Title: The Generals of October
Author: John T. Cullen
Published: 2011
Publisher: Clocktower Books
Extension: EPUB
Size: 536 KB
Subjects: john t cullen
The Generals of October-a political suspense thriller centered on two young Army officers who uncover a plot to seize power in the U.S.-anticipates the worst U.S. crisis since the Civil War. And it's right around the corner, as vivid as tomorrow's scary headlines.This is not some wild, imaginary tale. There is a ticking time bomb in the U.S. Constitution, called Article V, which one day soon will spawn a nightmare that has been more than two centuries in the making.Young Army officers David Gordon and Victoria 'Tory' Breen must unravel a conspiracy of the treasonous Hotel Generals, who plan to hijack the Second Constitutional Convention (CON2). David and Tory must bring together the forces of tradition and reason-and help restore the original and true U.S. Constitution.Cpt. David Gordon is on a military intelligence mission, under cover as an Inspector General officer. Lt. Tory Breen is Executive Officer of the most ultra-secret military computer operations unit in the nation's capital. As prelude to a coup, her unit is highjacked by military extremists for a take-over of the United States, using CON2 as a Trojan Horse. One of her chief NCOs disappears-and may be brutally murdered by the extremist commandos of a long-dormant Government of Occupation reserve unit. Tory and David are sucked into the undercurrent of an investigation that leads to the coup plotters. The conspiracy bears the code name Operation Ivory Baton-and an image of Napoleon I, astride a horse, waving his imperial baton.Such U. S. military organizations are real. They exist in a gray network of shadowy, little-known reserve units. They were originally intended for U.S. forces occupying conquered foreign nations, like Germany after Hitler, but now they are employed to help the military govern a post-Constitutional U.S.Along the way, David and Tory fall in love. If their passionate but scattered wartime romance is to thrive, they must solve a terrible personal secret from her past life.This is the first book (fiction or nonfiction) to really think through a lot of the major issues. The government will be crippled overnight as the Constitution is so weakened as to be constructively suspended. The delegates will have a form of diplomatic immunity, putting them above the law (which is based on the old, crippled Constitution), and run wild. And then there are the Generals of October, who restore order by forcing their own unbending, tyrannical document on a nation exhausted by civil war.Several leading law school libraries have accepted this book for their reference collections-a rare honor for a work of fiction that hits home and is the most important thriller since Seven Days in May and The Manchurian Candidate.The time for CON2 is rapidly approaching, given the current climate of incivility, partisan destructiveness, and media brawling. The Generals of October is both a rousing, entertaining thriller, and a cautionary tale. The recipe for doom is right there, enshrined in the U.S. national contract.Can today's shallow, self-interested politicians really do better than the Framing Fathers who created our fundamental national document during the (First) Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, during the long hot summer of 1787?
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