The Cause (The Minutemen Series #1)
Roderick Vincent
Genre: Dystopian Thriller
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The second American Revolution will be a fire lit from an internal spark.
The year is 2022. America is on the verge of economic and social collapse. The government has made individual freedom its enemy. African American hacker Isse Corvus enters a black-ops training camp. He discovers the leaders are revolutionaries seeking to return the U.S. back to its Constitutional roots. Soon the camp fractures. Who is traitor? Who is patriot? Corvus learns that if he doesn’t join The Cause and help them hack the NSA’s servers, it could mean his life. If he joins, he becomes part of a conspiracy to overthrow America’s financial oligarchy.
NSA Director Titus Montgomery is building a system to pacify America’s instigators. He is told by the President rule of law must be maintained at all costs. What happens when martial law meets revolution?
The Cause is a dystopian thriller taking many topical issues to the next logical level. The dense web of the NSA’s previous generation’s surveillance system has been supplanted by a new, more ruthless one. Robotic warfare, drones, quantum computers, Anonymous, the NSA, and a cast of conniving characters, this novel takes you on a manifest journey on how a new revolution could be born.
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The Cause follows the story of a man, Isse Corvus, who has lived a life full of strife and tragedy yet made himself into a man of fight and strength. The world has changed, set in 2022, in the not so distant future. We see a world that is slowing edging into chaos and destruction with the financial and economical collapse of the USA. Propaganda is at an all time high, covering up the real tragedies and chaos, showing a world that the government will save, despite the fact that they have a hand in the corruption. This book is broken into two parts, the first being at the Abattior, in the jungles of who knows where at an intensely dangerous and terrifying training camp meant to turn CIA recruits into Minutemen, people without fear and emotion, armed with incredible skills and talents to infiltrate the world at hand and bring about change. The second part is post training back in the “real” world to put that training and ideology into practice, attempting to bring about reformation and a new world, bringing back the foundation that the US was built on.
This book is all about the grey area: where the end justifies the means. It reads like a high intensity action movie in which you never know what will happen next. When I first began reading the book, it took me a bit to get into the grove of the story. There are flashbacks and time jumps and so much talk of ideology, government, and how the world has spiraled out of control that it takes a bit to envision the world as Roderick Vincent sees it. The world is still very similar, in a strikingly eerie way that has a note of premonition and likelihood, with many other nuances that differentiate the world we know from the one you read in The Cause.
Isse Corvus is a man on a mission, filled with convictions and determination to make the world a better place. He has been through so much strife and sadness in his life, which allows him to be a realistic hero, plagued with hard choices and a reality of life. It makes him pragmatic, looking for the truth and weighing all the options. He has a hero’s heart mixed with a martyr’s mentality. Throughout the first part, we see Isse grow and make hard choices. There are scenes that are terrifying and some that are horrific. The world he steps into is harsh, yet his doubts and fears are flushed out. His comrades work side by side to train and step up when duty calls. When their time in the Abbattior is up, they are sent into the world with a mission to support the work of the Minutemen and be an instigator of change.
This book is full of choices that each and every character must make. They were trained in a cruel, unforgiving world and later enter into the pretty facade of US to put their training and patriotism into action. This book is gripping, full of intrigue, action, adventure, and power. It will make you step back and think about the world we live in and the possibility of such downfall. The ending leaves the world of the Minutemen open to more and I am excited to see where Roderick Vincent takes this adventure. If you love Dystopian Thrillers and military action novels, then make sure to pick up this book today. It is not my usual go to genre but it was a book I am glad to have read! I am excited for more Isse and the Minutemen.