world will not be fought with armies, but in the quiet and the dark, by individuals, driven towards vengeance and annihilation.
CONTENTS
Cover
Blurb
Dedication
Character List
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Two Months Later
One Year Later
Two Years Later
Four Years Later
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by John Birmingham
Copyright
Dedication
For Jane.
‘Beside every great man . . .’
Well, I’m not that great, but she is, and she’s always there beside me.
CHARACTER LIST
URUGUAY, SOUTH AMERICAN FEDERATION
Staff Sergeant Michelle Royse: squad leader, 160th Special Operations Aviation Battalion, US Army
Caitlin Monroe: Echelon senior field agent
Ramón Lupérico: former prison governor on Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON AND VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
James Kipper: forty-fourth President of the United States
Jed Culver: White House Chief of Staff
Barney Tench: Secretary, Department of Reconstruction and Resettlement
Paul McAuley: Secretary, Department of the Treasury
Sarah Humboldt: Secretary, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Admiral James Ritchie: National Security Advisor
Barbara Kipper: America’s First Lady
Henry Cesky: CEO, Cesky Enterprises
Wales Larrison: Echelon deputy director and US liaison to Echelon Secretariat
SYDNEY AND DARWIN
Lady Julianne Balwyn: erstwhile smuggler and reluctant fugitive
Rhino A. Ross: part-time fishing boat operator
Narayan Shah: CEO, Shah Security
Piers Downing: lawyer to Mr Shah
Paras Birendra: operations manager, Shah Security
Nick Pappas: security consultant, former Australian Army SAS operative
Norman Parmenter: contract killer
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Miguel Pieraro: stockyard foreman
Maive Aronson: community college teacher
Sofia Pieraro: high school student, part-time hospital worker
Cindy French: interstate truck driver
Dave Bowman: interstate truck driver
Special Agent Dan Colvin: FBI inter-agency liaison, Kansas City field office