Faultline 49

Faultline 49 is an alternate history novel by Joe MacKinnon (as David Danson) that re-imagines Canada, marred by American military checkpoints, re-contextualized 9/11 attacks, rubble, and riots. The story follows an American reporter through US-occupied Canada, and depicts his metamorphosis from a petulant talking head into a hunted revolutionary. It was published in 2012.

Faultline 49
AuthorJoe MacKinnon (as David Danson)
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCanadian-American War, post-9/11 politics and security, occupation, imperialism
Genregonzo journalism, war correspondence New journalism, political thriller, crime, survivalist fiction
PublisherGuy Faux Books
Publication date
2012
Media typePrint, Paperback
Pages257
ISBN978-0-9881640-2-4
Websitehttp://www.faultline49.com

The book centers around a Seattle reporter's (David Danson) gonzo-style trip through US-occupied Canada in search of the principal provocateur in the Canadian-American War: terrorist mastermind Bruce Kalnychuk. As Danson draws closer to the truth about the 2001 World Trade Center bombing in Edmonton, Alberta, and the criminal war it propagated, his journalistic distance to the story collapses, rendering him not only a brutalized participant, but a target of the US government.

Behind the facade of Canadian pulp fiction lies an engagement with the issues of imperial overstretch, occupation, and economic/cultural sovereignty on the fringe of the American Empire. Faultline 49 has been noted to be a "250-page thought exercise [that] swaps Edmonton with New York City, and also Canada with Iraq, Afghanistan and other nations in a buildup of violence, fabrication and barely concealed geopolitical oil interests."[1]

David Danson is a fictional personality. The actual author is Joe MacKinnon. David Danson was used to advance the simulacra.

Publication
  • Danson, David (2012). Faultline 49, Guy Faux Books. 978-0-9881640-2-4.

Footnotes
  1. Griwkowsky, Fish. "Novel Sets 9/11 in Edmonton". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia. Archived from the original on December 10, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
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