Republic by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of reading a book for free, Republic by Charles Sheehan-Miles. Normally I wouldn’t go about parading this fact, people read books every day. However, it isn’t every day that an author willingly gives away a 350+ page novel while only asking for individuals to spread the word. I originally found this book via Digg.com and while for the most part Digg is flooded with mind-draining crap, this particular book was so riveting that it kept me glued to my Macbook for the 7 hours it took me to read the novel. To give a rough idea of what the novel is about, Charles takes off from where America stands now and then accelerates it’s advances towards a police state where witch-hunts occur in search of domestic and foreign terrorists and the Department of Homeland Security has become the equivalent of the state police in Soviet Russia. The novel really takes off as the story fills out exactly what happened to cause such events to roll in motion and by the end of the book you begin to wonder if such a future is a possibility. A thoroughly entertaining read, I must recommend at least taking a glance over Republic, it won’t cost you a cent.