Introducing Voice in the Wilderness A Political Thriller with Romance

Today I want to introduce my upcoming release, Voice in the Wilderness, a political thriller with a bit of romance. More specifically, I want to share my motivation for writing this story.

As an author I have the privilege of taking charge of an entire world, my book’s story world, shaping and molding it as well as creating the characters who populate it. It’s a bit like playing God. Pretending to be Him can become heady stuff, unless one realizes the heavy responsibility that playing God places upon a writer. It’s a responsibility that I take seriously. But, I also take full advantage of the latitude I’m given when I write.

That’s where we’ll begin today … with latitude and how I used the full width of creative freedom to fashion my story.

If you’re like me, you’ve been alarmed at the course the US has been on for the past seven years. As a veteran, a patriotic American, and the grandson of immigrants who literally kissed the ground when they disembarked on Ellis Island, it creates an ache in my gut, and it breaks my heart, to see the things that made this nation great being stripped away. And they’re being stripped away at an accelerating speed. If this is not stopped now, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will never know the joy of growing up in a nation where good and right really are good and right—where they haven’t been inverted—a nation where people are free to speak and write what’s in their hearts, minds, and imaginations without the enslavement to the federal government caused by political correctness and abandoning our Constitution with its acknowledgment of God-given rights.

We need good people, people of conviction and courage, who will stand face-to-face and toe-to-toe with evil and give their own “Evil Empire Speech,” calling evil what it is to its face.

We especially need young people who will do this, young people who are not willfully ignorant of the great war between right and wrong being waged in our society. We need young people who are not so enamored with technology that they waste hours sending the equivalent of 19th century Morse Code on 21st century devices to virtual friends, discussing pop culture trivia while America burns.

We need young people like the two main characters in Voice in the Wilderness.

We need heroines like beautiful, brilliant, 21-year-old, KC Banning, labeled a domestic terrorist because she can incriminate a president who is plotting tyranny, a president who wants KC dead. But threatened with death, she refuses to abandon the struggle against evil.

And we need young men like Brock Daniels, a 24-year-old writer whose blog exposes the evil in our nation and gives hope to the people by pointing them back to our moral compass, the absolute truths that can only come from a transcendent source, the Author of Truth. Like John the Baptist, the original voice in the wilderness, Brock cries out for Americans to repent, to turn back to what is good. Like Herodias, the president wants Brock’s head.

But, when the situation in America deteriorates further, Brock’s blog grows from a million followers to 10 million, then to 100 million. If only I could rip from the pages of my book this young man, wise beyond his 24 years, and turn him loose in the real world, maybe he could give CPR to our dying nation.
Next week, I’ll share some excerpts from the story and, perhaps, some of the beautiful setting, Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon. In the meantime, if you’d like something to contemplate, there is an incredibly moving song on YouTube, When America Is Not America Anymore, by Scott Wesley Brown, one of my favorite artists. Please watch the video and listen to the words.

After you’ve listened to it, you’ll probably be ready for your Voice in the Wilderness. Rumor has it that he’s out there blogging right now, somewhere in cyberspace—yes, really. But let’s hope no one wants his head, because I’m rather attached to it.