"Before I decided to write this book, I had only read the Constitution in grade school, and had only heard of the Federalist papers. I'd never given much thought to either. I didn't realize the importance of those documents. I didn't write this book for the scholars. I didn't write it for the pundits. Hell, truth be known I wrote it for myself. Once I had read about and studied our founding, I could never be silent again. My friends and family will vouch for that. You'll find no footnotes, no fancy literary gimmicks, just one blue collar man's view of what he learned from his journey through...

In a post-apocalyptic America completely devastated by a natural disaster, could ideals like freedom, liberty, and capitalism still survive? Author S Scott Yapp poses this question in the intense sci-fi thriller The Shift. The story begins with a life-ending natural disaster of epic proportions. After years of desolation, from out of the wastelands, from deep underground, there comes the most unlikely of heroes; Edward Trask. Plagued by isolation and visited by visions of disaster, the unwilling hero gets violently swept into the growing tide of socialism. Could this one solitary man be the...