New Normal: Resistance
by Dexter C. Channing
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GENRE: Medical disaster thriller
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BLURB:
In New Normal – Resistance, a deadly pandemic
is sweeping across the globe. Country after country is disintegrating into a
lawless, terrified conclusion as it soon becomes apparent that there is a fate
worse than death. Violence and discord stalk the streets; governments are
beginning to introduce martial law and curfews in a futile attempt to regain
control of a world thrown into disarray by a silent, unseen killer.
Jolyon Jones, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
knows that it is a race against time to find a vaccine for this highly
infectious virus before the consequences wipe out humanity. He also knows that
the virus is not the only killer. Small pockets of resistance are slowly
emerging; survivors ready to fight not only against the virus, but against each
other.
In the midst of the battle for survival, the
faithful know that their wait for the Second Coming is nearly over. They know
that He is here again. But who is He and will He be able to stop the virus
before science reaches an apocalyptic solution?
Resistance is the second in Dexter C. Channing’s
New Normal Trilogy. The first being New Normal – Virus, which was released earlier
in the year. The final instalment is due to be released at Easter 2021.
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Excerpt One:
Across the Atlantic, early evening sunlight bathed the White
House in an auroral light, shimmering in the gentle breeze which sighed across
the velvet green lawns. Inside the Oval Office, nobody cared for the view,
despite how peaceful and ordinary it looked.
The President was wearing his most mulish look as the
Secretary of State and the Defence Secretary reeled from his latest revelation.
For a moment, only the distant wail of sirens could be heard in the thick
silence which surrounded them following the President’s declaration. The sound
mingled with the groan of despair from the Defence Secretary, an involuntary
reaction to what he had just listened to.
‘Mr President, Sir,’ the Defence Secretary looked at the
other man and felt like smashing his fist into the supercilious expression he
found staring back at him. Did the President not understand what was happening
and how there was a need for unity, not discord within global relationships?
Obviously, he did not! ‘Could I ask you if Professor Benjamin did this without
coercion?’
Spreading his arms out in a gesture that indicated he did not
know or understand, the President replied, ‘All I know is that I have been told
of a call made to Beyler School of Medicine from Professor Benjamin’s office.
Who instructed him to make the call, I don’t know, but I do know that if there
is a second spike, another “mutation”, then Watpharm had better understand it
will need Gileath to bail it out of its fucking mess, pissing about with some
bloody college students and those yellow skinned freaks!’
‘This has been done as retaliation because what, Watpharm didn’t
want to set up shop with an American Company? Jesus fucking Christ!’ The
Defence Secretary’s fist came down on the desk, making the other two men jump.
‘We’re in the middle of a fucking world changing crisis, Mr President, Sir! We
have the threat of extinction and we have got non-humans running amok on the
fucking planet and some idiot professor wants some more business for his
company?’
‘This administration gives Gileath a hell of a lot of
dollars,’ the President glared at his Defence Secretary, ‘and I don’t want
those dollars wasted! Working with Watpharm might also go some way to restoring
America’s credibility on the world stage.’
‘I think what the Defence Secretary is trying to say, Mr
President, is that if there is a second spike or another mutation of this
current outbreak, then the world stage may not have much of an audience left to
play to, Sir.’ The Secretary of State intervened.
The President threw his papers down onto his desk and
stormed out of the office wearing a truculent expression.
The Secretary of State shook his head. ‘Sometimes, the
thought crosses my mind that a couple of cups of disinfectant or bleach
wouldn’t go amiss.’
They were both thinking of a disastrous video link press
conference which had been held towards the end of April. It had been beamed
around the globe, one of the few broadcasts that were made that day and America
still hadn’t recovered from the backlash. Both men looked to the door, which
the President had just slammed.
‘How much is a bottle of Clorax these days?’ Asked the
Defence Secretary and they both burst out laughing, amazed that they still
could.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dexter
C Channing is something of a mystery to the literary world – and indeed, the
team at Just Jane Publishing has never actually met this author, having been
introduced through another writer during the Covid 19 Lockdown.
The
elusive author prefers to remain an enigma to everyone, simply stating a love
of city life as opposed to the country because “it’s easier to disappear in a
big city where nobody knows your real self”. That real self is “single, not
available” and prefers being alone to the “ruinous pathway of a love affair”.
Fact,
fantasy and science all combine in this author’s often dark writing style,
which takes you through conspiracy theories to conclusions you’d rather not
reach in the real world. Or maybe, as Dexter says, you’re already there.
Is
Dexter C Channing an American? There’s a possibility, but then anything is
possible, if you believe what goes on in Channing’s imagination, often taking
us to places we’d rather not go. It’s clear at some point that Channing did
live in America, and still has some links to Miami and Deerfield Beach.
More
of late, Channing has been residing in England and has actually allowed the
team at Just Jane Publishing access to a list of favourite places which include
Chesterfield in Derbyshire, Liverpool, and a surprising one, given the penchant
for city living – a tiny village called Kettlewell, in Yorkshire.
What
does a mysterious author who nobody really knows do when they’re not writing?
Channing watches. Things. Events. People. Then they get written about. Is
Channing a one trick pony? Far from it. There are links with law, property, and
a love of music, which is always in the background when Channing is writing.
“Virus”
was the first of Dexter C Channing’s world-changing trilogy of novellas.
“Resistance” is the second in the series, and the final, concluding book,
“Resurrection” will be published by Just Jane Publishing around Easter, 2021.
#IsitAVirus?
Links:
Amazon
UK:
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USA:
Twitter:
@DexterChanning
Facebook:
Dexter C. Channing
Blog:
dextercchanning.wordpress.com
Interview with Dexter C. Channing
I always know what is going to happen because I write ‘faction’ – that means I take a set of real life events and construct a story around it. My characters are all as close to their real life counterparts as I can get away with, so I always have to be in control of them. I’m a control freak anyway, so this works well.
2. Convince us why you feel your book is a must read.
Knowledge is power. You need to read this book, and the others in the trilogy to know what might really be happening. It’s also a pretty good book, even if I say so myself.
3. Have you written any other books that are not published?
I’m currently writing the final part of the ‘New Normal’ trilogy, this is called ‘Resurrection’. I have other topics which I am researching and there are parts of other books already written.
4. Pen or type writer or computer?
Computer. Although, I dig those old fashioned manual typewriters. I imagine myself hunched over one, banging away on the keyboard with carbon paper as my ‘save’ facility.
5. Anything you would like to say to your readers and fans?
Question Everything.
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