The Bone Traders

ISBN: 1482752441

Author: Roper, Mark

Condition: New

Product Description "Mad Max" meets Blue Velvet Its 2026. The world has suffered massive deprivation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that survived natures warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate. The elderly were less fortunate. They were left abandoned to live in sweltering heat and forced to recreate a past life that is void of a baby's cry. Can two separate communities where dying has become an industry continue to survive? The disillusioned Reverend Dickinson shepherds his ageing community by false-hope, whilst, a few miles away, Trader barters life for death using a macabre reminder of the past to gain economic superiority. In the midst stands the beautiful young woman, Danya. Protected by her shotgun wielding, abrasive mother, Danya is the only remaining hope of escaping the poverty and aridness that surround them all. Into this environment, a young man arrives accompanied by Dog, a scavenger of the sky. Joe communicates with the dead and is able to learn the secrets of the past and, consequently, change the future.He is gifted with the ability to use his internal,positive energy to traverse the often hostile and temperamental gap in time left between life and death.Every moment Joe spends in the past is a personal sacrifice and what he dangerously learns may, or may not, agree with the insatiability of those around him. I am Dog. It is not because he fears pain that he bites into the leather, but for the fear of past horrors and being forever entrapped by them. From the Author The Bone Traders is based on an original screenplay that I wrote after spending some months in a desolate area of the Karoo in South Africa. I witnessed a people without a future, and, as it happens, one thing led to another. In writing the novel version of the story, I have, perhaps dangerously, remained true to the structure of the screenplay --Traders is an imaginative and paced read where I have allowed the reader to imagine the visual and, simultaneously, put aside the popcorn for a glass of wine. Thank you for reading. From the Inside Flap When you have no future, all you have left is the past. From the Back Cover   When you have no future, all you have left is the past. The solar storm, as you remember, lasted for eight months. The crust of this planet was scarred with disaster zones. Those that survived, mainly the young, managed to migrate. The elderly were less fortunate. Two separate communities left struggling to survive. The disillusioned Reverend Dickinson shepherds his elderly community by false-hope, Trader surviving off the possessions of the deceased. In the midst stands the beautiful young woman Danya. Protected by her shotgun wielding, abrasive mother, Danya is the only hope remaining to escape the poverty and aridness that surround them all. That is, until Joe arrives accompanied by Dog. "I am Dog. It is not because he fears pain that he bites into the leather, but for the fear of past horrors and being entrapped by them." "This is my collection - my archive. Here survive the dead -- their history continues. A library of the power of collected Time - just waiting to be read, just waiting for the light."  "We see the consequences of what your father and politicians like him did. You only have to look out that window to know what I mean. No one man, no one town has the right to own and control everything. Not even one country come to think of it. He turned the living into bones." About the Author Mark was born in South Africa. He lived in Swaziland in the 1960's and returned there in the 70's. His unconventional life has led him to many parts of th