Military Rule: The Return of the Mandeville - Softcover

Mark S. Bennison's second novel is a gripping account of life imitating art in the most terrible way, when fiction becomes reality and imagination transforms itself into a dark, boding future. Time travel, spiritual fanaticism and military ruthlessness are rolled into a story which details the potential control of the entire world by the use of our greatest friend, the computer. If you thought General Mandeville was scary in his first incarnation, wait till you see what he gets up to this time. Gripping from the start, Bennison's novel takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride that jangles the nerves. Don't expect to sleep well after reading the last three chapters --Mike Hallowell, The Shields Gazette

A writer uses his imagination to create intriguing characters and a gripping storyline, and author Mark had achieved this in creating his debut novel, Military Rule. But the boundary between imagination and reality is challenged beyond all belief when a character supposedly killed off in his book rises like a phoenix from the ashes: General Mandeville - no longer Mark’s creation but now completely beyond his control and his own, even more dangerous being, determined to be the Lord’s Second Coming and establish military rule on Earth under his command. Suddenly author/character roles appear to have become reversed and Mark finds himself caught between two factions - the white-eyed of Mandeville’s Network and the red-eyed splinter group - representing the Lord and Allah respectively, each trying to influence Mark’s imagination of the truth and represent their own version of the book of revelations to humankind. Mark’s choices are no longer those of the author of a work of fiction: the path he takes now will literally determine the future of the world.