ISBN: 978-3-9823166-2-8

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CHARLOTTE GRAHAM is a writer, artist, and caseworker. Born in Montreal but raised in the United States and Canada, she now lives in New York City. This is her debut novel.

For the publication, the author has created a series of illustrations specific to each of the chapters, along with a cover illustration.

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
by Charlotte Graham

A new kind of bomb is being built.

A girl grows up to destroy herself. A cattle farmer runs for president. A phantom haunts Western Massachusetts. A neuroscientist plays god. A housewife becomes a test subject. An activist group becomes a terrorist cell. The American Empire enters its penultimate chapter.

Though the scientists forging the bomb don't know it, the Peacemaker will be the end of us. But first, the fog settles. We are preoccupied with  falling in love; buying an election;  finding something to eat. From Montreal to Berlin, Manhattan to outer space, we are busy living and dying. Some of us are ghosts already.

A bittersweet elegy exploring secret desires, unspeakable thoughts, and disgusting impulses, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars studies how decisions are made under unbearable pressure, how power is created and destroyed, and how – sometimes – we are subject to forces even greater than ourselves.