What if the United States really was not the land of the government of the people, by the people, for the people? What if instead of the duly elected President and Congress, there was a second, secret corporate organization with Government ties dominating the affairs of state within the United States? Was Pearl Harbor a plot conceived by Roosevelt and Churchill to get an isolationist U.S. into WWII? What force thrust Harry Truman into a position to lead us into the atomic age? How was he elected, and who really killed JFK? Why did Lyndon Johnson leave the White House at the height of the Vietnam War? Why did we stop at the gates of Baghdad during the first Desert War against Saddam Hussein? The political and military leaders of the latter sixty years of the 20^th Century come alive in these pages, and the historical events actually took place. Where does the line between fiction and historical fact become blurred? The answer to all of these questions is Knight’s Code.

A man from a traditional Irish family decides to be a movie star with the help of family and friends he succeeds. He is enamored with the power that seems to accrue with stardom. Weary of this he decides to take advantage of his celebrity and make a career change. Thinking that his starpower status will service him well in politics. It does and he gets elected. An act which claims the life of an assistant clouds his future. He avoids accepting responsibility and pays a price. Will it destroy him politically?

Urban Politics: The Political Culture of Gangs is a juxtaposition of street gang organizations and government theory and organization. It is a civil philosophy reference book that examines street gang behavior and culture in an unconventional way. It assesses political phenomenon such as: social contracts, the media, political parties, city council structures, budgeting, and other forms of political conduct, within a street gang organization context. Urban Politics offers a unique perspective into gang culture that challenges the reader to view street gang organizations from the inside with a creative slant. Urban Politics is a fascinating, yet horrifying insight into the underground culture of street gang organizations.

When writing a historical novel which reaches into the future, it is important to select a setting the reader can associate with and achieves a sense of reality. Now, is it possible for the United States of America following in the steps of decline as seen by other great Nations? One can ask how it could possibly happen here as well. Could a case be made even in our own history that the steps toward grandeur or decline are never far apart in reality?

Pessimists express the fear we are in the final stages of the ‘American Century’ and we may be close to such a self inflicted end – if it came, it would have to be self inflicted.

Much of our American history is the extended history of western civilizations. Yes, we can imagine ancient grandeurs of the Chinese Dynasties, India, Japan, Central America, Egypt or even some mystical societies in the deepest of Africa, yet our current cultural world was formed in little more than the past two thousand years. The most dramatic ones were roughly the last two hundred years.

Once power shifted from Greece and the Roman Empire, World history was driven by Western Europe and the spread of Christianity. During the dark ages Islam emerged and reached its zenith during the Middle Ages, only to regress back to what many claim its founding ages. Islam must receive credit for much of the Greek and Indian derived knowledge it preserved for posterity, but we must also recognize it failed to build on this knowledge and it destroyed much of what it could not assimilate.

Much bloody conquest was also undertaken in the name of Christianity and shall always be a reminder of where we have been.

For roughly three centuries Europe suffered through untold hardships of Nationality driven wars and collectively committed unspeakable human disasters. Slavery existed through most of the recorded history and was ended in western societies less than two hundred years ago, while in some regions of the world it seems to be an accepted practice still even today.

While in the earlier history of Nation or Tribal formation wars were total and aimed to destroy an adversary and taking survivors into bondage, the inhumanity of ‘man toward man’ reached their lowest points during the past century with the deliberate destruction of untold human beings. The Soviet Union’s revolution and the deliberate mass starvation of the Ukraine and the multi-million killings in Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China stand out. Yet the bottom was reached in cold blooded mass exterminations in Germany of Germans with a different Faith and this happened but years after Germany was perceived to be the most civilized of Nations.

Yet during these three centuries of European strive, Western Europeans pioneers were the first to permanently colonize the North American Continent. In the drive toward establishing permanent settlements, the actions toward natives and the importation of the enslaved followed along the pattern established in the ‘Old World’, but in the time during this strive the concept of equality and freedom arose.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights ushered in a ‘New World’ of Freedom unknown before. The achievement of these ideals was not instantaneously but evolved over time and in the face of often strenuous opposition. During now it’s well over two hundred year existence this great democracy was the beacon to untold millions rushing to its shore to build new lives in freedom and toward prosperity, while at times some also came to destroy this very same concept.

This Nation demonstrated its stability through wars, famine, disasters, internal strife and direct terrorist attacks of unspeakable magnitude, but in its democratic principles never wavered. With no reasonable external thread that would cede the survivability of the adversary, is the vision bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers strong enough to handle internal strives as well to ensure survival of their vision? This Nation was born in Revolution, survived its Civil War, the Great Depression, the 9/11 Terror attack, but could it lose its Freedom in a silent revolution through the overthrow of its elected Government?

The danger is never far away and could come from least expected corners; as we shall read.

When writing a historical novel which reaches into the future, it is important to select a setting the reader can associate with and achieves a sense of reality. Now, is it possible for the United States of America following in the steps of decline as seen by other great Nations? One can ask how it could possibly happen here as well. Could a case be made even in our own history that the steps toward grandeur or decline are never far apart in reality?

