The next great battle between liberty and tyranny is about to begin…
In a retelling of the 2015 novel America, Inc., award-winning and Amazon best-selling author Mikael Carlson brings the government surveillance and public manipulation of Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 while weaving in the twists and turns of Game of Thrones. The Black Swan Event is the action-packed first novel of this epic speculative fiction saga that is modern social commentary wrapped in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic political thriller.
When an underground group of dissenters detonates an explosion that causes problems with trading on the world’s sole stock exchange, a series of events are set in motion that threatens to unravel the fabric of society. Egos clash as bureaucrats, corporate executives, and wealthy elites play politics amid an unprecedented threat to their corporatist economic system. Are these black swan events the harbinger of another great collapse, or is it the spark needed for the light of liberty to shine once more?
Welcome to the corporate state: a terrifying look at a future where people are dependent on fascist, totalitarian corporations for everything.
Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began oppressing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a price – individual freedom.
People are now cogs in the corporate machine whose sole purpose is to enrich the elite. Every employee is monitored for any hint of subversion and subjected to the harshest penalties for even minor transgressions. Most of the world’s population has accepted this new reality. Not all of them have. The corporations call them “terrorists.” They call themselves humanity’s last, best hope for liberty.
Liberty or Tyranny? A great struggle is erupting, and the long-forgotten meaning of freedom hangs in the balance. Prepare for a roller-coaster ride filled with unexpected twists and dramatic events. When the rebellion clashes with the surveillance state, the future of human society will hang in he balance.
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The Black Swan Event — Product Information
Title: The Black Swan Event
Author: Mikael Carlson
Series: The America, Inc. Saga — Book 1
Publisher: Warrington Publishing
Publication Date: June 1, 2022
Language: English
Genre: Dystopian Thriller / Political Thriller / Speculative Fiction
Current Formats: Kindle eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Quick Product Data
eBook ISBN: 9781944972141
Paperback ISBN: 9781944972158
Hardcover ISBN: 9781944972165
eBook Page Count: 363 pages*
Paperback Page Count: 362 pages
Hardcover Page Count: approximately 361–362 pages†
Paperback Trim: 6 × 9 inches
Hardcover Nominal Trim: 6 × 9 inches
Formats: Kindle eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Audiobook: Coming Soon
Publisher: Warrington Publishing
Publication Date: June 1, 2022
Series: The America, Inc. Saga, Book 1
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Praise for the America, Inc. Saga

Another intense thriller full of twists and turns, in a very creative and frighteningly realistic world--one in which it's hard to choose a side. I read everything Carlson writes and he still throws me for loops! Highly recommend this read.

Amazon Review
The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality. Mikael Carlson turns the tension up to full blast in this complex examination of a corporate entity’s overreaching grip on power and the skillful group determined to break its hold.

Review by Book Excellence
Carlson wrote this years ago, yet it's uncanny how close the world in 'Black Swan Event' is to today's world. And let's be real, would you have ever believed, let alone predicted, what life is like now if someone told you just two years ago?

Amazon Review

Author

Mikael Carlson

The founder of Warrington Publishing, Mikael is the multiple award-winning and Amazon bestselling author of six political drama and thriller series spanning nearly two dozen novels. He is a retired paratrooper, avid world traveler, and political junkie looking to bring great stories to the world.

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