Tony Gentry's new book is the speculative fiction novel Covenant City. His previous novels The Night Doctor of Richmond and The Coal Tower were both short-listed for the Faulkner Society Novel Award, and his YA biography of Dizzy Gillespie won a New York Public Library Best Books for Teens Award. He has also authored a story collection Last Rites, a poetry collection Yearnful Raves, a book about his father's wartime experience WWII Mortarman, and a series of young adult biographies (Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jesse Owens, Dizzy Gillespie, Alice Walker and Elvis Presley). A professor emeritus of occupational therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University, Tony lives with his wife Christine in Bon Air, Virginia.
Covenant City
By: Tony Gentry
Soon. Martial law declared. U.S. elections canceled. Congress and the courts dissolved. An audacious plan is underway to racially purify the land, one region at a time. In Richmond, Virginia the lights go out. The town is renamed Covenant City and remade as a model for a “homegrown heritage” white Christian nation. This is the story of a young white man who falls in with a cadre of multi-ethnic rebels. They enlist him to go into the city as a spy. Once there, to his surprise, a heritage survey uncovers heritage from Jamestown settlers. Welcomed with special privileges, he has a front row seat to the rollout of this AI-managed ethno-nationalist state, building towards Covenant Day, when a...
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