ISBN 978-0-9867723-2-0
Fiction 261 pages
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Goueffic reminds us of how powerfully language can negatively affect attitudes. The story is a good yarn involving the kidnapping of protagonist “fem” by a strong male organization determined to crush “feme” independence. The ending is a riveting page turner, culminating in a modern day “shoot out” to the rescue –the outcome of which I won’t give away.
Landy Hall, Burlington ON
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"The right to rule is a struggle that has been fought of millennia and still lives on in everyday life. "Mandate of Heaven" is a novel spun out of the ideas that have formed our society. As modernism seeks to change things, it is threatened by an ancient order which seeks to return to the patriarchy, slavery and feudalism that made the world for thousands of years. Spinning a tale of life and our progress or lack there of, "Mandate of Heaven" is a unique read very much worth considering."
Midwest Book Review, Oregon July 2011
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THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN
The 'Mandate of Heaven' appears in China 221 BCE as a political and social philosophy, the right to rule given by heaven. In India Manu in 2400 BCE subjugates half the species to the other by law, Sloka V. The Romans in 200 BCE gives the husband authoritative control over his wife by law, the Manus. In Europe the right to rule is the Divine Right of Kings. Slavery is maintained until 1834 ACE.
The Mandate of Heaven revisits beliefs, rites and institutions established during the 4000 years of patriarchy, slavery and feudalism and places them smack in the middle of a modern context.
Assumed power and privilege, ad hoc departments, old laws, torture, secrets, ancient scrolls, violence, hard traditional attitudes play roles in the story of an abduction that derails side by side with modern technology, an educated public, intelligent police force, unusual sleuth hounds, electronic planning and high-speed resolution
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