Review: A interesting look at the government.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2014
What a great read! Slave Dog Journals is a great story...Rupp's writing pulls you right into the story at the beginning, and spins a story that will keep you intrigued all the way to its last pages.Bob and Darlene Phelps live in modern day Detroit, Michigan. Both are currently unemployed, so Bob starts up a critical thinking class at the local college while they are finding new jobs. Darlene is a psychologist, and the pair have a history in the military.Bob's class is held in an old. building on the campus, next to an old power station. Almost immediately, odd things start happening...like writing on the chalkboard, which they chalk up to pranks. Then the power grid outside the classroom begins kicking on while they are in class. A power grid from a supposedly shut-down power station.Bob has his students keep journals in which they are to record their dreams for discussion in class. Dreams begin linking the classmates to one another, and they start dreaming of terrorist attacks about to happen. Bob brings in a doctor to study the class when he starts to believe they might be experiencing some kind of phenomena.Bob ends up in a situation testing the accuracy of one of the dreams...and it lands him and his wife working for Homeland Security in secret. There are terrorists on American soil. After 3 American historical markers are disfigured by a strange new technology, the Phelps are not sure what to believe. Is this a parlor trick or has the middle east come up with a new technology? When the first 2 landmarks were defaced, the pieces of the monuments are found out in the desert, in the same proximity from the original statue. To some this looks like an act of God. All the while, Homeland Security is feeding the media lies to keep the general public from getting too upset.The book really puts the media into perspective. I highly recommend to all who enjoy mysteries.