Wide Awake, Steven Konkoly
Wide Awake, Steven Konkoly
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Wide Awake

Author: Steven Konkoly

Narrator: Seth Podowitz

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2023

Synopsis

A conspiracy to incite an American civil war. The desperate chase to stop it is on in a propulsive thriller by Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Deep Sleep.After taking out a sleeper network, Devin Gray and Marnie Young are picking up the pieces of their disrupted lives. But the gravity of the conspiracy they helped to cripple is sucking them right back into the black hole of violence and subterfuge that nearly consumed them. Another sleeper network is awake.A progressive congresswoman dies in a car explosion, vaporized by an American kamikaze drone—the beginning of the mayhem to come. What Devin dismantled is being rebuilt. The plan: ignite a civil war in the United States and burn America to the ground.Seeds of unrest are planted. Threats are escalating. The clock is ticking as Devin, Marnie, and an unconventional team of allies play a cat-and-mouse game across the country to stop a domestic nightmare from coming true.

About Steven Konkoly

Steven Konkoly is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and a veteran of several regular and elite US Navy and Marine Corps units. He has brought his in-depth military experience to bear in his fiction, which includes Coming Dawn and Deep Sleep in the Devin Gray series; The Rescue, The Raid, The Mountain, and Skystorm in the Ryan Decker series; the speculative postapocalyptic thrillers The Jakarta Pandemic and The Perseid Collapse; the Fractured State series; the Black Flagged series; and the Zulu Virus Chronicles. Konkoly lives in central Indiana with his family. For more information, visit www.stevenkonkoly.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

A Surprising Movement that Pushed the Cause of Abolition In their heyday, a pro-Lincoln New York newspaper considered the Wide Awakes "the most imposing, influential, and potent political organizations which ever existed in this country." So why haven't we heard more about them today? The one-time exi......more

Goodreads review by Brendan

I have heard of many movements started from unexpected means. However, I never expected one before the Civil War to be started by fashion. Yet, here we are. Jon Grinspan tells the story of the Wide Awakes. Trying to distill just who the Wide Awakes were is a bit of a tall order and probably why Grins......more

Goodreads review by Porter

What a great and frustrating book. I've been interested in the Wide Awakes ever since I first learned about them in Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Future books talked about them, but never more than a paragraph or so. I've always suspected that there was more to the story. Grinspan's book p......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Most revisits to the Election of 1860 and the coming of the Civil War focus on the top--the politicians and elites that drove to the conclusion. This book focuses on grassroots movements--a group calling themselves "The Wide Awakes" that helped drive Lincoln's election. It tickles me that with conse......more

Goodreads review by John

Jon Grinspan provides us an original book that contributes to the antebellum period. People in the North were sick and tired of the "slave powers" in the South having all the say and their use of violence. A group of men put on black capes and became known as the Wide Awakes. The group was controver......more

Quotes

“[T]he pacing is brisk and the bloodshed cinematic enough that a first-timer can wolf down this entry without having knowledge of the first two. This sends the series out with a bang.” —Publishers Weekly

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