Danny Wright never thought he\'d be the man to bring down the United States of America.
With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a provocative plot that asks what happens when the states are no longer united, Divided We Fall is Trent Reedy\'s very timely YA debut..
And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.
The governor swears to protect them.
The president wants the soldiers arrested. but then Danny\'s gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd, and by the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead.
When the Guard is called up on the governor\'s orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission ...
In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did.
Danny Wright never thought he\'d be the man to bring down the United States of America