- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Capricorn Publishing (29 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0977475727
- ISBN-13: 978-0977475728
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14.7 x 1.8 cm
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In the near future the USA has become a new kind of state - a Corporate-Christian autocracy. Left-of-center intellectuals and political activists, the Jeffersonian Democrats, have been declared enemies of the state and are ruthlessly persecuted (even on foreign soil) by a new omnipotent federal agency - the Department of Morality Enforcement. In an atmosphere of declining standards of living and dwindling civil liberties, radical reformers and die-hard conservatives collide in a mixture high-tech info-war and urban guerilla warfare with profound international ramifications. Will the power structure hold? John F. Miglio's debut novel is a disturbingly realistic, exquisitely crafted and standard-setting achievement. An intelligent political action-thriller written like no other before. A book for both the serious and recreational readers; for the left, right and center of our current political spectrum; for the atheist and God-fearing alike. It is time to put YOUR values under the microscope.
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A bone-chilling political morality fable, 13 Sep 2006
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunshine Assassins (Paperback)
A superbly crafted novel by John F. Miglio, "Sunshine Assassins" is a bone-chilling political morality fable that poses uncomfortable directions and results of America's history of blind cooperation with the corporate powers that be. Using both bleak, sarcastic humour and science fiction Armageddon traditions, "Sunshine Assassins" is a logical development of political reality especially suited for the "Daily Show" generation, cutting across all age and culture groups. "Sunshine Assassins" is about democracy, and the lost definition of it in an America of the near future. It is about corporate manipulation of media, reality, funding, and all decision-making processes. It is about mind manipulation, even brainwashing, and the infinitely tricky business of evaluating the validity of witch hunting and vigilantism. Specifically, "Sunshine Assassins" targets the misuse of Christianity in a tradition of Corporate Christian conditioning that pervades the infrastructure. Will Americans be able to un-write their conditioned and contracted lives and retake control of both themselves and democracy? Readers of "Sunshine Assassins" may be dismayed by the premise, but they will find the emerging answers unforgettable.
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Very, very cool!, 24 Aug 2006
By Rage Against - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunshine Assassins (Paperback)
I've got to smile when writing this - the book was an absolute blast. Don't start reading it if you have things to do :)
Although it deals with very heavy subjects (political philosophy, economics etc.) Sunshine Assassins is a very fluid read.
The protagonist Frank Corso lives in the near future America - a centralized, corporatized Christian state, yet strikingly recognizable. He is a "progressive left" intellectual with radical believes for change and one helluva hi-tech plan for bringing down the system. He is the head of a radical liberal underground political movement, hell-bent on Jeffersonian economics and freedom from organized religion. Force these people into exile and hiding or hurt their families and you create an army of fallen angels with nothing to loose.
Frank Corso is the first intellectual action-hero of the American progressive left. A far far cry from the actual US "left" of today (dopers with liberal arts degrees and paper-tiger professors with tenures).
Anyone who has ever held progressive ideals close to heart but has been repulsed by the self-labeled American "left" will thoroughly enjoy this book. Very, very cool and original.
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Meh, 26 Nov 2011
By K. Stacey "Readier then a red-cheeked maiden,... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunshine Assassins (Paperback)
I read a great deal of novels and rotate topics: Currently, I am on a "dystopian" kick, so it is only natural that "Sunshine Assassins" is included in my pile of books to read. Politically speaking, I am in Quadrant III (otherwise know as a libertarian), but don't take that as bias. I read everything from "Caesar's Column" by Ignatius Donnelly to "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I do so, because to read things that exclusively agree with you politically is, as my husband to quaintly put it, egotistical masturbation. I give "Sunshine Assassins" two stars for a number of reasons.
Why I didn't like it:
(1) The prose style is decidedly...journalistic. It's a series of info-dumps mixed in with "snap shots" of what the author thinks people like to see in books. That is to say, what Hollywood would think a reader would like in their books.
(2) The protagonist, Frank Corso, is a plainly veiled Gary Stu and no one likes a Gary Stu.
(3) Miglio's disdain of the Right is made very, very clear from Page One. When I first read the lines, I was amused that he was being so...blunt about his opinions. I like blunt; it's cute. However, these opinions continue on right on to the end and at times only get worse. The point of these kinds of books is to sway the "fence-sitters" towards your kind of thinking. However, I think that Miglio came on too strong to sway anyway at all, except to the "other" side.
(4) Nearly all of the characters are static and two-dimensional.
Why I liked it:
(1) I liked the concept of the novel.
Final notes:
I am not sorry that I read it, however, I will not be picking it up again. If you are going to read it, I suggest you borrow it from a friend, or from the library. It is not worth the money.
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