Böcker av Robert R Hamlyn

It has been said that, as human beings, we are hardwired to believe that objects speak to us. Lucas Steiner, Luke to his friends, is a PhD candidate at one of the larger universities. On his last term extension and running out of time to complete his dissertation, Luke comes to believe that a five-hundred-year-old unknown, and undocumented drawing is talking to him. He is surprised that no one else can hear it. He believes that this drawing is the work of Pieter Brueghel, The Elder.In his effort to prove the existence, establish the provenance, and make known to the world Brueghel's lost drawing, Luke will experience loss, separation, and conflict. Amid the morass of structured bureaucratic lethargy and the extreme animosity of a department superior, Luke will confront the persistent presence of a pernicious evil stemming back to 16th Century Belgium and the blood-stained legacy of the Duke of Alba-the Iron Duke.

An agency of the Federal government raids a beach house in Puget Sound on the pretext of a firearms violation. An unforeseen cataclysm results in the loss or unaccountable absence of a number of the government's operators. This, in turn, primes the Attorney general with appropriate zeal and intent to push through the mechanism repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.In due course, two thirds of the states call for Congress to repeal the Second Amendment. The Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House make a joint announcement to the Washington Press Corps that the recommendation to convoke a Constitutional Convention has been sent to the President.A select few are privy to the fact that the latest push to outlaw the Second Amendment would not be about gun control but something far more sinister. It would take better men like former Diplomatic Security agent, Peter Cleague, Lawyer John Luther, and Senator Al Sherman to not only protect what the Founding Fathers knew was crucial to good government, but to take on a fight for the very survival of the nation.Is it only a matter of time?