By Means of Peace by Don Johnston
A charismatic politician, Reuben Rogov, wins the presidency. During his first term, he brings peace to the Mideast, stares down Russia and China, solves the border crisis, and conquers the Phoenix-75 virus. Due to his unparalleled success, he is viewed as a sociopolitical messiah, and no opponent dares to run against him.
Once Rogov secures his second term by acclamation, multiple problems arise. Most Americans trust the President, but a few think he created the problems to control the population.
A young Houston couple, Darien and Marisa, are caught up in this melee. Marisa, a budding politician, moves to Washington to work for NatGov, but Darien, a struggling Sci-fi author, stays behind. Chaos disrupts their lives as they attempt to maintain a long-distance relationship.
Darien’s grandfather believes a passage from the Book of Daniel describes the situation: “By means of peace, he shall destroy many.”
Is this stark prophecy about to come true?
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Author Bio:
I was born in the piney woods of East Texas a long time ago and grew up with a sister and a brother.
When I was five years old, I found a tattered science book with several pages missing. The first intact page showed a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. I believe that incident was the “ah-ha moment” that drew me into the world of science.
Upon completing high school, I joined the Air Force and served as a jungle survival instructor in Panama for three years. While there, I wrote a weekly gossip column for the base newspaper and won 2nd prize in a short story contest. Following my military service, I enrolled in Stephen F. Austin State University and got married. After graduating with a degree in biology and chemistry, we moved to Houston where our only child, a son, was born.
During the early years of my career, I wrote numerous technical articles and research papers; however, during that time, I wrote no fiction.
Seventy-five years after the monarch butterfly incident, I retired from the corporate world and began to write as a hobby. Naturally, sci-fi was my genre of choice. My first novel, The Dar Lumbre Chronicles, was published in 2018, and I’ve been writing ever since. The Alamogordo Connection was my second novel, and By Means of Peace is my third. The next one, City on a Microchip, is in progress.