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A MORE PERFECT UNION
The country he served is unraveling—and this is only the beginning.
Scott Higgins has spent a lifetime in the shadows, making impossible decisions in the name of national security. Now living a quiet life far from the battlefield, he’s determined to leave the past behind—until a string of politically charged murders drags him back into a world he no longer trusts.
What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. A rogue operative targeting extremists. A secretive figure known only as “EP” calling for the overthrow of the government. And mounting evidence of a plot that could disrupt a presidential election—and push a divided nation past the breaking point.
As Scott follows a trail of deception through a landscape of shifting loyalties, he finds himself caught between forces he cannot control and truths he cannot ignore. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes: the threat isn’t coming from outside the country.
It’s already here.
In a nation where trust is collapsing and power is up for grabs, one man must decide what he’s willing to fight for—and what he’s willing to risk to save it.
A More Perfect Union is the gripping first installment in a powerful new national security thriller trilogy where the battle for America’s future has only just begun.
Elliott light
Grew up outside Washington, D.C. in McLean, Virginia before the beltway encircled the capital city, before farms were turned into housing developments, and before open fields became mega-malls.
Light attended both engineering and law school (apparently, unable to make up his mind). He spent three decades practicing law, including environmental, energy, contract, telecommunications, and patent law. (Do you see a pattern here?) But he yearned to be a teller of stories that both entertain and enlighten and in 2002, his first book, LONESOME SONG was published. CHAIN THINKING (2003), THE GENE POLICE (2018), THROWAWAYS (2020) , THE JACKSON RIVER BRIDGE (2023), and THE LAST RIGHTS followed. A MORE PERFECT UNION will be his seventh published novel. Light enjoys trying Asian-inspired recipes, experimenting with his air fryer (you don't need one but it really is fun), reading about new energy technologies (super-hot geothermal looks promising). When he's not traveling with his spouse, Sonya, or not writing, he is a dedicated servant to their cat, Feste.
Author photo by John F. Morgan,
John Morgan Photography, www.jfmorgan.com
IN THE PRESS
THE LAST RIGHTS
“This is a unique, immersive, and brilliantly written book that I couldn’t put down, even after multiple reads.”
Sana Abuleil,
Author, Letters to the Person I Was
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