A Howling Wind From the East
by AG Chacon
A Thriller
A wildfire wind. A fractured community. A father's desperate fight to save his son.
A black, howling wind carries more than just the dark soot of a wildfire across the affluent Southern California community of Dana Woods — it carries evil.
This once-peaceful neighborhood is now fractured by a toxic political climate, split between the powerful "red team" led by the influential Marsha Abbott and those who stand against the administration under Richard "Dick" Behren. As the division deepens, lines are drawn, loyalties are tested, and the community that once held together begins to tear itself apart.
In the middle of it all, retired physician Greg Chacon desperately fights a personal battle to save his genius son, Dan, whose descent into destructive bipolar mania threatens to unleash an unpredictable and devastating power on the world.
A Howling Wind From the East is a novel about what happens when political tribalism meets personal crisis — when a community too busy fighting itself fails to notice the real danger building in its own backyard. The wind is coming. And it's carrying more than smoke.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for readers who are drawn to stories where the political and the personal collide — where a community's fractures create space for something dangerous to take root. It's for anyone who has watched a neighborhood, a town, or a country split down the middle and wondered what happens to the people who fall through the cracks.
If you appreciate Jonathan Franzen's dissection of American communities, Tom Perrotta's suburban tensions, or Jodi Picoult's intersection of family crisis and larger social forces, this novel operates in similar territory — with a thriller's pace.
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