Colin Merson

State of Independence Colin Merson

FBI special Agent Patrick Roth was a rising star in the Bureau and tagged to go all the way to the top. However, a spate of violent robberies he was investigating was a growing weight on his shoulders and a building case load that refused to crack. Alone with his theory, all Roth's roads were leading to the door of the Preacher, a mysterious and charismatic figure who led his backwater community in the deep south with an iron hand. To outsiders it was a closed shop, fear and hatred building a wall of silence even the FBI couldn't penetrate. Roth's case though was barely touching the tip of a far larger, more widely reaching conspiracy. A threat to the nation that would roll all the way to the door of the White House. Louisiana was a burning powder keg just waiting to explode with racial tension and cultural violence growing to a level unseen for over a hundred years. Roth needed a way in to the Preachers world, a face that would fit without suspicion and Kent Logan was going to be his key. First Roth needed to convince him to go back. Then he had to keep him alive... There was a storm brewing in the south that threatened to blow across a fragile America. Now the future of a nation lay in the hands of two men. The countdown had begun and lives were going to be lost . Would it be theirs?