Plague Journal by Michael O'Brien

A dissident journalist and single father keeps a clandestine diary while on the run from a burgeoning soft-totalitarian regime in a near-future North American country. As authorities twist child-protection laws and manipulate media to crush dissent, he struggles to protect his young daughter, hold fast to conscience and faith, and bear witness to truth amid the erosion of civil liberties.

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