In a starred Kirkus review, American Neolithic was called "a towering work of speculative fiction that will have readers rethinking what it means to be human." kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/terence-hawkins/american-neolithic/ America is a Police State Lite.   Drones patrol the skies. The Patriot Amendments have gutted civil liberties. The Homeland Police and Patriot Tribunal have exclusive jurisdiction over all legal actions implicating national security. Enter Blingbling, the last literate member of the sole surviving band of Neanderthals,  sent into the world to earn money for his people, who live in hiding on Manhattan's Lower East Side.  After he is implicated in a hip-hop murder, shadowy benefactors retain a lawyer, the hard-boiled Raleigh.
