Brett Riley is a professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada. He grew up in southeastern Arkansas and earned his Ph.D. in contemporary American fiction and film at Louisiana State University. The published author of a body of short fiction, and the ghost thriller, ""Comanche,"" Riley has also won numerous awards for screenwriting. Riley lives in Henderson, Nevada.
The past is future in this sweaty, swampy, gun-slinging first cousin to dystopian classics like The Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451. -Stephen Scott Whitaker, co-editor of The Broadkill Review, and member of the National Book Critics Circle Brett Riley writes hard core action that should keep readers turning his pages, his literary point the hypocrisy and perfidy of extremist fundamentalisms that trample all freedom and humanity. -Douglas Unger, author of Leaving the Land, and Voices from Silence Through vivid scenes of battle and quiet moments of reflection, this engrossing novel brings us to the heart of these internal and external struggles and, ultimately, suggests a way toward redemption. -Beth Castrodale, author of In This Ground and Marion Hatley The writing, very to-the-point, without frills or unnecessary ornaments, is really good-tight, straight, charismatic, atmospheric, drawing me in and dragging me along in a relentless pace through the whole book. - Dieter Moitzi Goodreads.com To save mankind, people of faith must risk their lives, and their very souls. Lord of Order is a remarkable dystopian novel from the imaginative author of Comanche. - A.D. Hopkins, author of The Boys Who Woke Up Early -- Brett Riley