What would happen if the Islamic nations of the world met over 20 years ago and agreed to unite their power and resources in the interest of accomplishing one important goal? The incremental and vicious destruction of the United States. What if they spent the next two decades infiltrating the USA, gathering arms, carefully selecting targets and preparing for the day they would unleash their fury upon an apathetic and lazy populous? Invasion America lays out in detail a blueprint of just how a terrifying event like this might unfold.
Hello! My name is Alan Wing and Invasion America is my first novel. For years I have read novels that claimed to be action packed, and yet, as I read, I found myself searching for the excitement I was promised. Far more times than I can count I was left feeling very dissapointed and dissatisfied. So I sat down to write the novel I had been wanting to read for many years. I promise, you the reader, the action in Invasion America begins with chapter one and continues to escalate in intensity right till the very end.
This is not your typical story about an attack upon America that finds a covert ops hero assigned to track down the villains and along the way falls in "lust" with a stunning heroine. Then together, at the last possible moment, they swoop in and save the day just as the "bad guy" prepares to push the button that will end us all. Invasion America resides much closer to reality and how we as a nation might react. It examines what choices we might be forced to take even though they may be politically incorrect. It makes us look deeper into our dark and vengeful inner man and though we may discover we don't like what we find, we have no other choice than to embrace it.
How do you stop an invisible enemy when they have no organized structure which to stage an armed campaign against? When there is no government which can be forced to the negotiation table? What if they struck America in countless locales, then did not allow the US time to recover as they did after the events of Sept. 11th? What could we do as a nation? What might you do?
I wrote this novel in 2004 and early '05, then spent several months in the publication process. I say that to say the following. Several events I wrote into the novel have actually taken place already or have drifted frighteningly close:
1. Oil prices would be driven over $75 a brl after huge and devastating hurricanes tore through the Gulf of Mexico forcing the president to release US oil reserves.
2. Republicans would be voted from office in a landslide election due to the unpopularity of the war in Iraq.
3. The Holland tunnel would be blown up. (US officials recently spoiled a plot to do that very thing!)
4. US troops would be placed on the southern border.
5. Late in 2005 a Jordanian married couple walked into a hotel wedding reception in Oman, Jordan and attempted to blow themselves up. His bomb detonated, hers failed. This is the first record I can find of a married couple carrying out homicide bombings together. What was disconcerting to me was the antagonists in the first half of Invasion America just happen to be a Jordanian married couple lurking here in the United States.
6. In Invasion America, our attackers use surface to air weapons to carry out attacks. Late in 2005, authorities arrested two men in southern California for attempting to smuggle in surface to air missiles to do that very thing.
7. In the novel, terrorists use scuba divers to attack shipping. I recently read an article which revealed the Coast Guard and the Navy have been working feaverishly to invent a sonar to distinguish between dolphins and human beings. Their given reason was the prevention of the aforementioned attacks on shipping.
There are several other instantces in the novel that cause a raised eyebrow here and there as well, which I will not eleborate on here.
Suffice it to say I believe you will enjoy the novel for it's frightening realism.
Invasion America is available at all major online bookstores. However, Barnesandnoble.com has several reviews posted by readers who enjoyed the story.
If you have read this far, then I thank you very much for taking the time to do so. I can only hope you like what you've read so far and will take the next step and purchase Invasion America! You will not be dissappointed. Thank you, Alan Wing.