Jag hade en hjärnlamp som titeln kunde ha varit en ordspets på "Sovjetunionen" och kom på " USSA "av Tom DeHaven.
It happened without warning. A media blackout, a military coup, and suddenly the U.S.A. became the U.S.S.A. — the United Secure States of America. Whatever they called it, it was still a police state. Overnight, rock music was banned, movies were censored, and outspoken teachers began to vanish. Soon, any person who dared question the new authorities was in danger as well.
Eddie Ludlow was just a regular high school student in a small Ohio town, but he know that somebody had to stand up to the new government before America was lost. He also knew there had to be others like him. A small, secret band of rebels was born. They took the same name the new authorities had given America and made it their own.
A brave new series of America's freedom fighters of tomorrow!
En av recensionerna för andra boken av SN Lewitt (jag antar att jag läste mer än jag kom ihåg) nämner motorcyklarna:
Grade 6-8 Successful series create fans with a varied cast of characters, a tangle of unresolved plot lines, and nonstop action, none of which are in evidence in this second book in this series. Eighteen months after a successful military coup, the U. S. (now the "United Secure States of America") is drifting without much difficulty toward a restrictive society, complete with censorship, ''disappearances,'' and a sinister youth organization (the Young Patriots League). The trivial plot something about recruiting gang members into the YPL by offering them hot new motorcycles that have a dangerous design flaw advances at a leisurely pace, while teen-age Eddie and his friends, none of whom exhibit much strength or intelligence, look on with increasing anxiety. The villains behind it all are never identified and never appear. Several times people hint at some form of resistance, but Eddie is left on the outside, and so are readers. John Peters, New York Public Library