Unholy Domain

by: Dan Ronco

Published by: Kunati

Reviewed By Michele E. Davis

Set in 2022, Ronco delivers a world that vaguely resembles our current one, with several twists. In 2012 a virus called PeaceMaker, an Internet virus that caused over a million deaths in the United States alone, creates chaos, but from the chaos comes a world driven by greed, technology and fanaticism. After the virus attack religious fanaticism in the form of the Church of Natural Humans led by First Minister Adam Jordan converted a portion of the population. Jordan took Moesha Jefferson under his wing and groomed her into a killing machine for his Army of God. The focus is to kill Technos, who are technology, software and hardware specialists, as well as the underground market that exists for the distribution of new technology prohibited by the U.S. Federal government.

Raymond Brown was supposedly the creator of PeaceMaker and a computer-generated message was sent to his son, David, when he turned 21 years old. The cyber message insists that Ray was innocent and he tried to dismantle the lethal code but was unable to do it. David believes in his father’s innocence and begins a quest to clear his father’s name, falling in love along the way, with a protégée of his fathers.

Excellent plot, even if it does seem to be created by a bi-polar computer scientist that has sexist tendencies, and a paranoid view of the government and right-wing fundamentalist religious-based organizations. Unholy Domain makes its message clear: the government should worry about how dangerous their citizens are, not the other way around.

Armchair Interviews says: Quick and easy sci-fi read if you can handle all the sexual innuendo and brutal killing.

Author’s Web site: http://www.DanRonco.com