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It is an amazing story of survival, heroism, revenge, trust, hope, and love. There is also a bit of magic that is delightful to uncover as you connect with Paul Wagner, a prisoner who needs all the breaks he can get.
by Preston Fleming
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Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s account of a Soviet labor camp
revolt in Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, the story of FORTY DAYS AT
KAMAS follows political prisoners and security officials at a corrective
labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control during the
summer of 2024.
Kamas, Utah. 2024. In the totalitarian dystopia that America has
become after the Unionist Party’s rise to power, the American West
contains vast Restricted Zones dotted with ghost towns, scattered
military garrisons and corrective labor camps where the regime disposes
of its real and suspected enemies. Kamas is one such camp.
On a frigid March night, a former businessman from Pittsburgh, Paul
Wagner, arrives at a labor camp in Utah’s Kamas Valley, a dozen miles
east of the deserted resort town of Park City, which prisoners are
dismantling as part of a massive recycling project.
When Wagner arrives, he is unaware that his eleven-year-old
daughter, Claire, has set off to Utah to find him after becoming
separated from her mother at the Philadelphia Airport. By an odd quirk
of fate, Claire has traveled on the same train that carried her father
into internal exile.
Only after Wagner has renounced all hope of survival, cast his lot
with anti-regime hard-liners and joined them in an unprecedented and
suicidal revolt does he discover that Claire has become a servant in the
home of the camp’s Deputy Warden. Wagner is torn between his devotion
to family and loyalty to his fellow rebels until, on the eve of an
armored assault intended to crush the revolt, he faces an agonizing
choice between a hero’s death and a coward’s freedom.
In FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS, author Preston Fleming offers a stirring
portrait of a man determined to survive under the bleakest of conditions
and against formidable odds. Fleming’s gift for evocative prose brings
the characters and events to life in a way that arouses emotional
tension while also engaging the reader’s intellect with fundamental
questions about the future of American society.
One Reviewer Notes:
In 2024, the U.S. has been taken over by the Unionist Party who have created a totalitarian dystopia. Before the takeover, Paul Wagner owned a small vitamin factory. When he loses everything and tries to emigrate with his wife and daughters, he's tossed into a harsh labor camp. Fleming develops the story with two parallel plots. While Paul Wagner endures hard days working on recycling projects, 12-year-old Claire Wagner becomes a servant in the home of the camp's Deputy Warden. Through the two perspectives, we learn about the tensions heating up in the summer of 2024 and how the paths of the Wagners may cross again. Fleming masterfully paints his grim landscape with believable detail and vivid characters. Is this novel a warning? Could it happen here? Perhaps the real question is--why couldn't it?
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About the Author
Preston Fleming was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He left home at age fourteen to accept a scholarship at a New England boarding school and went on to a liberal arts college in the Midwest. After earning an MBA, he managed a non-profit organization in New York before joining the U.S. Foreign Service and serving in U.S. Embassies around the Middle East for nearly a decade. Later he studied at an Ivy League law school and since then pursued a career in law and business. He has written five novels.
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