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Get Reading! presents a literary morning tea with John Birmingham. John will talk about his new book Angels of Vengeance. About John Birmingham John Birmingham is the author of the cult classic He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, the award-winning history Leviathan and the trilogy comprising Weapons ... (more)of Choice, Designated Targets and Final Impact. Without Warning was published in 2008, and its sequel After America in 2010. Between writing books he contributes to a wide range of newspapers and magazines on topics as diverse as the future of media and national security. Before becoming a writer he worked as a research officer with the Defence Department's Office of Special Clearances and Records. You can find John Birmingham online at his blog, http://cheeseburgergothic.com and on Twitter @johnbirmingham. Praise for John Birmingham ‘black humour and imagination… contains insights for today’s world’ ~ Canberra Times ‘grittily realistic… mesmeric readability’ ~ Weekend Australian ‘bucketloads of action’ ~ Sunday Mail ‘fascinating and dramatic’ ~ Herald Sun ‘required reading for the entire world’ ~ James Rollins, NY Times bestselling author About Angels of Vengeance When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles—for survival, justice, and revenge. Special agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily through a South American jungle. Her target: a former French official now held prisoner by a ruthless despot. To free the prisoner, Caitlin will kill anyone who gets in her way. And then she will get the truth about how a master terrorist escaped a secret detention centre in French Guadeloupe to strike a fatal blow in New York City. Sofia Peiraro is a teenage girl who witnessed firsthand the murder and mayhem of Texas under the rule of General Mad Jack Blackstone. Sofia might have tried to build a life with her father in the struggling remnants of Kansas City—if a vicious murder hadn’t set her on another course altogether: back to Texas, even to Blackstone himself. Julianne Balwyn is a British-born aristocrat turned smuggler. Shopping in the most fashionable neighborhood of Darwin, Australia—now a fantastic neo-urban frontier—Jules has a pistol holstered in the small of her lovely back. She is playing the most dangerous game of all: waiting for the person who is hunting her to show his face—so she can kill him first. Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants struggling for new lives. John Birmingham’s astounding new novel—the conclusion to the series begun in Without Warning and After America—is an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to shattered streets to gleaming new cities, as humanity struggles to grasp its better angels—and purge its worst demons. Book sales at the event by Dymocks, North Lakes. Dates / Times Redcliffe Library, 11 November 2011, 10.30am Cost Free Bookings Bookings for this event are required. Contact Redcliffe Library (07) 3283 0311 Redcliffe.library@moretonbay.qld.gov.au

Birmo is touring ahead of the release of After America.

Following his thought provoking novel about what would happen to the world if America was wiped off the map, John Birmingham discusses his new thriller, After America, which is about who or what will fill that void.

In John Birmingham's alternate history techno thriller, a mysterious wave of energy has destroyed the continental United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Their command structure gone, American soldiers, Americans abroad, and a small number of people in the relatively unscathed Pacific Northwest ... (more)encounter a world without the planet's only superpower.

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