You've been targeted. You just don't know it yet.
I stared at the phrase “United we stand, divided we fall” for a long time last year. I realize, like a lot of you, that America is being torn apart across a blue-red line. Fractured.
I decided to write a book about it and dove into some deep research for authenticity on how we are being manipulated by social media on a psychological scale. My background includes 13 years in morning radio and 12 years spent as a social media manager for a major radio conglomerate. I also spent years studying the history of propaganda.
This just happened Saturday, April 18th, at the Correspondents' Dinner when a radicalized gunman breached a security checkpoint. This made me stop and think that what happens in my novel is already starting in reality. That is what makes this book scary and plausible. It is based on 5th Generation Warfare, and it could be happening to your neighbor. Maybe even you.
The story takes place in 2028, right in the middle of a designed collapse. 5th Generation Warfare turns your phone into a psychological manipulator where deepfakes trigger pure bowels of disgust before your logic even boots up. This is not a gloom and doom story, but you will see close hand how these operations are created and implemented.
The plot revolves around four characters dropped into this fracturing. Elena is holding a rules of force card while protecting Americans from each other at a Scranton polling site. Tom is a Missouri pastor turned medic managing survival logistics while the Midwest turns into a refugee corridor overnight thanks to the fall of the Ogallala Aquifer. Victoria sits at the top, understanding you do not need a single soldier on the ground if you completely own the information infrastructure. She is the former government contractor who helped develop the system and now plans to turn that power against the country that silenced her lover.
I also ended up pouring a massive chunk of my own history right into the computer specialist character, Alex. Truth time: back in 1997, I hacked a rival radio station's IP address and crashed their servers offline just to see if I could pull it off. I did. Oops. I wrote Alex as the version of me that just kept his hand on the throttle. Join me in this fictional world based on the reality of what could be the fracturing of us now.
