Russell Hatler

Sanctuary I Russell Hatler

Sanctuary I: The First Secular Diaspora is a historical novel set 200 years in the future, looking back on the world we live in today. The narrator is Otto Baumgartner whose ancestors escaped from East Germany during the Cold War and subsequently emigrated to Hood River, Oregon, when they were doggedly pursued by the Stasi. Sanctuary I is the first in a planned trilogy. The story Otto tells is of an underground city in the Bob Marshall Wilderness named Sanctuary, built by a cadre of the uber rich to ward off the imminent threat of nuclear winter posed by the Cold War, followed by the existential threat of Climate Change and finally to provide for the very survival of the species in the wake of a worldwide pandemic.