Cronatos Hybamper: An Extraordinary Incident

Is Cronatos Hybamper espionage drama or high political satire? Take your pick. It's both.Either way you look at it, this novel will grab you by the...whatever...and smoothly propel you through a plot that would have seemed impossible--before that extraordinary election in November 2016. The fake facts and human folly seem incredible. Yet every one of them is derived from real facts--real events, real spy technology, real espionage lore, real corporate rapacity, and real political duplicity, all unearthed by the author in his exhaustive background research.It all starts with First Lieutenant Bud Kinard--the very point, the forward molecule, of the nation's defense system. As "Extraordinary Incident Alert Officer" on duty at a National Reconnaissance Office facility in Humper's Creek, Alabama, Bud was supposed to know what to do. But the best he could come up on this day with was to flick tiny little beads of cold sweat off of his ashen face. The four satellites of the Cronatos Hybamper system had dumped three inexplicable, simultaneous, and downright scary observations into his lap. Microbursts from invisible sources in Alaska, Siberia, and the Negev. What the hell was going on?The weird problem gets more perplexing and is bumped up to General Raymond (Ray) Sanders, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a man who sounds like an enthusiastic vacuum cleaner salesman on a cable shopping channel. The Pentagon's chief scientist, Dr. Jyonah Fujimaki, is called in from DARPA to figure things out. He goes wildly off-script and declares the observations to be the fourth and final appearance of God Almighty. Then he "self-raptures." (He'll be back.)The buck stumbles from the Pentagon to President Roger Wilson Lane--the least qualified man in history to hold the office. (Lane was hurtled into high office by a tragic twist of fate. Hours before Inauguration Day, a terrorist bomb murdered President-elect Delmonico Prince Fuller, an Oklahoma beef and business baron turned phenomenally successful politician.)The Great Game becomes a cage fight from there. Everyone who's anyone in the universe tries to get a piece of the action. Russia's President Alexander Arkadyavitch Gribov. Television evangelical Pastor Garland Blanton, leader of the Omaha-based Fortress of the Holy Word Ministries and the "prosperity gospel" movement. Gus Scoggins, high tech business entrepreneur and President Lane's Secretary of Defense. Brash young National Security Adviser, Dr. Quince ("Quin") Rivera.And, among others, the CIA's best ever spy in Moscow, a disgraced State Department code clerk.If you hate establishment politics, you'll love Cronatos Hybamper. If you love politics, you'll hate to put it down. If you like international intrigue, just relax and enjoy the butter smooth writing.And, if you know anything real about espionage and real intelligence, you'll ask yourself, how the hell did this guy find out about that!