Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Truth, power, loyalty-and the price of standing up when powerful institutions want you silent.Xavier is an unlikely soldier. Raised in foster care after losing his mother, he enters adulthood carrying the scars of an unstable childhood and a determination to build the family and future he never had. In the Army, an exceptional mentor helps him discover his abilities, teaching him how technology, discipline, and careful thinking can turn an ordinary soldier into someone capable of solving extraordinary problems.Then Xavier discovers something that changes everything.A security project leads him to a rural California town and evidence of a secret biological laboratory containing dangerous infectious agents. As Xavier attempts to report what he has found, his concerns collide with military bureaucracy, government institutions, political pressure, and competing narratives about what constitutes truth. He is labeled an extremist and placed on a no-fly watchlist, only to find himself summoned to testify before Congress.But the battle does not end in the hearing room.As Xavier navigates institutional power, information warfare, surveillance, and threats that reach far beyond the Army, he must decide how much he is willing to risk for what he believes is true. At the same time, his relationship with Audrey opens the possibility of something he has wanted since childhood: love, family, stability, and a home of his own.Blending political satire, military suspense, social commentary, romance, and technological intrigue, Life in Woke America follows one man’s journey from foster-care survivor to soldier, entrepreneur, witness, and reluctant warrior in a world where truth and power rarely occupy the same side of the table.A story of survival, institutional power, personal freedom, love, and the search for truth in a deeply divided America.
