New World Order Stories Author:Derek Green In this collection of richly varied stories, Derek Green takes readers on a tour of the world as America's military-industrial complex reels into a new century. Written with grace, masterful precision and brutal honesty, New World Order shows us characters stripped of the familiar and forced to face the world on its own terms. In Iraq a young ma... more »n in search of a fortune makes a bargain he never imagined. An adventure journalist on assignment in Australia finds himself at the center of his own harrowing story. In charge of an American company in Mexico, a powerful woman finds strength through submission. By turns frightening and comical, fierce and suspenseful, these eleven stories turn our attention outward, to a world where our role as Americans is no longer as clear and secure as it once seemed. With exotic settings, sharply rendered characters and quick-moving plots, New World Order announces the arrival of a powerful literary voice, and places Derek Green in the tradition of such worldly writers as Graham Greene, Paul Bowles and Robert Stone.« less