The Siege of Gresham
Publisher: AK Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781873176054
Subjects: Modern fiction; Thrillers; General; Political Science; Fiction - Espionage / Thriller; Fiction; Politics/International Relations; Espionage/Intrigue; Political Science / General
First sentence: Many were lost, some to the freeways and some backsliding into the city, some came nightly for several years and their whereabouts were discussed for several more, some were stunned after mere months of continuous putrefaction, stillbirths on the duct-taped red-upholstered barstools, washed away in police raids or traduced in the weeds of exit-ramp embankments by the chemically desperate, others retched up their autumnhued guts in the public library toilet; some plummeted anticlimactically into homelessness and were met with in the rainy months shoving pilfered grocery carts along the leafslick walkways of the Park Blocks, become medieval creatures of long clotted hair and snotclotted beards speaking an orthodox gibberish from their ponchos of garbage bags, subject to solipsistic delusions of federal persecution and incapable of recognizing their pals of last year or the year before, weeping with recognition of children that were not their children; some got plain bored and took up typing or
Description: A rollicking, hair-raising, manic ride across the abruptly blossoming war-zones of the urban northwest, with a gang of fourteen would-be guerrillas who have a score to settle.

Their dark and perilous campaign ceaselessly pick up speed until it takes on a runaway life of its own, transformed by a desperate momentum: once-paralyzed rage burns down a bookstore and hi-jacks a commuter train; isolation and fear force bloody encounters with skinheads, crips and postal workers; a history of long-disappointed desire becomes a symphony of lurid and hilarious catharsis, building relentlessly to a dizzying conclusion.