"Raw, compelling and thought-provoking"
He turned a handicap into a high paying career as an
assassin for hire. Robert Luxley has a "talent" that
allows him to paralyze a person with one touch for fifteen
minutes, enabling him to make a clean kill. He doesn't
know that there are others like him suffering sensory
deprivation syndrome (SDS) until he meets Cassandra. She
too is a Depriver who wants his help finding her twin
brother Nicholas, kidnapped by a radical group of
Deprivers. While Cassie's brother is in captivity, he learns that the
government is on the verge of discovering them and outing
them to the general public. The extremists, led by
Governor Tynsdale, want federal laws mandating that
Deprivers register and wear gloves at all times. When
Nicholas breaks free of his confinement he meets Cassie
and their underground group at their New Jersey house.
They and other deprivers fly to Holland to announce their
existence before the government can put their own spin on
SDS. DEPRIVERS is a raw, compelling and thought-provoking work
of science fiction that leaves readers very unsettled
because they project the official treatment of Deprivers
onto what has happened to groups in post 9/11 society.
The audience will believe that the government will
stereotype all Deprivers into one group, spun as dangerous
and thus rationalize second class citizenship. There are
many heroes in this book who use whatever weapons at hand
to diffuse tensions and hostilities between Deprivers and
normals. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted November 12, 2003
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