Ken Peters – författare

Once, Africa belonged to the families that resided in Her vast lands. She belonged to the people who grew in the shadow of Kilimanjaro to the fertile plains of the Serengeti. By the late 20th century, Africa's minerals, crops, and oil was being ripped from the soil and sold across the world leeching European industrialists. The tribal culture was no longer a fit for the urban world as a man could no longer measure his wealth by the number of cows he owned but instead, he began to measure his wealth by the number of children he sired. With promiscuity in the emerging cities and industrial human encroachment into the bush, so came the dreaded HIV virus. A company in South Africa develops a vaccine, but when a plot is hatched by a Group of Six Old World European Families to change the vaccine and cripple the continent, Africa is on the brink of another catastrophe. "e;The Cure"e; is a novel of biological espionage. A sinister group of mercenaries attempts to alter a vaccine that will result in the crippling of the African people. Can the Biotechnologist that helped developed the vaccine expose their plot and save the people?

At the end of "the Missiles of October Crisis," the US had demanded that Russia remove all of their missiles that were 90 miles offshore from the United States. However, Fidel Castro had secretly removed six nuclear warheads before the entire thirty-two missiles were sent back to Russia. It was always Fidel''s thinking that these warheads might one day be the savior of his nation. While he aligned himself with other communist countries, his inner sense always told him that he and Cuba were geographically an island of political ideology. He always knew Cuba was never more than a pawn for Russia as a threat to the United States during the Cold War. Russia. Fast forward now to 1992, Russia has fallen. Cuba is left in a bankrupt state with its benefactors no longer able to financially support its communist regime. His island country could no longer feed its people or manage its economy with its limited agricultural exports to acquire enough foreign currency to import the Island nation''s food stocks, energy, or durable goods. However ineffective the US Government blockade may have been during Russia''s time, it would now bring Cuba''s economy to a standstill. The US and Western Europe were offering financial aid to former Soviet confederated satellite countries in exchange for denuclearization and free elections turning towards Democracy. Castro had no intent on following the paths of these former Soviet countries and relinquish his regime. Given his financial dilemma, Castro decides his hidden nuclear warheads may just be the leverage he can use with the United States without losing power. His plan was to use his weapons in a ploy to compromise the US. Castro conceives a clandestine plan to move one of his six nuclear warheads and plant it in Miami. His journey begins with shipping a large crate on an old transport ship used since the 1950s going back and forth over the 90 mile stretch between Havana and Miami. A safe ship without suspicion as a nondescript old freighter with whom the US customs agents well knew her captain who was believed to be anti-Castro and usually only assisted ex-pat Cubans seeking to repatriate their property from Havana or help those to escape from Cuba where possible. Upon planting the disguised wooden in a crate in US customs deep storage in Miami, Castros'' intermediaries seek through the Cuban UN Mission in NYC to present the situation through American diplomats. As the information moves up the diplomatic bureaucracy, the US Government refuses to commit to blackmail. However, the offers a plan for advanced Agricultural Biotechnology to Cuba in exchange for the warheads in Havana and the one secreted to the US mainland. The US offers Genetically altered agriculture, such as flavor-saving tomatoes and Strawberries, which take on a 20-day hibernation from the ripening process when pulled from their stem. This not only permitted less bruising in transit but also had a shorter growth cycle, allowing annual crop production to increase fourfold. Such improvements could greatly accelerate agricultural production, translating to increased export revenues to solve Castro''s financial dilemma. The US Government plan is nothing more than a guise to buy time to allow a covert incursion into Cuba to find the remaining five warheads while simultaneously US-trained bomb personnel pursues finding the warhead planted in Miami.

"The Hajj Intercept", two Israeli Mossad agents, Saul and David, were inseparable friends from childhood to entering their national service in the IDF to eventually joining the Israeli Intelligence agency, the Mossad. They''ve hunted terrorists from the Urals to Zimbabwe. Trained against major threats to Israeli national security and beyond to global security. In their newest mission, they are charged with recovering a viral aerosol pathogen that was stolen by Syria from Russia. The original virus, Marberg is more deadly than Ebola. The Russians have converted the Marberg virus to a new variant called the ∆-Variant, even more, deadly than Marberg. There is the specter that Syria will use this against the Israelis since their loss of the Golan Heights. now being. Between Russia and Syria, the stakes are high in retrieving this pathogen for that Israeli scientists can formulate a countermeasure. David''s life changes one day as a Katusha Rocket lands on his home killing his wife and two daughters. After his initial 7-day Jewish tradition of sitting Shiva (Jewish period of mourning), he is called in a few weeks later for his annual physical only to be told he has pancreatic cancer and to get his affairs in order. Having nothing to live for currently, Saul steals the viral pathogen and sets out on a path of revenge to disperse the deadly aerosol pathogen during the coming Hajj in Mecca. Saul and David, lifelong friends have now changed as one plots revenge for those who took his family, while the other becomes the hunter of his best friend to save the world from a nuclear catastrophe that will send the East and West into mutually assured destruction.