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ALL WARS HAVE RULES
Rule Number One: No murdering trusting bystanders.
Rule Number Two: No murdering anyone underneath a age of eighteen.
BREAK THE RULES, BECOME THE TARGET
Since a age of eighteen, Joseph has been assassinating people on interest of a means that he believes in though doesn't entirely understand. The War is ageless, dark in a shadows, governed by a firm set of rules, and fought by dual graphic sides-one good, one evil. The usually different is that side is which. Soldiers in a War censor in plain sight, their deeds sheltered as accidents or pointless acts of assault amidst an gullible race ignorant of a savagery that is always inches away.
Killing people is a usually life Joseph has ever known, and he's one of a best during it. But when a pursuit goes wrong and he's sent divided to finish a punishingly dangerous assignment, Joseph meets a lady named Maria, and for a initial time in his life his singleminded, bloody purpose fades away.
Before Maria, Joseph's usually shortcoming was traffic genocide to a unknown targets fingered by his superiors. Now he contingency run from a people who have fought by his side to save what he loves many in this world. As Children of Paranoia reaches a heart-in-throat climax, Joseph will learn that usually one order stays immutable: a usually thing some-more dangerous than fighting a War...is withdrawal it.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #596901 in Books
- Published on: 2011-09-08
- Released on: 2011-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.28" h x 6.12" w x 9.34" l, 1.29 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Shane delivers clear movement sequences estimable of some of a many successful action-suspense novels. It's a disturbingly good adventure." -BuzzFocus.com
"One uninterrupted adrenaline rush that keeps we on corner to a really climax." -Game Vortex
"Shane's work here is impressive. He positively knows how to theatre an movement stage and how to ratchet adult tension. If you're in a marketplace for an exciting, propulsive read... Children of Paranoia would make an glorious choice." -The Saturday Evening Post
"Children of Paranoia, a initial installment of a designed trilogy, never flags, and kept this reader's courtesy watchful until a end." - Psychology Today
"Children of Paranoia is one crazy journey with twists and turns that will excite readers who adore a small movement in their stories. Trevor Shane is one powerhouse of a writer" - Geeks of Doom
"A claustrophobic, relentless, fascinating float that will have we eyeballing everybody we pass in a street."
(-Marcus Sakey, author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes )"Like The Bourne Identity incited inside-out, [Trevor Shane's] protagonist navigates a universe where prosaic choices like going to a ATM have life-and-death consequences. Filled with pointy plotting and clear action, this book will stay with we prolonged after you''ve raced to a end."
(-Chris Farnsworth, author of Blood Oath )
From a Author
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About a Author
Trevor Shane is a author of Children of Paranoia, a initial book in a trilogy set to be published by Dutton. Children of Paranoia is Trevor's initial novel. Trevor was innate and lifted in New Jersey. He is a connoisseur of Columbia University and Georgetown University Law Center. Trevor now resided in Brooklyn with his mother and son.
Visit Trevor Shane's website: trevor-shane.com
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
A earnest start to a trilogy
By TChris
Children of Paranoia starts with a murder: an fit strangulation. We shortly learn that Joe, a murderer, is a veteran killer, partial of a organisation of assassins who carried out a array of murders that same day. Their motivation, suggested in an early chapter, is related to a novel's premise: a surreptitious fight is afoot, waged by participants who start training during sixteen and start murdering during eighteen (unless they are reserved to be comprehension officers or breeders). Trevor Shane is reduction discerning to explain a war's purpose, because it started and what a dual sides represent. Joe doesn't know. He simply believes he's one of a good guys and that a universe will be a improved place when all a bad guys are dead.
The fight seems like one of those Hatfield-McCoy impression feuds that has lasted for so many generations nobody can remember because it started. The beauty of this story lies in a uncertainty: Why is this fight being waged? Are a bad guys unequivocally bad, a good guys unequivocally good? When dual people on conflicting sides occur to be friends, conjunction of them wakeful that a other is concerned in a war, should their standing as soldiers overcome their friendship?
The story of a veteran torpedo in an doubtful fight eventually intermingles with an even reduction expected adore story as Joe meets a lady of his dreams while stalking his latest target. Most of a book, in fact, is created in a form of a minute (a unequivocally prolonged letter) to a lady Joe loves (a technique that is eventually flawed, given Joe ends adult giving his partner minute accounts of events she gifted firsthand). Due to a weird order that binds a war's combatants, that attribute eventually causes a problem for Joe. While a order and a problem emanate a thespian dispute that drives a second half of a story, we have difficulty creation any clarity of a rule. My inability to postpone dishonesty eventually done it formidable to sojourn pensive in a novel. More discouraging is that a story's second half tends toward melodrama. It infrequently has a feel of a made-for-TV-movie; during other times it seems like a cheesier chronicle of Logan's Run. The second half is redeemed, however, by a clever finale that truly astounded me.
Putting aside my reservations about tract growth in a second half, we cruise a novel as a whole to be a inestimable read. Shane writes in a constrained style, skilfully blending scenes of genocide with images of typical life, formulating magnetism for those fighting on both sides of a war. His point, we think, is done rather categorically when one of a soldiers comments about fighting in 3 wars -- Korea, Vietnam, and this one -- and complains that he was lied to any time about a hazard acted to a "good guys" by a "evil enemy."
I don't know that a grounds underlying Children of Paranoia merits a trilogy though it isn't satisfactory to decider books we haven't read; they competence spin out to be stellar, and this one sets adult a subsequent one utterly nicely. Children of Paranoia showed adequate guarantee that we am softly meddlesome in reading a subsequent one, if usually to find out either Shane can order a trustworthy reason for a tip war.
4 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Exciting, heart-wrenching novel
By carlyfreedom
Joe is a infantryman in an subterraneous war, though he doesn't know over what a fight is being fought. All he knows is that he's good and 'they' are evil. Joe meets a municipal lady and incidentally pulls her into a fight with him. To shun a terrible end, they have to live on a run from all and everybody they know.
Though this is deliberate a Thriller, it's most some-more than that. There's explanation about a confused state of a world, and a story about a immature family perplexing to make a life for themselves. Children of Paranoia is a page-turner that creates a reader think. Great initial novel by Trevor Shane - looking brazen to reading some-more by him.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Children of Paranoia
By Nicoleabouttown
I am not even going to lie. The pretension of a book bending me before we even examination a synopsis. Then we examination a summary and knew we had to get a duplicate for myself. we am so blissful we did.
For me, while a book started off a bit slow, it still authorised me to dive into both a characters and a story. Once a story gets going, it unequivocally gets going and before we know it we are kneed low in suspense, drama, movement and intrigue. we consider it's a genuine covenant to Trevor Shane's ability as a author to be means to qualification a impression like Joe, who to me is a ultimate anti-hero and a conflicting of all that we would typically demeanour up, and nonetheless we still wish to see him succeed.
I adore a contrariety between Joe's dark and Maria's light. There is only something that is so relocating to me about Joe carrying been a chairman of absolutes who afterwards has his universe incited upside down by Maria and her introduction into his life. To watch their attribute reveal and to see a changes both characters go by was only amazing. Knowing that this was a initial book in a trilogy, we didn't consider that we would get a possibility to see such impression abyss and growth in a initial book, though we was wrong and we was agreeably surprised.
All in all this was a fanciful book. we positively devoured it roughly 4 hours and of march we am now left failing to know what happens next. Trevor Shane has managed to emanate an positively smashing and enchanting entrance that leaves readers wanting more.
*A duplicate of a book was provded by a publisher for a blog debate and in sell for a satisfactory and honest review*
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