Future historians won’t call this “The Information Age.” They’ll call it The Great Fail: the moment humanity had everything it needed to avert disaster and still chose collapse.

But this is not a book of despair. It’s a survival manual and manifesto. If you’ve ever felt that the world is collapsing around you—and wondered how to live, act, and create meaning anyway—After the Great Fail is your guide.

On the day you were born, your parents kissed you sweetly on the forehead—and tossed you out of a Cessna Caravan flying at 14,000 feet.

That’s the human condition. We are all hurtling toward the ground, whether we admit it or not. The question is not if we will hit. The question is: What will you do with the fall?

This is a raw, riveting field manual for life at terminal velocity. With wit, grit, and unflinching honesty, Life Is Skydiving Without a Parachute distills the freefall into 30 searing lessons on how to live fully in the seconds you have

Gabe, Allie, and Max never set out to be heroes. But when their activist friend Renato is killed for exposing the truth, they vow to take up his fight for a political reform so explosive, it threatens to dismantle the corrupt system that’s been strangling democracy for decades. Can they survive long enough to expose the truth, or will the system chew them up and spit them out before the revolution even begins?

Thrilling, pulse-pounding, and packed with political intrigue, Concerned Citizens is the ultimate story of ordinary people rising up against impossible odds.