This novel is both a murder mystery and a political thriller set against the rugged beauty and fiery political past of western New York. As the ever intrusive government change the political landscape of America and freedom slips away, a disparate group unite to spark a great insurrection.

This novel is both a murder mystery and a political thriller set against the rugged beauty and fiery political past of western New York. The agents of an ever intrusive government have quietly altered the American political landscape. Freedoms slip away, unnoticed by an apathetic and neglectful nation. In the tradition of our founding fathers, a disparate group of civil disobedients unite to spark the greatest grassroots insurrection since the Whiskey Rebellion, an event CNN comes to call "The Chautauqua Rising."