Assault on America
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A half an hour before the clock-radio’s alarm was scheduled to sound, the phone beside it on the bedside table began to ring. It’s shrill announcement was quite effective in dragging Khaled from his peaceful sleep. Fumbling with the handset, he placed it to his ear. “‘Ello, ‘ello,” he said with a sleepy British accent. “Is Ginny there?” an unknown voice inquired. “I need to speak with her now.” After a second’s pause the man still lying in his warm bed answered. “Sorry, mate, nobody ‘ere by that name. You’ve got the wrong number.” After a longer pause the voice responded, “Oh … sorry.” Then Khaled heard a click and the dial tone. He held the humming handset for a moment, looking at it curiously before placing it back into the phone’s cradle. Then he simply lay back onto his pillow, but not to sleep. He was now wide awake. His was mind fully engaged. He’d finally received the message that he’d been awaiting for months. That cryptic message was short, sweet, and full of meaning. “Ginny … now.” Ginny. Cute play on words, Khaled thought in an apparent nonsequitor, appreciating the irony, for the cause had made sure that he was quite well educated. Ginny. Genesis. Beginnings. And beginning when? Now! Still Khaled decided to allow himself the pleasure of his warm bed for a few more minutes, for “now” actually meant the start of the next preplanned cycle of opportunity. Then his clock-radio decided that was not to be and began screaming at him to get up and get moving. It was a work day. Khaled slapped the alarm off and sat up. He looked over at the calendar on the wall above his desk. The next preplanned cycle of opportunity – the next new moon – was seven days away. Operations would start in six days. Infiltration two days before that. That gave him and his team members three days to leisurely pack, disappear, and then reappear under assumed names long ago planned for to catch flights to Amerika. Then, after a day to rest a little and shake out the jet lag – Strike! Satisfied with that thought and finally able to do something that would have a real effect on Amerika and the West, Khaled sat up, swung himself out of the bed, and rose for the day. He hurried for he suddenly found that he had a little extra work to do. He smiled at the thought and stood up.
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Al-Qaeda and its allies scored two magnificent victories. The first when they took down the WTC towers in New York and the second when they suckered the US into a war in Iraq. Unfortunately for them, the US went from dismay and shock to shock and awe, beating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and then Sadam Hussein into the ground in record time. Now the survivors need a way to seize victory from the jaws of defeat … and an evil mastermind in Iran is sure he has found the way to do so. Suddenly one morning as America wakes, it finds rural hamlets and small towns have been ravaged during the night and hundreds murdered in their own homes. All by terrorists who have disappeared into the shadows before sunrise. Is there any hope to stop this assault? Of course there is, for there is always FBI special agent Philip Calvert, who is easily bored and quite unable to handle the most routine assignments. When it comes to high-pressure crises where everything is on the line, however, he is unique. And now he and an ad hoc team of agents, cops, and Marine sharpshooters he puts together are on the job.
About the Author
Michael Pendergast is a retired B-52 aircraft commander and acquisition engineer, as well as a former instructor of philosophy at a well-known Mid-western Christian university where he taught logic, introductory philosophy, and ethics. A philosopher and theologian, Major Pendergast holds degrees in engineering physics (including a minor in astrophysics), administration, international affairs, and philosophy. Widowed with three grown children, and now remarried, this graduate of Cornell University, Siena College, and the USAF Air War University lives and works in northern Maine, where he devotes much of his time to research and writing. The method to his research and writing is to establish a gestalt to understand the whole rather than merely parts (as an example, that science, philosophy, and theology are ultimately one), with the goal of finding the real meaning of life. His prior works include academic texts in philosophy (The Philosophy of the Human Soul and The Philosophy of Love) and theology (Lord of the Impossible) as well as science fiction and fantasy (The Beginning of the Beginning).