Richard Kennedy – författare

Anna Weaver has spent eleven years working the forests of the Ozarks. She believes in what she can see, measure, and document—until the day the forest stops behaving like a forest.Dead birds begin appearing without cause. The air turns still. The silence deepens. And somewhere in the backcountry, something feels… wrong.When Anna follows that wrongness off the trail, she finds herself stepping through a thin place in reality—into the Between, a hidden layer of existence where the boundaries between worlds are breaking down.There, she meets those who walk the margins:A man who has been waiting for something he cannot stopA pathfinder who exists half in and half out of realityA trickster who may be ally, enemy… or bothAnd beneath it all, something older than myth is stirring.A force known only as the Devourer—a hunger that cannot take what is not given, but waits patiently for the moment when people choose to surrender.As the walls between worlds weaken, the corruption begins to spread—not just in the Between, but back in Anna's world as well.Now, she must decide:Walk away and return to the life she understands…or step fully into a war she was never meant to fight.Because some doors don't just open.They remember who walked through them.

Betrayal and Treason is a sweeping, unapologetic political history of the Democrat Party, tracing what Richard L. Kennedy argues is a 200-year pattern of constitutional betrayal, crisis exploitation, and centralized control.Beginning with Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal, and the expansion of slavery, Kennedy follows the party's institutional path through secession, the Civil War, Reconstruction resistance, Jim Crow, Woodrow Wilson's administrative state, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Dust Bowl narrative, modern climate politics, and immigration policy. At the center of the book is what Kennedy calls the Betrayal Template: a recurring process in which natural or social crises are re-framed as moral emergencies, dissent is condemned, government power expands, and temporary measures become permanent control.This is not a neutral survey of American politics. It is a prosecutorial brief. Kennedy challenges the accepted story of progressive reform and argues that the same political instinct that defended slavery, resisted civil rights, and expanded federal power continues to operate under new language and new emergencies.For readers interested in constitutional history, conservative political analysis, American party history, and critiques of centralized government, Betrayal and Treason offers a forceful, provocative argument: America's founding inheritance was purchased in blood, and every generation must decide whether to preserve it, reclaim it, or surrender it.

In the fall of 1902, a group of boys in the young frontier town of Ripley, Oklahoma form a brotherhood they call the River Rats—a loose guild bound not by rules, but by courage, curiosity, and the pull of the wild Cimarron River.What begins as boyhood adventure soon becomes something far more dangerous.Beyond the familiar swimming holes and cottonwood banks lies a harsher world—of shifting sandbars, hidden caves, violent storms, and men who live outside the law. When a sudden twister drives the boys into a cave for shelter, they stumble upon something they were never meant to witness… and find themselves hunted by killers who cannot afford to leave witnesses behind.Lost without supplies, pursued through unfamiliar country, and forced to break every rule they were ever taught, the River Rats must rely on grit, loyalty, and each other to survive.This is a story of:Brotherhood forged in dangerThe unforgiving land that shaped OklahomaAnd the moment when boys become something moreThe river will test them. The country will try them.And not all of them will come out the same.