The Mandate of Heaven (Paperback)

Fundamentalist, evangelist, and righteous groups pool their resources and energy to bring back Manu's law of subjugation in 2400 BCE. The Mandate of Heaven revisits beliefs, rites, and institutions established during the 4000 years of patriarchy, slavery, and feudalism, and places them smack in the middle of a modern context. Assumed power and privilege, ad hoc departments, old laws, torture, ancient scrolls, violence, and hard traditional attitudes play roles in an abduction that derails modern technology, an educated public, intelligent police forces, unusual sleuth hounds, electronic planning, and high-speed resolution.