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    Any Way You Slice It: Before It's Too Late, #2
    Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time: Before It's Too Late, #1
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    Before It's Too Late Series

    By Stephen Pocklington

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    About this series

    Eco-Terrorism?  Hardly.  With today's steady stream of mass murders, you'd expect at least one shooter to do us all a favor and target someone who actually deserves to die.  Any of the heartless monsters out there intent on killing us all.  Pick a few of them.  An ugly thought but pragmatic.  It's just how Cooper sees things.

    And when your body count surpasses a hundred, it's no longer merely how you see things.  It's who you've become.  Indeed, Cooper's been at it for a while, having embraced this bloody mission on our behalf.  Never mind that no one asked him to.  No one had to.  It's simply a judiciously top-down approach to making a difference.

    The FBI would prefer that he go away, and not just because he's making them look bad.  It's one thing for madmen to slaughter the innocent and powerless week after week.  It's another thing altogether for a perfectly sane citizen to execute the high and mighty with such good reason.

    Cooper would prefer sitting on his back porch feeding the birds.  Still, somebody's got to save the planet, and no one else is stepping up.  Simple solution: Assassinate the worst climate offenders, hoping that will shake everyone else awake.  Unfortunately, most are already too accustomed to obscene levels of violence.  It leaves no option but to up the ante and violate the ultimate taboo.

    Happily, his next targets have chosen themselves.  With all their cultural warfare blather, it's only logical to begin hacking at the cultural root of the problem.  Nice of them to volunteer.

    Any way he slices it, it's time to unleash the worst violence his spirit can bear…for Humanity's sake.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Pocklington
    Release dateMar 31, 2023
    Any Way You Slice It: Before It's Too Late, #2
    Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time: Before It's Too Late, #1

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      Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time: Before It's Too Late, #1
      Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time: Before It's Too Late, #1

      Casualties Of Conscience: We're Out Of Time: Before It's Too Late, #1

      Stephen Pocklington
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      They say you can't fix stupid.  But when Stupid is killing the planet, shouldn't someone at least try?  When our collective peril becomes great enough, what might happen if a few righteous-minded individuals take direct action because their government won't?   Special Agent Jordan knows her duty.  She enforces the Law.  But now she's confronting an assassin whose every hit makes the world a better, safer place.  Call him an eco-terrorist or vigilante, but so far his "victims" are just well-connected scum.   DNA declares this eco-terrorist to be her nemesis from a decade ago, scum in his own right who nearly destroyed her career.  He's making it personal.  Yet, there's something remarkable about this assassin…a purpose and underlying decency that doesn't fit.  And he wants her to stop him—or try.   Her pursuit stretches from D.C., where sniper fire took out 12 men in just hours, to L.A. and then back again, leaving a string of 100+ bodies along the way. DHS seems concerned only with obscuring the administration's connection to victims, forcing Jordan to work from the shadows, always several corpses behind the vigilante/Planet Steward.   Planet Steward?  What sort of person wreaks such horror on the country and why?  Is this how to save the planet?   Taunted by fragmentary clues left in daily warning messages, and aided only by what she learns from increasingly gruesome killings, can Jordan get ahead of him?  Or, as she learns more about the so-called victims, will she even want to stop him?  Will she find her answer or will it explode in front of her…?

      They say you can't fix stupid.  But when Stupid is killing the planet, shouldn't someone at least try?  When our collective peril becomes great enough, what might happen if a few righteous-minded individuals take direct action because their government won't?   Special Agent Jordan knows her duty.  She enforces the Law.  But now she's confronting an assassin whose every hit makes the world a better, safer place.  Call him an eco-terrorist or vigilante, but so far his "victims" are just well-connected scum.   DNA declares this eco-terrorist to be her nemesis from a decade ago, scum in his own right who nearly destroyed her career.  He's making it personal.  Yet, there's something remarkable about this assassin…a purpose and underlying decency that doesn't fit.  And he wants her to stop him—or try.   Her pursuit stretches from D.C., where sniper fire took out 12 men in just hours, to L.A. and then back again, leaving a string of 100+ bodies along the way. DHS seems concerned only with obscuring the administration's connection to victims, forcing Jordan to work from the shadows, always several corpses behind the vigilante/Planet Steward.   Planet Steward?  What sort of person wreaks such horror on the country and why?  Is this how to save the planet?   Taunted by fragmentary clues left in daily warning messages, and aided only by what she learns from increasingly gruesome killings, can Jordan get ahead of him?  Or, as she learns more about the so-called victims, will she even want to stop him?  Will she find her answer or will it explode in front of her…?

