Ask yourself these questions
if you came home tomorrow and found you had no power – your internet didn’t work, your computer was dead, and the last thing you heard on your car radio was that it was suspected that fuel for your car was radioactive – how would you react? And the next day your phone service died, and there were rumors of terrorist attacks in Rome, wiping out the Vatican, the Wailing Wall, the Grand Mosque, and West Point, how would you feel?
And when you attempt to go to the supermarket to stock up on food you run into a screaming armed mob, and barely escape with your life, what goes through your mind?
Who do you turn to? Where do you run to? How will your survive?
Welcome to The Tears of Hope, a psychological thriller that will take you to the edge of reason and back and maybe cause you to really think about your life.
Here’s what the critics say
The US Review of Books “The result is a masterclass of investigative acumen, psychological insight, and global coordination.”
HOLLYWOOD Book Reviews
“The writing style has a literary structure that crafts poignant visuals drawing you into the intensity of the moment, such as a mushroom cloud described with sooty grey contrails against the blue sky and compared to a canvas from Dante’s Inferno.”
Pacific Book Review
“The action and intensity of the plot balanced out the depth of relationship building that occurred with this cast of characters, from the protagonist’s own traumatic past that brought her into the field and into a life of government and military service, to the tragedies which befell the children who would become the faces behind the movement which these terrorists fuel their campaign with.”
Christina Avina-Professional BookReviewer
“As a fan of this genre, I was enthralled with the author’s writing and was even more moved by the rich themes developed in this book, including the heavy look at the morality behind those who are radicalized or brainwashed into committing such heinous actions after having witnessed or experiencing their own brand of injustice early on in life. The cycle of violence and destruction plays a major role in this thriller.”
I’m an Australian author, and just at the start of the pandemic I came across an article that said, “One child under ten years of age dies every eight minutes somewhere in a Refugee Camp.” Being a clinical and forensic psychologist, and a researcher, who has studied human behaviour for decades, I immediately fact checked the article.
I contacted Red Cross, Red Crescent, WHO, UNHCR, Save the children, Catholic Relief, CARE International, World Vision, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, and five International News Companies. They all said the same thing.
“The numbers vary, there are over fourteen million children in refugee camps around the world, and yes, there is a very high death rate, it might be as high as that, but no one knows for sure.”
That got me thinking. As a behavioural scientist, a practitioner, I asked myself, from years and years of experience in running huge Change Programs for Governments and Corporations, ‘how can I change the beliefs and attitudes of the entire world at the same time, and at a rate that will make a difference to the children who might die.’
And the Tears trilogy was borne. It took three and a half years to research and write, there are three books – The Tears of Hope; The Tears of Wonder (out in May); and The Tears of Joy (out in August). A fourth book, The Island of Tears, will be released around Christmas.
They are books of fiction, but at their heart there is a huge moral issue of the cost to humanity of the unceasing roar of technology, and the hurt it has done to family, and community.
Enjoy.
Peterahubbardbooks.com.
