The First Tenet

Book excerpt: Two Iraqi brothers, Adam and Dove, commence a plan of psychological terror against the world to avenge the slaughter of their mother and of Adam's wife and children. Although Adam believes his brother has the same agenda, he is unaware that the death of his family was actually due to his brother's involvement in a terrorist organization. Seven years of planning, their scheme commences with grand biblical flare at a local New York bar. Adam acts as a messenger from God delivering a dire warning: "The world has seven days to repent its sins and have faith in God, or the world will end!" Adam uses incredible magic to convince the crowd it is truly a divine message, then bestows the 177 patrons of the bar with the task of spreading the message as quickly as possible to stop the end. Their plan is timed to commence with reported major seismic activity, some fabricated by Adam's programming skills, and some forecasted by his seismic knowledge. Adam and Dove have financial backing from a major terror organization as well as from a rare, secret biblical artifact. The funds buy off key political and military figures, all in the hope of sparking a world war through escalating global tensions. Two FBI agents, one a rookie named Lobato and his senior partner Arena, are religious terror experts and quickly calculate Adam and Dove are terrorists. However the uncanny similarities between biblical prophecy and what was happening globally, makes them question reality. The separate lives and actions of three bar patrons are followed as they experience self-awareness and personal transformations. As chaos rolls around the globe, and religious wars heat up, lives are lost and cities burn. A reporter, and single mother, Sam, saves Adam from a brutal mob attack. The two grow close as he opens up and confesses to her. Having a change of heart and experiencing love for the first time since loosing his family, he asks Dove to stop the plan. Dove is furious and sees this as betrayal for the family they mourn. They become adversaries and Dove publically paints Adam as the terrorist while he builds a charismatic persona of a reformed terrorist turned peace advocate. What Adam does not know is that the American missile that he thinks hit their house in error, killing his family, was actually targeting Dove, who was a leader in the terrorist underworld. In an effort to stop the madness, Sam creates a global peace plan that will unite the world for five minutes of universal awareness and consciousness. The movement has more momentum and mass than expected. Dove is identified by SIGNIT (An N.S.A. supercomputer) as a major threat to US security and a hit is ordered to eliminate him. The hit, along with the peace movement is hoped to be enough to stop the world from entering a global conflict and end the grand scheme of terror.