Zephyr Unfolding
Nicole Givens Kurtz
Double Dragon Publishing, $5.99, 224 pages, ISBN: 1554042712
reviewed by Barry Hunter

The NATO virus was only a ruse to decimate the leaders and population for the United World Council to take over. After all, they found a cure for cancer so they must be on the track for a cure for this. The beginning of this story was told in the BROWNE CANDIDATE (reviewed in Baryon 85).

It is now several years later and Aurora has settled in with Ren, one of the leaders of the resistance, in their hideout in Canada. The camp is attacked and several women and children are killed and the wife of the UWC is retaken. Her return is not what she imagined.

Are there traitors in the resistance camp? Why is Ren framed for an assassination? These and other questions and their answers show why Nicole Givens Kurtz is a wizard at plotting and creating a truly frightening landscape of a time that could come to pass in the light of events currently shaping the world.

This is another solid novel from a thoughtful writer that draws a picture of an unpleasant future, but at least it is a future with hope. Put this on your list.