Press release from Rick Bryson:
Bryson City, August 12, 2016—Before he became a candidate for Congress for the NC 11th District, Frederick E. (Rick) Bryson was a writer, having published over 1000 technical articles and three novels. But his latest novel — The Jefferson Legion — is unusual in that it contains remarkable parallels to his campaign for Congress.
“This book is about what would happen in the United States if the people lost faith in government, because it served only big business and special interests.” Bryson cites the fact that 93% of the American people believe that our present Congress is doing a poor job.
The setting is in Southern Appalachia, primarily the Nantahala National Forest of Western North Carolina. The principal character, William Campbell, is a Jefferson-quoting fugitive who has formed a militia group (The Legion) to undermine the Federal Government by a number of creative, but nonviolent means, mostly via the Internet. Eventually, the group takes on a Robin Hood-esque nature, stealing from the Federal Reserve and helping disabled people up and down Appalachia.
“This book was finished two years before my run for Congress,” notes Bryson. “It was accepted for publishing last year, but took this long to work through the publisher’s backlog. The statement that it makes, however, is that this is what could happen here if our government should become so self-serving as to be unresponsive to the needs of our people.”
The Jefferson Legion is published as an ebook, from Ex-L-Ence Publishing, Website: www.ex-l-ence.com It is available on line from Amazon, at: http://lrd.to/jefferson-legion
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