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      Any Way You Slice It: Before It's Too Late, #2
      Any Way You Slice It: Before It's Too Late, #2

      Any Way You Slice It: Before It's Too Late, #2

      Stephen Pocklington
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      Eco-Terrorism?  Hardly.  With today's steady stream of mass murders, you'd expect at least one shooter to do us all a favor and target someone who actually deserves to die.  Any of the heartless monsters out there intent on killing us all.  Pick a few of them.  An ugly thought but pragmatic.  It's just how Cooper sees things. And when your body count surpasses a hundred, it's no longer merely how you see things.  It's who you've become.  Indeed, Cooper's been at it for a while, having embraced this bloody mission on our behalf.  Never mind that no one asked him to.  No one had to.  It's simply a judiciously top-down approach to making a difference. The FBI would prefer that he go away, and not just because he's making them look bad.  It's one thing for madmen to slaughter the innocent and powerless week after week.  It's another thing altogether for a perfectly sane citizen to execute the high and mighty with such good reason. Cooper would prefer sitting on his back porch feeding the birds.  Still, somebody's got to save the planet, and no one else is stepping up.  Simple solution: Assassinate the worst climate offenders, hoping that will shake everyone else awake.  Unfortunately, most are already too accustomed to obscene levels of violence.  It leaves no option but to up the ante and violate the ultimate taboo. Happily, his next targets have chosen themselves.  With all their cultural warfare blather, it's only logical to begin hacking at the cultural root of the problem.  Nice of them to volunteer. Any way he slices it, it's time to unleash the worst violence his spirit can bear…for Humanity's sake.

      Eco-Terrorism?  Hardly.  With today's steady stream of mass murders, you'd expect at least one shooter to do us all a favor and target someone who actually deserves to die.  Any of the heartless monsters out there intent on killing us all.  Pick a few of them.  An ugly thought but pragmatic.  It's just how Cooper sees things. And when your body count surpasses a hundred, it's no longer merely how you see things.  It's who you've become.  Indeed, Cooper's been at it for a while, having embraced this bloody mission on our behalf.  Never mind that no one asked him to.  No one had to.  It's simply a judiciously top-down approach to making a difference. The FBI would prefer that he go away, and not just because he's making them look bad.  It's one thing for madmen to slaughter the innocent and powerless week after week.  It's another thing altogether for a perfectly sane citizen to execute the high and mighty with such good reason. Cooper would prefer sitting on his back porch feeding the birds.  Still, somebody's got to save the planet, and no one else is stepping up.  Simple solution: Assassinate the worst climate offenders, hoping that will shake everyone else awake.  Unfortunately, most are already too accustomed to obscene levels of violence.  It leaves no option but to up the ante and violate the ultimate taboo. Happily, his next targets have chosen themselves.  With all their cultural warfare blather, it's only logical to begin hacking at the cultural root of the problem.  Nice of them to volunteer. Any way he slices it, it's time to unleash the worst violence his spirit can bear…for Humanity's sake.

    Author

    Stephen Pocklington

    Stephen Pocklington lives on a small Certified Wildlife Habitat within the High Rock Lake-Yadkin River Watershed in North Carolina.  He shares this haven with his partner, their dog Dubhshith, and diverse appreciative wildlife. It should be noted that Stephen is holds fast to the precept Cause no unnecessary harm.  He hasn’t fired any weapons since the Army took them away, deemed him unfit, and sent him home in 1981.  He was a fairly good shot, but then he got better.  Since laying down the sword, he has relied on his pen.  He has written so many letters to elected representatives that they each have a special bin for storing them (cylindrical containers, open at the top and about 18 inches tall). Over the years, his car bumpers have sagged from the burden of too many futilely imploring bumper stickers.  Endless marching merely took him in weary circles, wondering how it could be that he still had to protest the same shit.   Yet, now in his seventies, he remains curiously hopeful.

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