congress | Author Sean T. Smith

The first Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. The second war is worse.

While the nation tears itself apart, a soldier with a deadly secret fights his way home to his family.

Freedom is worth dying for, and love is a reason to live…but a house divided cannot stand.

Can Henry, Suzanne and the United States survive? Often the things we love we hurt the most.

Bestselling author Steve Konkoly says:

“Tears of Abraham delivers a frightening look at a nation torn apart by a not so distant civil war. In classic Smith style, the conflict unfolds on a deeply personal level, delivering a guy punch of authentic military style action, sleek conspiracy undertones, and gripping family drama. I was hooked from the start by this uniquely dystopian military thriller.”

This is a deeply patriotic novel, my love letter to America. Should our differences lead to open war, the results will be beyond anything we can imagine, yet even now people clamor for secession without understanding what that would mean. While politics forms a backdrop to this book, it is essentially apolitical, a look at a conflict more than a hundred years in the making through the eyes of heroes, villains, and the innocent.

TEARS OF ABRAHAM will be released in March 2016, published by Post Hill Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Now that the government is open for business again, we can all breathe a big sigh of relief, right? We know better. In politics it seems that the motto is something like “do unto others before they do unto you,” and then lie about it afterwards with smiling faces and mock sincerity for the cameras. Our Congress shut down the government, and then those same people complained about our parks being closed. They got in front of the cameras and pointed fingers across the isle. They kicked the can down the road a few months, and we’ll have our stomachs in knots right before Christmas. Fantastic.

I happen to lean left, but I am disgusted by the way both Democrats and Republicans behaved, and both sides must agree to resolve future disagreements without harming the entire country. Tyranny, whether by the many or the few, is evil. The drum beat of hatred is loud, drowning out reasonable discourse on Capitol Hill and on Main Street U.S.A. I cringe at what I read on the internet sometimes, and I am astonished by what some people are willing to say. Our leaders, in the rhetoric they use, seem to be a distorted reflection of reality. The shrill cries from both sides do not represent who we are as a people. If the voting public could convey this message to our elected officials, perhaps the nastiness would subside.