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Nu-EvermoreNu-Evermore is the intense novel by Peter Magliocco. A 101-page paperback, it is published by Trafford, who had this to say about it:

Partly a sci-fi thrilller, NU-EVERMORE is a novel of suspense, intrigue, and philosophical content, with some fabulist satirical overtones. A strong story-line mostly in third-person sustains the plot throughout. It is inventive enough to bridge the gap between the small press and mainstream publishers of quality literary work ...
Several major characters are noteworthy, such as young T.K. Keller, who provides a central viewpoint for the novel. In the year 2037, Keller is a young American expatriate, A.W.O.L. in Amsterdam from the U.S. Army, troublesomely enmeshed in terrorist activities. He's hoping to retrieve a friend's kidnapped little boy from European terrorists known as Der Feuer, or the Puma Band. The other major characters -- such as T.K.'s mentor Raul Macon, the Joan of Arc-like Christina Alpreece, and the guerrilla German leader Gunther Hoffler -- alternate in sharing focal viewpoints throughout plot development.
For political purposes the terrorists abduct a prominent American businessman, Vincent Tomasi, a vital link for the Pumas attempting to discover the whereabouts of a controversial chemical toxin, the Medulla Raze, which supposedly paralyzes the intellectual faculties of soldiers in warfare. The surreal seach for the Raze throughout Germany, from military installations to forested feral caves, provides adventure in a literary vein also, as Keller and Macon match wits with the terrorists and Christina, a supernatural beauty. Their interactive struggles form the integral climax of the novel in chapters formally inventive and suspensefully entertaining, where the future remains elusively around a corner of curved space.
In Nu-Evermore, the future is indefinite and plagued by governmental interference, and political wars rule in an era of ultra-techno ambiguity; some extraterrestrial elements enter into the novel's time-frame (where past events in 20th Century history are revived for renewal in the 21st), and the world's weather is bizarrely locked in a neo-Ice Age, making it imperative for the protagonists to succeed before the earth aborts its renewal with deep-and-ultraspace elements.

Nu-Evermore retails for $11 and can be ordered directly from Trafford Publishing. More information on it is available at City Life newspaper and Books & Authors.