JD Erickson
A small conservative-minded city has its detractors. The foremost division proceeds from the perceived existence of an avenging angel by a religious majority. There are those who believe the angel's intervention and several subsequent deaths is a preposterous invention of a corrupt police department and elected officials.
The city is home to an anti-trafficking agency-SAFE-and a runaway victim of a human trafficker invites evil in from a thousand miles away.
State officials have kept a wary eye on the violent deaths in the city, and when a massage therapist is found brutally murdered, Police Chief Theodore Storm has no choice but to team up with the State Department of Criminal Investigation.
Angels of the Night features an engaging community of characters with a decidedly Midwestern view of the evils encroaching on their city. Do they believe in the existence of the angel? Some say yes and some say maybe, but when human trafficking, drugs, and murder come to town, they won't say no to Heavenly help.
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The Men Who Loved Neon by J.D. Erickson
"The Men Who Loved Neon" is a novel of Americans struggling to survive in a world rendered dark by an electromagnetic pulse attack. Unshielded electronics no longer work. The action begins some time after the attack, and the sky is clearing. The government has relocated to an underground facility in northern Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. , and this necessarily closed and isolated system has given rise to unprecedented tyrannies. Another underground complex exists in Brooklyn, New York. The men and women in Brooklyn have been preparing for decades for such a time as this, with no less a goal than the restoration of the American Republic. The population of the United States has been severely decimated, but as a man named Harlan Addison says, "We are not the remnants of a great nation. We are our nation's guardians. We are America."
USS South Dakota Virginia Class Nuclear Submarine, SSN 790 is featured in The Men Who Loved Neon.
The earth survived; the skies were beginning to clear. Those who had survived the EMP attack were now engaged in a war to restore the Republic. “The Men Who Loved Neon” chronicles an apocalyptic time in America’s future wherein heroism is still an undercurrent, and the interests of activism and survival walk side by side.
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February 3, 2016
Photo: Commander Ronald L. Withrow, USS South Dakota (USN 790) and Sioux Falls author J.D. Erickson. My novel, “The Men Who Loved Neon” features the new Virginia Class submarine. The South Dakota is not yet ready for action, however the novel takes place in the future. Spoiler alert: USN 790 is on the side of the good guys!
Please see www.SSN790.org for more information. “The Men Who Loved Neon” is available as an e-book at Amazon.com/author/jderickson. You can read a chapter for free. For a bio and more on the novel, seejayart1948.wix.com/jderickson-author.
During the depression of the 1930s hoboes left signs for their fellow travelers. In The Men Who Loved Neon, I chose to allude to electrical signs, used by the "Neon people" to communicate with travelers in the rubble of the city. The resistor sign (like a "W") translates to resistance, for example.
Excerpt from The Men Who Loved Neon:
Fallah had vetoed burying the ex-cons and Demar backed her up. No one in the patrol objected.
“What we saw them do at the compound, they can rot,” Fallah said. “They killed and raped all their lives. Let’s see them kill their way out of hell,” she said. She flashed glaring eyes at Craig, who had appeared shocked at her vehemence.
She lowered her voice. “You think black people aren’t sick of wild animals murdering each other? You think blacks want to see a new country built for those guys?” she said.
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Author JD Erickson was born in a small town in South Dakota and now resides in Sioux Falls, the state’s largest city.
There’s a Whole Lot of Evil Going On
I was writing a novel set in Arizona about an order of monks, but news across the nation began to irritate me, (to put it mildly) and I penned a short story, “The Body in the Gutter.” There would be eight more short pieces, published together as “Angel Billy.”
The stories introduced a few small town law enforcement characters and an avenging angel. The idea grew out of a vengeful fantasy wherein with the stroke of a pen, I could right the wrongs being inflicted on my world.
The tenth story became a novel, “Angels of the Night.” As I realize now, those “wrongs”—abortion, the transgendered engaging with children at libraries, prostitution, and more—were a harbinger of a full-scale assault on civilization, the worst of which may never be divulged.
I view “Angels…” as a kind of primer. While it relies on the stories of real trafficked individuals, its scope is limited. It is a novel—a murder mystery. The news of human trafficking on an unheard of scale began to emerge before “Angels…” was finished. What details we have are nauseating to say the least.
May I suggest you seriously consider the existence of a world-wide human trafficking agenda perpetrated on our world by a criminal cabal? Because it is real.
While we are assured almost daily that these evils are being dealt with, we need to see arrests and prosecutions—and their end results.
JD Erickson 2022