The final installment of Claire Isenthal’s Amazon bestseller continues…
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Catch Up on The Rising Order
"Sharp, propulsive, and terrifyingly plausible, The New Order cements Claire Isenthal as a master of near-future thrillers. With breakneck pacing and unforgettable characters, this book will leave you breathless."
– Bruce Borgos, author of Barry-nominated The Bitter Past and the Porter Beck Mysteries
Claire Isenthal
grew up traveling all over the world with her family. She graduated from Purdue University and went on to live in Chicago where she worked in Digital Marketing and Ad Sales for over ten years. She has since relocated her family back to her Indiana hometown, but is still an avid traveler and loves nothing more than to lose herself in a good book. She still attributes her knack for structure and pacing to reading some of the Harry Potter books over 10 times. Claire is an International Thriller Writers (ITW) member and just released her weekly Substack for new authors — Rising Talent, Earning Your Space in the Publishing Industry. When Claire is not attending writer’s conferences or classes, her evenings are spent with her husband, two children, computer or writers group. The Rising Order is her first novel.
““Once again, Isenthal dazzles with her quick and biting portrait of a city in turmoil, and the human face of our most intractable conflicts. Sharp, as harrowing as a ticking bomb, The New Order explores both our darkest and our noblest impulses, and the complex intersection of the two. Page-turning, thought-provoking, indelible.”
— I.S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow, a New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year, Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
The New Order lands readers right where Isenthal left them in book I — on the edge of a cliffhanger…
Chicago has fallen and Flynn Zarytsky, an unwilling accomplice in the city’s takeover by REDS, has gone into hiding. As she and her fellow Allies, rebels to the new terrorist regime, scrounge for supplies and survival among the darkened buildings, measures grow desperate. When a meeting gone awry sends Flynn across the path of a familiar face, she’s flung once more into a troubled partnership that could determine the city’s fate.
Alliances are formed and tested as Flynn, Nate, and their comrades create an ambitious plan that could save the nation—or get them all killed. If they want any chance of success, they must learn to place trust and hope in unlikely places.
Can redemption be found for those who have done the most harm but suffered the deepest hurt? Is forgiveness, empathy, even love possible among the broken pieces of REDS’s new order?
The action continues in this final installment of Claire Isenthal’s thrilling series, a page-turning read not to be missed.
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The Rising Order kicks off a series reflecting the rise of extremism and threats society faces in the digital age.
Losing everything changed Wolf. Orphaned at a young age, he had no family, no home, and no future. Until a domestic terrorist organization seduced him into their ranks when he was eighteen. Over the next ten years, he’s transformed into a merciless killer and discovers his life’s purpose in the organization’s mission of societal breakdown. Building a new totalitarian regime consumes him and it starts with collapsing Chicago’s vulnerable electrical grid.
Flynn is trapped in a soul-sucking job, recruiting at a renowned computing firm. When Wolf takes her hostage during a brutal attack on Soldier Field, she becomes a pawn in their mission to take control of the city. Forced to help Wolf infiltrate her company, right and wrong is no longer black or white. If Flynn refuses, he will murder every person she loves. If she agrees, Chicago will suffer unimaginable horror. Killing Wolf is her only solution. But, while searching for his breaking point, she discovers a glimpse of humanity she didn’t know existed—a loneliness she also recognizes in herself. Now, it will take more than wit and willpower to stop him from destroying her city, it will take everything she has.