The Silicon Dagger

When his reporter brother is murdered, Clay Barstow travels to a small Kentucky town to investigate and discovers a hotbed of conspiracy. As the number of suspects mounts, the truth remains hidden behind a storm of lies, and soon he finds himself framed for murder and hunted by the murderous local militia. Everything centers around a new technology hinted at in the notes of Clay's brother, something called the silicon dagger—a technology of astonishing power. As Clay desperately seeks his brother's killer and the secrets of the silicon dagger, he finds that it may just allow the people of this small town to do what no one has dared in a hundred and fifty years—declare independance from the United States of America....