Eldorado

✍ Scribed by Storey, Jay Allan

• Book ID: 107659164
• Publisher: Divergent Mind Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 145 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780991791217

✦ Synopsis

In the late 21st century, Peak Oil has reduced western civilization to the economic level of the third world. The sight of an automobile is a head-turning event, and a familys vegetable garden is its most treasured possession. The meager food production of local farms is hauled to the city of Vancouver by a continuously running train called the Food Train. While the city center is severely overcrowded, its outlying suburbs, dependent on cheap fuel for survival, have been abandoned and are now inhabited only by the homeless and outlaws.

Community College instructor Richard Hampton and his younger brother Danny live an uneasy existence along with their docile, laid-back dog, Zonk. Still stunned by the brutal murder of their parents four years earlier, and burdened by a promise to his dying mother to look after Danny, Richard has switched off. He is only half alive.

Richards world is blown apart when Danny disappears and the police are too busy keeping a lid on a hungry, overcrowded city to search for him. Following Dannys enigmatic journal, Richard jumps the Food Train to the violent, sprawling suburbs. Mistaken for a criminal, held prisoner, and condemned to death by a community of outcasts, hes rescued by Carrie, a fiercely independent woman who joins in his quest.

Their search leads them through the remnants of civilization, facing criminal gangs, renegade militias, and the hardships of the road. Their trail finally ends at a deserted complex in the remotest corner of the suburbs.

What they discover there will alter their lives and their world forever.