Pessimists express the fear we are in the final stages of the ‘American Century’ and we may be close to such a self inflicted end – if it came, it would have to be self inflicted.

Much of our American history is the extended history of western civilizations. Yes, we can imagine ancient grandeurs of the Chinese Dynasties, India, Japan, Central America, Egypt or even some mystical societies in the deepest of Africa, yet our current cultural world was formed in little more than the past two thousand years. The most dramatic ones were roughly the last two hundred years.

Once power shifted from Greece and the Roman Empire, World history was driven by Western Europe and the spread of Christianity. During the dark ages Islam emerged and reached its zenith during the Middle Ages, only to regress back to what many claim its founding ages. Islam must receive credit for much of the Greek and Indian derived knowledge it preserved for posterity, but we must also recognize it failed to build on this knowledge and it destroyed much of what it could not assimilate.

Much bloody conquest was also undertaken in the name of Christianity and shall always be a reminder of where we have been.

For roughly three centuries Europe suffered through untold hardships of Nationality driven wars and collectively committed unspeakable human disasters. Slavery existed through most of the recorded history and was ended in western societies less than two hundred years ago, while in some regions of the world it seems to be an accepted practice still even today.

While in the earlier history of Nation or Tribal formation wars were total and aimed to destroy an adversary and taking survivors into bondage, the inhumanity of ‘man toward man’ reached their lowest points during the past century with the deliberate destruction of untold human beings. The Soviet Union’s revolution and the deliberate mass starvation of the Ukraine and the multi-million killings in Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China stand out. Yet the bottom was reached in cold blooded mass exterminations in Germany of Germans with a different Faith and this happened but years after Germany was perceived to be the most civilized of Nations.

Yet during these three centuries of European strive, Western Europeans pioneers were the first to permanently colonize the North American Continent. In the drive toward establishing permanent settlements, the actions toward natives and the importation of the enslaved followed along the pattern established in the ‘Old World’, but in the time during this strive the concept of equality and freedom arose.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights ushered in a ‘New World’ of Freedom unknown before. The achievement of these ideals was not instantaneously but evolved over time and in the face of often strenuous opposition. During now it’s well over two hundred year existence this great democracy was the beacon to untold millions rushing to its shore to build new lives in freedom and toward prosperity, while at times some also came to destroy this very same concept.

This Nation demonstrated its stability through wars, famine, disasters, internal strife and direct terrorist attacks of unspeakable magnitude, but in its democratic principles never wavered. With no reasonable external thread that would cede the survivability of the adversary, is the vision bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers strong enough to handle internal strives as well to ensure survival of their vision? This Nation was born in Revolution, survived its Civil War, the Great Depression, the 9/11 Terror attack, but could it lose its Freedom in a silent revolution through the overthrow of its elected Government?

The danger is never far away and could come from least expected corners; as we shall read.

When writing a historical novel which reaches into the future, it is important to select a setting the reader can associate with and achieves a sense of reality. Now, is it possible for the United States of America following in the steps of decline as seen by other great Nations? One can ask how it could possibly happen here as well. Could a case be made even in our own history that the steps toward grandeur or decline are never far apart in reality?

Pessimists express the fear we are in the final stages of the ‘American Century’ and we may be close to such a self inflicted end – if it came, it would have to be self inflicted.

Much of our American history is the extended history of western civilizations. Yes, we can imagine ancient grandeurs of the Chinese Dynasties, India, Japan, Central America, Egypt or even some mystical societies in the deepest of Africa, yet our current cultural world was formed in little more than the past two thousand years. The most dramatic ones were roughly the last two hundred years.

Once power shifted from Greece and the Roman Empire, World history was driven by Western Europe and the spread of Christianity. During the dark ages Islam emerged and reached its zenith during the Middle Ages, only to regress back to what many claim its founding ages. Islam must receive credit for much of the Greek and Indian derived knowledge it preserved for posterity, but we must also recognize it failed to build on this knowledge and it destroyed much of what it could not assimilate.

Much bloody conquest was also undertaken in the name of Christianity and shall always be a reminder of where we have been.

For roughly three centuries Europe suffered through untold hardships of Nationality driven wars and collectively committed unspeakable human disasters. Slavery existed through most of the recorded history and was ended in western societies less than two hundred years ago, while in some regions of the world it seems to be an accepted practice still even today.

While in the earlier history of Nation or Tribal formation wars were total and aimed to destroy an adversary and taking survivors into bondage, the inhumanity of ‘man toward man’ reached their lowest points during the past century with the deliberate destruction of untold human beings. The Soviet Union’s revolution and the deliberate mass starvation of the Ukraine and the multi-million killings in Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China stand out. Yet the bottom was reached in cold blooded mass exterminations in Germany of Germans with a different Faith and this happened but years after Germany was perceived to be the most civilized of Nations.

