Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the American Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. They trick the government into buying more Monitor-class ships.

Iron Maiden

Literature & Fiction

Musgrave, Jim

Genre Fiction

EMRE Fiction

An 1887 Handmaid Gets Her Revenge in This Superb Historical Legal Thriller and Mystery Author Margaret Atwood creates a dystopian future in The Handmaid's Tale. James Musgrave's sexist dystopia is based on fact. Attorney Clara Foltz's California legal team is chosen by President Grover Cleveland to defend a mulatto sufragette who has assassinated his Supreme Court nominee, Justice Marshal Owens. When her client is found dead in the jail cell, the hunt begins for the killer. "James Musgrave's The Angel's Trumpet is one of those rare historical mysteries that is both entirely plausible and yet truly original. A richly researched adventure into the complex social web of Gilded Age Washington, featuring deeply-realized and re-imagined luminaries including actress Sarah Bernhardt and President and Mrs. Cleveland, the novel is also surprisingly modern in its sensibilities, a compelling romp into an earlier era's struggle with addiction and vice and secrecy and race relations, and, most of all, hidden sources of power. You will read this book in one sitting--and you will be very glad that you did. A meticulously-plotted gem from a master of the genre." Jacob M. Appel, author of the Dundee International Book Award winner, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up.

The Angel's Trumpet: Nineteenth Century Legal Mystery and Thriller (Portia of the Pacific)

Musgrave, James

United States

What if Donald Trump and his New Cabinet Were Trapped in Mar-a-Lago in 2017, Like You Were Trapped with COVID19? "In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."--Albert Camus This is the plight of fledgling reporter Nick Holcomb as he visits Mar-a-Lago Plot: Staff of club slowly leaves for no reason. Pigs and a horse kept in salon. Dialogue of backbiting during dinner. Louise Linton plays piano and keeps a Tutsi shrunken head in her purse. Guests decide to leave, but waiter brings in coffee and everybody stays and ultimately bed down for the night. Nobody can leave the Living Room. After days, all the food has been eaten, no water. Trump and Melania are blamed along with Bannon. Men break into wall plumbing to get water. Nobody from outside can enter. Kellyanne's four children come to Mar-a-Lago with Mexican maid. The youngest boy can't go inside the club. The pigs wander back into the living room. They all kill the pigs and break-up the furniture, start a fire in the living room, and roast the pigs to eat. Steve Bannon finds stash of drugs. Kellyanne sees that everybody is where they were on the first night. Kellyanne tells Louise Linton to play the piano. They all act the way they did on the first night and, this time, they can all go home. Mike and Karen Pence and Rick and Anita Perry tell everyone they should go to church to give thanks for this "miracle of the Lord." The West Palm Beach Episcopal Church-by-the-Sea is chosen. After services, nobody can leave the church. Rioters outside are suppressed by the military. Narrator: Nick Holcomb, Rookie News Reporter for Fox News/National Enquirer.

The Castaways of Mar-a-Lago: An Absurdity Drama Novelette

Humor & Satire

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