This is my fourth book and major opus. It takes place 12 years after the events of American Refugee. It is largely about the unlikely romance between an American rebel leader posing as a paramedic and a Russian spy posing courtesan, on the eve of a major revolution and civil war inside the United States.
Taking place over ten years with a wide range of characters spread over 4 acts and 3 continents; this is also the story of a plot to steal the secrets of the Jews; or more specifically their ability to hold together social services and community without reliance on a state for nearly 2, years. On the eve of a doomed uprising in the heart of the American Empire, a newly immigrated Russian dancehall courtesan and a half-Hebrew paramedic share a tantalizing moment.
Their forbidden passion occurs amid a full blown slave revolt in the United States of America orchestrated by clandestine forces. In a danger filled four acts, this novel traces the seven year revolution centered in Brooklyn and the hope or carnage caused of their affair. In the newly liberated Brooklyn Soviet, there is great trouble brewing.
Drones patrol the skies along the border and a new mile-high-wall has been built to prevent the traffic of people and contraband over the East River or Strong Island Sound into the United American States. This is the story of how the Great Revolt began and of the defiance of newly freed slaves in the face of an empire. At the time I gazed off into the night. One does not even fully comprehend the depth of incorrigible things a truly Russian woman knows how to say to an American man in eight different tenses of a lover spurned.
She now says I am a terrorist! Or at best a baltering zealot. A frank and unrepentant potential killer of other men. But you cannot always trust women. They often lie to protect the things they cherish. Their children. Also the future. No ideological calling or message from the unseen put me on this path. The terror we have unleashed was born of misdeeds perpetrated against me and mine as well as against you and yours.
