WIX
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Treline Publishing
ISBN-10: 0692334130
Pages: 330
Copyright: Dec. 6, 2014
ISBN-13: 9780692334133
Price: $12.95 (eBook)
Near Present Time, United States of America
With seven months remaining in his first term, President Harold Barriman is weathering fierce opposition. Despite a likable personality, the president finds himself in a political firestorm. The liberal agenda he campaigned on, and narrowly won with, is enraging conservatives, libertarians, and independents as the emerging details impact everyday American life. The president and his powerful Chief of Staff, Brandon (Badge) Demarche, are steering America down a very different path for its citizens. Overreach using executive orders infuriates conservatives. Legal challenges are stalled through a treasonous network originating within the White House.
Under President Barriman, the nation’s debt has risen to $26 trillion, the economy is weakening and near collapse. Months before his next election, President Barriman signs a $12.6 trillion financial aid package with China to fund a massive government stimulus program. The guarantee terms drive America to a Chinese “client state”. Chinese leaders force their influence over the compromised Demarche, threatening a military rule around Washington DC led by Chinese forces.
Dalton learns of a plot to assassinate the emerging leaders by of the New Libertarian Party through his newly discovered half-brother, Declan Faden Crusoe. Dalton learns he too has become a target for elimination by the reclusive assassination group protected from within the international construction firm Adrestia LTD. Dalton struggles to unravel the threat, protect his friend Ed Kosko, halt the president’s agenda, and protect his hunted half-brother―the answers force Dalton into lethal, conflicting choices as the deadline for the Convention nears and the national elections approach.
Lines are drawn, the tension grows and lethal decisions are made.
TREVAE/The RISING SEDITION PRELUDE/SYNOPSIS
Near Present Time, United States of America
Five months remaining in his first term, President Harold Barriman is facing a storm of opposition. The liberal agenda he narrowly won with is enraging conservatives, libertarians, and independents. Thirty-four states have rallied support for a Convention of States as provided by Article V of the Constitution to reverse the liberal agenda. Under Barriman, and his powerful Chief of Staff, Badge Demarche, the nation’s debt has risen to $26 trillion, the economy is near collapse. Months before his next election, Barriman signs a $12.6 trillion financial aid package with China to fund a massive government stimulus program. Many controversial provisions, added to the aid package, have Americans divided against each other. In order to get the Chinese financial aid, Congress approved unprecedented intrusion by a foreign power into our nation’s sovereignty: a non-aggression treaty limiting the US military action except through United Nations approval; gun ownership is limited in style and type; ammunition production is taken over by the government and dispensed only through a lottery system; a five year price freeze is put in place; confiscatory taxation is put on businesses and high income taxpayers; and the president’s Economic Council is headed by a Chinese diplomat.
Most disturbing are the guarantee terms of the bail-out: title to development and mineral rights on 240 million acres of federal lands for fifty years. Most of the lands are in Alaska, western, and the Great Lakes states bordering Canada. A new “ recovery currency”, guaranteed by the Chinese government, similar to a twenty-dollar bill is introduced which is pegged at 2.5 times the US ten-dollar bill, and has small Chinese images and words displayed throughout.
Americans forge a ground swell of change coalition around a political action group, Pathroads for America, promoting Ed Kosko. He agrees to assist his friend and mentor, retired NSA head to become the New Libertarian party candidate for President. A date was set, October 24th, in Dallas Texas, for a vote to approve the Governance Amendments to the US Constitution and return the country to sovereign control refuting the agenda of President Barriman and his followers.
Dalton learns of a plot to assassinate the emerging leaders by of the New Libertarian Party through his newly discovered half-brother, Declan Faden Crusoe. Dalton struggles to unravel the threat, protect Kosko, halt the president’s agenda, and save his hunted half-brother―the answers force Dalton into lethal, conflicting choices as the deadline for the Convention vote nears and the national elections approach.
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