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The Attunist grew accustomed to making a difference, even though it earned him the label “serial killer.” If he just gives all that up, can he have a normal life? Is that possible? Can’t he just savor a cup of coffee in the mornings? Since he first found out that he can take out drug dealers and entire terrorist organizations with little chance of accountability, The Attunist has done his best to make the world a safer place. This daunting task was made easier by the love of his life, FBI Agent Carla Bright, but when her colleagues caught on, the manhunt drove him to Mexico. Being wanted by federal, state and international law enforcement agencies made life problematic. Being hunted by furious, unknown criminals obsessed with exacting revenge upon him and everyone he knows makes his situation even more difficult. Hiding in remote places has advantages but when nature also turns on him, the real challenge is simply surviving the next few moments. The Attunist continues from the cliffhanger ending of The Attuned, and completes the Attune Trilogy. But why? Does he not survive his own decisions? After having his entire life derailed, and his family’s hundred-year-old cabin in the Rockies confiscated by the FBI, will he also lose friends and loved ones?

The Attuned continues from the abrupt ending of The Attunement, and chronicles the following months of excursions and investigations. Flights, fights and delights tumble across the Middle East, Europe and Canada in an extended effort to get home–without a passport or any other form of identification. Abandoned in the region where the former Soviet Union had seeped into the Middle East, the future is uncertain, but there are mobs to flee and friends to make. Are locals friendly, or hostile? Historic sites and casinos are distracting and law enforcement officers must be avoided. Finding transportation is challenging but rivers might offer an escape, or deliver death. Forests seem to go on forever and local wildlife might be lethal. And home? After so many months, are the ones left behind still the same people they were?

The Attunement is many things, including disguised history from the war on drugs and terrorism in the '80s and early '90s, a mini sequel to The Scrapbook Lecture, a long overdue goodbye to a friend, and an elaborate "What if…" Comprehensively, the novel is a detailed metaphor for something that nearly everyone experiences. (See if you can figure out what that is?)

Two main characters represent two parts of the US government: The Pentagon and the justice system. One of the characters realizes he has a unique ability to get things done. This ability represents the black hole in the defense industry's budget that few know about. The main characters, like the different parts of the US government, get in each other's way and undermine the other's efforts, sometimes on purpose, but more likely unwittingly.

Eventually, they learn to get along and even help one another (Homeland Security). Together, they inflict enough damage to significantly impede the heavy flow of illegal drugs into America and soon begin working on a plan to refocus their efforts to take out entire terrorist organizations.

JFK FYI The assassination of president John F. Kennedy is the most controversial, unsolved criminal case in history. JFK FYI compiles a long-overdue list of suspects while explaining why so many people despised Kennedy. Misconceptions are cleared up and the “lone nut” vs. conspiracy debate is irrefutably put to rest.


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