Faultline 49

Faultline 49
Author David Danson
Country Canada
Language English
Subject Canadian-American War, post-9/11 politics and security, occupation, imperialism
Genre gonzo journalism, war correspondence New journalism, political thriller, crime, survivalist fiction
Publisher Guy Faux Books
Publication date
 2012
Media type Print, Paperback
Pages 257
ISBN 978-0-9881640-2-4
Website http://www.faultline49.com

Faultline 49 is an alternate history by fictional personality David Danson that re-imagines Canada, marred by American military checkpoints, re-contextualized 9/11 attacks, rubble, and riots. The story follows an American reporter through US-occupied Canada, and depicts his metamorphosis from a petulant talking head into a hunted revolutionary. It was published in 2012.

The book centers around a Seattle reporter's (David Danson) gonzo-style trip through US-occupied Canada in search of the principal provocateur in the Can-American War: terrorist mastermind Bruce Kalnychuk. As Danson draws closer to the truth about the 2001 World Trade Center Bombing in Edmonton, Alberta, and the criminal war it propagated, his journalistic distance to the story collapses, rendering him not only a brutalized participant, but a target of the US government.

Behind the facade of Canadian pulp fiction lies an engagement with the issues of imperial overstretch, occupation, and economic/cultural sovereignty on the fringe of the American Empire. Faultline 49 has been noted to be a "250-page thought exercise [that] swaps Edmonton with New York City, and also Canada with Iraq, Afghanistan and other nations in a buildup of violence, fabrication and barely concealed geopolitical oil interests."[1]

David Danson is a fictional personality. The actual author is Joe MacKinnon. David Danson was used to advance the simulacra.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Griwkowsky, Fish. "Novel Sets 9/11 in Edmonton". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia. Retrieved January 15, 2013.

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