WHAT I HAVE JUST COMPLETED: FOUR LETTER WORDS

This is a difficult subject, mentally and emotionally to tackle: Domestic extremism. The FBI labels Domestic Extremism (DE) the greatest threat to our nation. Not China, not Russia, ourselves. Extremism takes on many forms, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, anti-government, to name a few. Accelerant was a term that grabbed me. It’s a term for those that view a new order they would prefer can be achieved through the chaos of bringing down societal order. Valentina Webb will return…

A SEQUEL TO FOUR LETTER WORDS: TROIKA

·When the CIA’s Valentina Webb’s prized Hezbollah informant is assassinated in front of her in Paraguay, she uncovers a Russian and Iranian plan to bring an end to America’s role as a superpower.    

FACT: 25-30% of Hezbollah revenues are derived by its Paraguay operations.

· FACT: Per capita, the Caribbean island of Trinidad sent more jihadists to fight with ISIS than any other country. In 1990 it was also the site of the first Islamist coup in the western hemisphere.

· FACT: Russia, Iran and Hezbollah formed an alliance in Syria.

· FACT: Russia believes asymmetrical warfare as the only means of reintegrating its former satellite Republics.

COMPLETED: A GAGE LOCKWOOD NOVEL: ALBEDO

Albedo: the degree to which light is reflected by a surface. Gage Lockwood, a member of the CIA’s special activities center, is thrust into choosing between family and country when he learns that his family secrets are darker than most. Secrets that extend to the CIA and the halls of Congress, in a plot to accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice that will catastrophically raise global sea levels in order to open up new sources of natural resources a green economy requires.

COMPLETED: A GAGE LOCKWOOD NOVEL: CURRENTS

The Rocky Mountain West and the sprawling Navaho Nation are the settings of a novel exploring Wall Street’s affection with and foreign entities’ lust for water, the world’s most precious resource. How far will some go to control America’s destiny in the 21st century? Gage Lockwood, the son of a third generation rancher in rural Colorado gave up the West for the Army Rangers. Leaving the Army, he joined the CIA’s elite special activities division. He’s not a man whose family and country one should mess with.