The next great battle between liberty and tyranny is about to begin...
From award-winning and Amazon best-selling author Mikael Carlson, known for gripping political thrillers and speculative fiction such as Justifiable Deceit, The Eyes of Others, and the America, Inc. Saga, comes a chilling dystopian thriller that explores a world where corporations rule, surveillance is absolute, and freedom has become a forgotten luxury. Blending the political intrigue of House of Cards, the dystopian warning of 1984, and the power struggles of Game of Thrones, The Black Swan Event launches an epic saga about the future of liberty itself.

"The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality."--Review by Book Excellence ?????

After the global economic collapse of 2039 brought governments to their knees, the world descended into chaos. Violence spread, economies collapsed, and nations fell apart. Then the corporations stepped in.

They restored order. They rebuilt society. They eliminated crime, unemployment, and poverty.

They also eliminated freedom.

Nearly fifty years later, the world is safe, efficient, and completely controlled. Every citizen is monitored. Every transaction is tracked. Every word analyzed. People are no longer citizens -- they are employees of the corporate state, cogs in a machine designed to enrich the elite and maintain perfect order.

Most people accept this new reality. Not all of them do.

When an underground resistance group detonates an explosion that disrupts trading on the world's single stock exchange, a chain reaction begins that threatens the entire corporate system. Executives, politicians, military leaders, and revolutionaries scramble for power as alliances shift, betrayals unfold, and a series of unpredictable black swan events pushes the world toward either total corporate domination... or total collapse.

In a world where safety was purchased with freedom, one question remains:

Was the price too high?

As rebellion spreads and the surveillance state tightens its grip, the line between terrorist and patriot begins to blur. Because when liberty is gone, those who fight for it are always called criminals.

Liberty or tyranny. Control or freedom. Order or chaos.
The future of humanity hangs in the balance.

"The Black Swan Event is unapologetic in its honesty about how the world works but Mikael Carlson adds a Big Brother element to enshrine control, cripple the masses, and make the illusion of safety a pretext for what has the terrifying appearance of martial law and a military dictatorship in corporate form." -- Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite ?????

Awards & Recognition

• Silver Medal - The BookFest Awards (Dystopian - Society & War)

• Silver Medal - Global Book Awards (Military)

• Finalist - American Fiction Awards (Political Thriller)

• Longlist - Page Turner Book Awards (Best Thriller)

• Pinnacle Book Achievement Award


The America, Inc. Saga is a sweeping dystopian political thriller series exploring what happens when corporations replace governments, freedom becomes a memory, and the fight for liberty becomes the most dangerous crime in the world.

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• Crime, Thriller & MysteryThrillersPolitical
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• Publication Date: June 1, 2022
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• Print Length: 363 Pages
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