Yet during these three centuries of European strive, Western Europeans pioneers were the first to permanently colonize the North American Continent. In the drive toward establishing permanent settlements, the actions toward natives and the importation of the enslaved followed along the pattern established in the ‘Old World’, but in the time during this strive the concept of equality and freedom arose.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights ushered in a ‘New World’ of Freedom unknown before. The achievement of these ideals was not instantaneously but evolved over time and in the face of often strenuous opposition. During now it’s well over two hundred year existence this great democracy was the beacon to untold millions rushing to its shore to build new lives in freedom and toward prosperity, while at times some also came to destroy this very same concept.

This Nation demonstrated its stability through wars, famine, disasters, internal strife and direct terrorist attacks of unspeakable magnitude, but in its democratic principles never wavered. With no reasonable external thread that would cede the survivability of the adversary, is the vision bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers strong enough to handle internal strives as well to ensure survival of their vision? This Nation was born in Revolution, survived its Civil War, the Great Depression, the 9/11 Terror attack, but could it lose its Freedom in a silent revolution through the overthrow of its elected Government?

The danger is never far away and could come from least expected corners; as we shall read.

President Sean Owen Doyle riding on the highest popularity rating since President Kennedy is plunged into the worst possible crisis ever confronted by him or any of his predecessors. A strange flu like virus appears across the nation attacking the same age group that was victimized in the Pandemic of 1918. This time, it is the weapon of choice by a terrorist organization. The disease spreads worldwide and the race is on to develop a vaccine before millions of people die. As panic reigns in the streets of the homeland, President Doyle is confronted with numerous terrorist attacks while the Center for Disease Control is in a race against time to save as many lives as possible from the Pandemic.

President Sean Owen Doyle riding on the highest popularity rating since President Kennedy is plunged into the worst possible crisis ever confronted by him or any of his predecessors. A strange flu like virus appears across the nation attacking the same age group that was victimized in the Pandemic of 1918. This time, it is the weapon of choice by a terrorist organization. The disease spreads worldwide and the race is on to develop a vaccine before millions of people die. As panic reigns in the streets of the homeland, President Doyle is confronted with numerous terrorist attacks while the Center for Disease Control is in a race against time to save as many lives as possible from the Pandemic.

This book is written primarily to enable its readers to understand how the political leaders of the poor nations which we call third world countries or developing countries provide poor leadership in terms of sinking their countries into perpetual economic disaster.

In speaking of Haiti, the writer outlines herein a proposal of a re­organization plan for this government. The alteration of the existing structure of governmental units with respect to the lines of control between them is necessary in order to promote greater efficiency and responsibility. A host of problems remain unresolved, including capital flight, an outdated tax code, a troubled financial system. The President of Haiti needs to implement reforms. Each Department Agency of his administration needs to reorganize in order to produce efficiency and restore confidence in public administration. No government has yet been credited with bringing economic stability to this impoverished nation which has been on the verge of collapse because of its economic woes such as unemployment, underemployment, hyperinflation, stagflation and depression. The past and current economic problem that Haiti has been faced for the last two centuries triggered a social phenomenon and widespread expressions of socioeconomic discontent. Will change occur in time to prevent serious political turmoil ?

It should be noted that in a poor country where economic disaster's the norm, other concern people of the world should be aware that such a poor nation is unable to feed its people. Health’s hazard is rampant, there is no social security, no medicaid, and the windfall from the wealth of that nation is usually misappropriate. Therefore, I would encourage each reader of this book to take the time to read it thoroughly.

The setting of the novel is the 1880s in the Badlands of Dakota Territory along the Little Missouri River.  There is great excitement in the town of Medora (North Dakota) as young Theodore Roosevelt from New York plunges into the ranching business at the same time that a wealthy Frenchman, the Marquis de Mores, is investing three million dollars into building a slaughterhouse and the new town of Medora (named after his red haired wife). Three young wranglers, Val Steffanson, a Canadian, Lincoln Long, a Scotsman, and Fred, from Wyoming get jobs as riders for the Maltese Cross Outfit, Roosevelt’s ranch. Val, under the name of Will Stevens, is hiding out in the Badlands from three revenge seeking brothers of Blacky Jean La Pierre. Val killed Jean in self defense in a gunfight in Calgary when he confronted Jean about stealing Indian children and selling them into sexual slavery in the wild and lawless far North. The La Pierres are an outlaw Métis clan and want blood for blood. Val’s hideout is eventually discovered and he must fight to the death each one of the three brothers. Val does not share this part of his arduous life with young Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln Long, as he fights the battles alone. Two beautiful sisters of Icelandic heritage come into the men’s lives when Val marries Sonja and brings his bride and Tanya, her sister, to the Badlands. These wonderful women bring zest and also complications to the Maltese Cross Outfit. Outlaws, killers, and horrific Dakota winters also bring adventures and complications to Mr. Roosevelt and his men. Finally, the great blizzard of 1886-7, causing huge losses of cattle, ends Roosevelt’s ranching days, but not before he finds health, vigor, confidence, and love of the “strenuous life.”  Sixteen years later, Theodore Roosevelt became the President of the United States.

Note:(The T. R. Connection is also an audiobook with BooksinMotion.com, and the novel, The Big Island Posse, published by Authorhouse 2004, is a sequel to this book).