Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences is a military and political action novel of one possible path resulting from current American military and political policy. It follows the election and first several months in the administration of William Douglas Johannsen, a New England Republican elected as a pragmatic centrist in 2016. Following the fall of the American supported government in Iraq, an Islamic nation spanning the Middle East rises from the ashes. The new President is challenged with a...
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Unintended Consequences is a military and political action novel of one possible path resulting from current American military and political policy. It follows the election and first several months in the administration of William Douglas Johannsen, a New England Republican elected as a pragmatic centrist in 2016. Following the fall of the American supported government in Iraq, an Islamic nation spanning the Middle East rises from the ashes. The new President is challenged with a terrorist attack at the construction site of Freedom Tower in New York in his first few hours in office. That attack is designed as the trigger for another, more deadly attack on American elementary schools in the near future.The new Islamic nation puts into action a plan to seize hostage one elementary school in every state of the Union, simultaneously attack former American Presidents, and to cripple the ability of America to respond to attacks in the future. To free the school children, the terrorists propose a treaty designed to turn America into a vassal state. While the President agrees to the treaty to free the children being held hostage, and stop the terrorism, Congress then acts to impeach him. At the same time, his Administration secretly plans a daring attack on the terrorist nation, forms alliances with former enemies, and plots the seizure of the new enemy's oil fields. In a nation under siege by Islamic fundamentalists, a former Iraqi doctor, trained in America, and still in contact with her former lover, who is now a senior CIA officer, is running a secret American operation to provide women with modern medical care. This operation not only helps the women, who have become the lowest of the low in the new Islamic nation, but also gathers information on their husbands, their addresses, phone numbers and other information as to the whereabouts of the male leadership of the Islamic nation, so they can be seized in a daring nighttime strike. Full of aerial and undersea combat action, and political intrigue, the novel reads like a continuation of today's headlines. As the American President and his advisers, along with our new Russian allies, prepare for the military seizure of the Persian Gulf oil fields, and on the eve of a sham treaty vote in the Senate, millions of men and tens of thousands of suicide bombers are discovered on borders of Israel, ready to attack and drive the Israelis into the Mediterranean Sea. American and Russian leaders look on with horror as the Islamic armies are ready to invade, fueled and armed nuclear missiles are discovered in the former Iran; there is seemingly no choice but to go to war, with lives of tens of millions across the Middle East hanging on the decisions made on both sides, as helicopters and invasions launch, and submarines come to missile firing depth. The American President is torn between action and inaction as no President has been since Truman. A woman doctor, distrustful of American intentions, and who loves her country, takes action to save tens of millions of fellow Muslim women, while rediscovering her feelings for a man she left long ago. Nations are forced to trust other nations which they have no reason to trust, in order to survive. Unintended Consequences is a novel about politics, human relationships and how the best laid plans sometimes lead to unintended consequences for one's self and for one's country.