The third book of  the quadrology that includes The Galileo Syndrome, The Fires of Home, and Hobo Signs, The Dirties walks into the lull before a storm of clarity. The apparently impossible events of this book drives us through the destruction of reality via an apparently simple concept: An uncaring elite has damned billions to suffer.

The lull looks like this: Chaos spreads quickly as poverty and disease grow. The corporate tit turns away from the masses, then disappears all together Anger erupts. Another barrier is required to keep the population in order.

The Redding Wall rises three hundred feet from the ground. The barricade in Northern California uses the remains of the consumer civilization to protect those that brought down civilized society. Brownish gray in color with black shadows from its rain of weapons, built from trash, an odor of filth radiates from the wall, a ghostly extension of its existence.  The miles-long pyramid-shaped wall wears a flat top of weapons and protruding perches for armaments, surveillance, and assault counter measures--as well as air conditioned cubes for black glass sport courts, swimming pools, and bicycle trails running along the peak. Beneath that, the rectangular-snouts of the guard towers and their blinking red lights, flame throwers, and gatling guns that could probably have guarded hell from god’s avenging angels.

Not surprisingly, the Redding Wall has become a lens, a focus of anger for billions of people around the planet. Millions arrive on the American shores every month, in an ironic parody of the American dream of centuries past. They come not to enjoy the gift of freedom, but to destroy those that hide behind it. Everyone wants a piece of the nightmare--not to own it–but  to annihilate the madness that has taken over a once great dream of freedom and human dignity.

The Redding Wall stands as a tribute to technology and engineering. But like an old headstone, it is scared by time. Yet how could this monster exist in our world?

“...Called the 99 % solution, The Dirties calls out to a society in turmoil. It is both a great read and an answer to the inequity and loss we face as a society. Read how this prophetic novel meets the challenge of our times, and points to an answer. An answer without bloodshed, class warfare, or the need for a schism, The Dirties takes us to our roots as a nation--and in doing so--reveals America’s centuries old path to greatness...”