Last Place Called Home: A Novel

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As the secret federal sting operation Snakehead targets the fentanyl trade, the small mill town of Stanton, Massachusetts, becomes a battlefield in the war on drugs and three mothersnewspaper reporter Laura Everett, businesswoman Mimi Sullivan, and machinist Angie Gillenmust overcome their differences and confront their pasts to keep their troubled teenagers out of the crossfire.

Help comes from unexpected quarters when several Stanton cops break ranks with their superiors after learning that Snakeheads real mission is to militarize the police and northern border. Stakes rise as the opioid crisis deepens and Mimis daughter sinks further into depression and heroin addiction. Lauras and Angies sons try to save her, but their efforts only place her more at risk and she is forced to run away. Ultimately, the deadly violence being perpetrated all around herby gangs, dealers, and those running the Snakehead operationcompels Laura to dig deep within herself for the power to take charge.

A fast-paced, multilayered thriller that reveals the high human costs of the drug war, Last Place Called Home is also a story about love and loyalty to family, friends, and place. Stanton is a hard place to live inbut its an even harder place to leave.

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Author, scholar, and activist Betsy Hartmann addresses critical national and global challenges in her books, articles, and public appearances. She is the author of the feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrong: The Global Politics of Population Control and most recently of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness. Eerily prescient, her two political thrillers, The Truth about Fire and Deadly Election, explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Betsy did her undergraduate degree at Yale University and her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is professor emerita of Development Studies at Hampshire College, where she taught for twenty-eight years. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. For more on Betsy, visit http://betsyhartmann.com.