Wednesday Night Blog #2

Wednesday Night Blog #2

August 6, 2014

By

Tom DiCaprio

 

Everyone, since the first blog worked out well; I thought that I would do this again tonight.  Deception has been published as of yesterday.  Deception is about a Saudi plot to take over the United States and Western Europe and convert them into Islamic nations.  Mohammad abd Ibrahim grew up resenting the Western nations splitting up the Ottoman Empire while making false promises to the Arabs.  Ibrahim was further incensed over the setting up of a Jewish State in Palestine.  After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in which it became in Shi’a Islamic State, Saudi Arabia was now feeling threatened over the possibility of the fact that the Islamic Revolution will spread there as well.  Mohammad abd Ibrahim then began a chain of events that would lead to disenfranchised citizens of five different nations who would be on the brink of becoming their leaders while the reestablishing of a Caliphate in Saudi Arabia would occur.  Ibrahim would pay for the college educations of the disenfranchised citizens while choosing five of the students whose college educations that he paid for and groom them to become leaders in the process.   A condition for accepting the scholarship was that the person who accepted must convert to Islam.

One candidate is Darryl Jeremiah Gant who was repeatedly denied a scholarship to pay for his college education.  Gant who resented the Caucasian race for their racism towards minorities was befriended by Ibrahim who paid for his scholarship and is now being groomed to someday become President of the United States.  Gant meanwhile continued on with his resentment of the Caucasian race which results in a series of violent encounters through the years. 

CIA Agent J.T. Vincent proceeds to discover bits and pieces of Ibrahim’s plot in the weeks leading up to the 9/11 attacks while investigating another crime involving a bodyguard for now-Congressman Gant.  When Gant and his bodyguard Quinn Sanders are questioned, the Attorney General’s office proceeds to stop it and Agent Vincent is transferred to Washington, D.C. where his superiors would keep a close eye on him. 

Years later, Congressman Gant becomes the Vice President while Agent Vincent continued on with his investigation of Gant and his ties to radical Islam.  Mohammad abd Ibrahim gives the approval for the final stages of his plan to be carried out.  Can Agent Vincent stop it in time?  Read Deception to find out.  Deception is told in the tradition of both The Manchurian Candidate and The Da Vinci Code.  You can purchase it at www.trafford.com. 

 

Week two of my novel writing hiatus is going well.  I am actually learning that there is more to life these days than writing novels.  For example last night I went out on a group run, but I tweaked my knee to the extent where I had to end my run.  The knee is feeling better today but still a tad sore.  I may try again this weekend should it improve even more.  I saw Edge of Tomorrow Monday night and the movie played out like a video game that would be very addicting.  I highly recommend it, just put your preconceived notions about Tom Cruise aside before you enter the theater.  This was one of his better performances as an actor.

Insomnia has become a key part of my life once again.  It came back Saturday night and is now an every other night thing.  We shall see tonight if the trend continues or not. 

The MLB Trade Deadline may have ushered in a new trend.  It looks like the trade deadline has went from trading fading star players to trading free agents to be while a team can get something in return for them to now trading players for established MLB players in the hopes of jump starting their team in the near future.  You can thank the Boston Red Sox for this new tradition.  I personally think that it’s a good idea since most of the players that Boston received are solid MLB players.  The Red Sox will likely make a splash in the free agent market this winter and it looks like they will be a 2015 playoff team.  One of the players who Boston traded Jon Lester has bolstered a solid Oakland rotation and they will likely face Detroit in the American League Championship Series.  The Detroit Tigers counted and were the UNLIKELY winners of the David Price sweepstakes.  It looks like the Price was right for the Tigers to make the trade. 

Well this is going to be a short blog this week.  Everyone have an awesome week and remember to purchase your copy of Deception.

 

Tom