The Fire was first, and we are its Shadow...       The Iron Cage by Amos Keppler    332 tightly spaced pages. Hardcover edition. ISBN 978-82-91693-40-8    Release date April 30, 2025.    Sales price US $40, Europe 35 Euros, UK 30 pounds (probably considerably less on some online stores). The novel is 125 000 words.    June and Gail Forester Miami 1988 Mike Warren at an undisclosed location January 1988    Author's word From Eric Carr's Scrapbook From Eric Carr's Scrapbook       Some places you can buy this one and others, and description of other Amos Keppler novels    If the store near you desn't have the book or claim that they can't order it for you, give them the author, title and ISBN number and insist that they order it. Several of the world's largest distributors offer the book. That means it will be available also in non-english speaking countries. If you, for instance live on continental Europe and your store has an English language book section (which most stores have today), it should most definitely be available there.    Liz Warren and Azale Gallier Miami 1988 Liz and Ted Warren Las Vegas in the early days of June 1988       CONTACT mail    IMPORTANT: To at least prevent automatic generated Spam the e-mail address above is fake or/and incomplete. To send e-mail add 2 - the number 2 - before the @       Or use the yahoo-address below.    Secondary E-Mail: manofhood@yahoo.com       Amos on Twitter: @HoodedMan and @truindependence                THE BOOK    It is 1988 (western, Christian timeframe). The world has changed irrevocably. And it keeps changing.    It may not look that way. After the storm, there is calm. Ronald Reagan is still president of the United States. The United States and other important power centers remain. Everything looks the same. People shrug and tell themselves that nothing will ever truly change. But an unrest is brewing. Since the nineteen-sixties there have been urban guerilla groups fighting those power centers, in Europe, and also, sporadically in the United States and Japan, and other places besides.    The current world is a cage, he thinks, an iron grip strangling the Human Being, destroying everything making life worth living.    He has had enough. He has been preparing for years, and now is the time to strike, to strike back at the oppressors, with impunity. People gather around him. They have done so for years, as they gather around others.    So vulnerable, he thinks. They are all so vulnerable. Ted, Liz, Eric, Frank, June, Ethel, Nick, Carla and the rest. They do not know what to do with the world, with themselves, but I do, and I am gonna show them, show them beyond doubt what must be done.    He is exploding during those few, critical spring moons, and the world is exploding with him. The stage is set, and this time the world is truly changed forever.       "- Humanity, the Human Being demands freedom from the shackles oppressing it, from the iron cage imprisoning it. We speak for humanity, for the Human Being, because no one else does".          Linda Cousin    The first book in the series The Defenseless       The texts and clippings on this website are gathered from many sources and viewpoints. My hope is that it will be known as the definite authority on The Janus Clan and Phoenix Green Earth, their life and struggle.    Images, text, music, art and web design Copyright Amos Keppler First night on the web 2025-03-19       There will always be Storytellers by the campfire.       Return to The Janus Clan main page Return to Midnight Fire Media main page Return to Firewind main page       Amos Keppler's stories, poems, music and art published on the web. 99 percent of everything published on the Midnight Fire Arena is done by him.