FORTY ACRES by Gerard F. Murrin

Dynamic New Novel Explores Land-Use Crisis This spellbinding tale, filled with engaging characters, heroes and villains alike, confronts the land-use crisis in America.  With chilling affect, this story foreshadows the look and feel of the mid-21st-century given the continued loss of land to commercial and residential development. In Murrin’s fictional America, the federal government enacts radical legislation in an attempt to control land-use practices, resulting in a political landscape that is unrecognizable.  Local power brokers quickly learn to manipulate the new system, outlawing dissension groups while continuing to devour open space at an alarming rate.  However, despite being driven underground, the tiny Land Preservation Society (LPS) remains determined to save as many acres as they can. Aided by the courageous and beautiful Tamara Hopkins, Professor Tom Sanders picks up the torch for Andy Cemanski, the aging warrior who has fueled the preservation fight for decades.  Sanders