"Inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant." --
FOREWORD
Embedded with an
eco-terrorist group hellbent on explosive direct action, investigative
journalist Owen Graham is enmeshed in a dangerous culture on the political
fringe. Ordinary citizens, frustrated by inequality and oppression and a
bureaucracy’s resistance to change, are starting to go off the grid and
disrupt the status quo. But the fringe is poised to go mainstream, and
Owen’s days as a passive observer are running short.
While a series of escalating
misunderstandings land an idealistic public school teacher in the middle of a
hostage situation and the sights of an overeager federal agent who has been
trailing Owen for months, he intervenes in a desperate split-second decision.
Owen’s old life is gone forever. Now he’s on the run with a trio of
fellow crusaders, all fighting for a better world but now labeled as terrorists
by the government. Disparate people on all sides, each convinced they’re
right – and doing the right thing -- are now spinning towards each other
in an inexorable spiral of
violence.
AMERICAN TERRORIST is a
high-speed chase across the country in search of radical solutions to injustice,
inspiring a movement that may be snuffed out before it starts.
Visual artist(s): Andy MacDonald, Matt Wilson, Michael E. Wiggam