Your Upbringing Can Be Your Downfall

John Ross, a Cherokee who thinks he’s Moses, escapes from his mental hospital in North Carolina to track down and kill Pharaoh to set his people free.But who are his people? Cherokee, who were robbed of their lands by the federal government in the 1800s?  Hebrews, who were enslaved in ancient Egypt? Jews, who were murdered by Nazis in the 1940s?  Downtrodden people everywhere in modern America?And who is Pharaoh? His own father, who made his childhood a living he? His psychiatrist, who tried to discover the secrets hidden under his calm exterior? A former Nazi, subject of a deportation hearing for war crimes against union leaders in his own country? A television newsman, who first gained John’s trust in an interview but lost it when he reported on the former Nazi’s hearing? Just anyone who gets in his way? With two psychopathic brothers as his accomplices, John creates devastation across the Smoky Mountains in his quest to find redemption in his troubled mind for the sins of his family, and all Families that plant seeds of turmoil in their children.

Lying….

Spying….

Dying….

Political intrigue, fueled by arrogance and lust for power, propel a Civil War nightmare in which the Lincolns are captive in the White House basement while Secretary of War Stanton pulls the strings of hapless doppelgangers upstairs and destroy the innocence of the Army private ordered to stand guard.  Historical factual reality is twisted into an emotional and dramatic allegory drawn from today’s international headlines.  No one person can control the course of war and anyone who tries condemns those sucked into his scheme to a desperate tragic end.  No reader will finish this novel without forever wondering who actually makes the decisions coming from the white house, the person we call the president or some shadowy figure lurking in the background.