The Conscience of Abe's Turn: The Birth of the Conscience, Volume 1 (Season 1, Episodes 1-4)

A story of Espionage, Romance, and Abuse of Power in the fictional town of Abe’s Turn

Somewhere in America, the people live in a police state. Ted and Clydene Jackson have felt it personally. So have their friends Mira and Michael, and all the victims they’ve tried to help, and all the volunteers lobbying to remove Police Chief Baedes from power. For Baedes’s sole ambition is to “protect” the town of Abe’s Turn, at all costs, even if he has to destroy a few innocents in the process. And he will knock down anyone who tries to get in his way.

However, these four friends, unknown even to them, have the means, motive, and opportunity to restrain the forces around them, if they dare… and if their own feelings for each other don’t stop them before they even begin.

Politically incorrect, distinctly libertarian, and teeming with complex characters, this epic novelette series (with a planned 24-episode story arc) explores the heart of freedom and the dangers of power. It blurs the lines between state, revolution, and terrorism. It asks what Thomas Jefferson once asked: “What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

What’s the Book About?

The story is about four civil-rights activists who resort to espionage in order to challenge the police-state tactics of the town of Abe’s Turn. They form an underground organization to serve as “Conscience” to the government around them. It’s extremely political, but it’s not liberal, because our heroes have just as many conservative sympathies as they do liberal.

The story is told in the style of a TV series, with episodes and seasons. This first book contains 4 novelette-size episodes, 4 stories in 1:

• Episode 1: How to Stay Out of Jail in One Easy Lesson — Chief Baedes personally arrests Mira in order to derail a protest being organized against him.
• Episode 2: See What You Get for Wearing a Mask? — Clydene discovers that Baedes is after her husband, while she is trying to help a Pakistani man mistakenly accused of a crime someone else committed.
• Episode 3: Home for the Holidays — Michael comes to the aid of one of his clients, who is being threatened by an A-Team-style crime boss.
• Episode 4: For What Ails You — Ted defends a young man accused of rape, on the two-year anniversary of his wife’s sexual assault.

And in the spirit of a TV series DVD set, this book also contains extra chapters and Bonus Extras:

• Preface — An introduction to the concept of Abe’s Turn, and what it has in common with the most influential, classic literature.
• Prologue — Our 4 heroes chronicle the nosedive Abe’s Turn has taken since Baedes was promoted and form the Committee for a Fairer Future.
• “Whatever Happened to Zorro?” — a behind-the-scenes essay, which tells the story of the inspiration and politics of Abe’s Turn.
• “Recovery, Relapse, Relationship” — a short story: Mira must face the memory of her parents’ tragic death, as Clydene recovers from the trauma of the flashback thread of episode 4.

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