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A devastating nuclear explosion is detected in Pakistan by a special working group of allied intelligence agencies. The Allies believe that a rogue group of violent Jihadists is responsible. The Jihadists are convinced that the United States did the dirty deed and is liable for the deadly blast that will contaminate a large part of their country for centuries to come. Hoya: The Watchmen Waketh is a novel about the 47th President of the United States and the struggle to provide security to Americans both physically and financially in the face of a serious breach of trust at the hands of an unknown vigilante group. Jihadist terrorists have been irrevocably invited to retaliate against the United States and her allies following that mysterious nuclear detonation in the Middle East. Who did pull the trigger on a weapon of war John F. Kennedy once foreshadowed as the "nuclear sword of Damocles?" The political world of 2028 is a platter of prickly political potential. An uphill campaign by an Independent for President. The traditions that make a race for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue possible. The focus on what it means that The Watchmen Waketh. A train racing toward Washington, D.C., with a smuggled nuclear weapon onboard, undetected perhaps? Crippling counter strikes at U.S landmarks. The rise of the New Mesopotamian Empire. Political trench warfare waged in American communities across the nation. Zack Greyson's intense endeavor to answer the Damocles question is peppered with sophisticated Washington nuances and extraordinary political lessons. His trials make for an engaging global political thriller in an era of unnerving partisan theater and exacting extremes. Hoya is at its heart a real-world primer into American governance at its best, and its worst. It is replete with American foreign and defense policy initiatives and innovative program concepts that might resolve a few of today's more puzzling problems. This account is an engagingly detailed political tale rooted in