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Lando Cruz and The Coup Conspiracy

A libertarian dystopian science fiction thriller

A scrappy black market rebel in a dystopian near-future risks both his life and his principles to get his sister back from corrupt cops before they sell her into sex slavery.

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About

About

About the Book

The United States is in slow-motion economic collapse. The Three Strikes Act funnels the unemployed masses into a national network of work camps for the most trivial of infractions.

Lando Cruz is a scrappy rebel who risks his final strike on the streets of Philadelphia by trading illegal currencies under cover of a burrito stand. He spends his days bribing dirty cops, fending off undercover federal agents and shepherding his little sister through adolescence.

Lando is getting by until beat cops seize his savings and kidnap his sister for ransom. He has thirty days to raise the hard cash he needs to free her before she is sold into sex slavery. His only chance is a lucrative job offer from the black market rebellion's paramilitary startup, the Core. He risks both his life and his principles to get his sister back before time runs out.

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Author

About the Author

George Donnelly

Author of dystopian, conspiracy and space opera science fiction novels that shatter the page-turning limits of freedom and the heart-thrilling cavitations of love, George Donnelly terraforms his topopolis-to-be at 22,000 KPH in near-Earth orbit, in his spare time.

Former altar boy turned truancy fugitive, George is an expat vagabond who prefers zombies to aliens but is primed for any meatspace apocalypse minus grey goo. Relieve the solitude of his forlorn cryostatic exile by emailing me@georgedonnelly.com.

Contents

Table of Contents

  • My Corner
  • Manny
  • Henry
  • Ryan
  • Dad
  • Mariana
  • Illegal
  • Rent
  • Fault
  • Broke
  • Advice
  • Agorazon
  • Give it Up!
  • Lando 2.0
  • Cadre Mutual
  • Silver
  • Agora Business Alliance
  • Takoda
  • Run!
  • The Core
  • Connection
  • Govcorp
  • Janitorial Administration
  • Sippy
  • Voolavoo
  • Interview
  • Pigheaded
  • The Vig
  • Grumpy
  • Squatters
  • Secret Agent
  • A Note
  • Hello, Cutiepie
  • Off the Dad
  • Liquid Muck
  • Eastern State
  • Thirty Days
  • Scrapple
  • Epidermis
  • Amateur Hour
  • Logan Jackson
  • Alexis
  • You Don’t Belong Here
  • Harold
  • IPPPA
  • David
  • Knight to Castle
  • Shimmery
  • Staircase
  • Climb
  • Hero
  • Contract
  • Shock Bug
  • Slow Boat
  • Obey
  • Blocked Signal
  • Stress Relief
  • New Mission
  • Change of Plans
  • Puff Bang
  • Strike Three
  • Lawless
  • Snitch
  • Liberty Dollar
  • Chain My Mind
  • Decision Time
  • Rape Lando
  • Ballistics
  • Separated
  • Washout
  • Blackout
  • Stay in Line
  • School
  • Steak Dinner
  • Ninety Seconds
  • Renewed Faith
  • They’re Dead
  • Taclite
  • Accountable
  • Bullseye
  • Hacked
  • I’m Done
  • Octa
  • The O-List
  • Noose
  • No Solidarity
  • Loan Shark
  • Fifty Grand
  • Gut
  • Precious
  • Marbuckle
  • Trust Me
  • Betrayed
  • Chicago
  • Freebeard
  • I am the Raven
  • Air Brakes
  • Inalienable
  • Interrogation
  • Endorsement
  • Double Agent
  • Vigilante
  • Convent
  • Inherently Violent
  • Firing Pins
  • Part of the Job
  • Video Evidence
  • Full Access
  • Two Sides of the Same Coin
  • Psyops
  • Cancer
  • Gasp
  • Solar Plexus
  • PTSD
  • Most Wanted
  • All by Myself
  • Heaven
  • Kidnapped
  • On Your Own
  • Stash
  • Mom
  • Protective Custody
  • Crackdown
  • Turkey Shoot
  • Feels
  • Power
  • Siren
  • Red and Blue
  • Punked
  • Bloody Murder
  • Patsy
  • Badge
  • Taxpayer-Supported
  • Agent Oliver
  • Trust but Verify
  • Dental
  • Ketchupy
  • Pretty Boy
  • Click
  • Loosey-Goosey
  • Opportunity
  • Break Fingers
  • Disappearing Acts
  • Tax Refund
  • Decade
  • Razor
  • High Places
  • Pistol
  • 5041
  • Collapse
  • Blend
  • The More the Merrier
  • Standoff
  • Blessing

Contributor

About the Contributors

Jason Gurley

Jason Gurley is an independent author and book cover designer from Portland, Oregon.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.

https://www.eff.org/
Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

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