The time is close to the present in our own world. Populist U.S. President and land developer Ronald Richland (known as Ron Rich) yearns to be a dictator. Narcissistic and corrupt, the catch phrase that wins him election is “America Up, Government Down, Jesus In, and Illegals Out.”
Demonstrations rise around the country; Rich waits for an excuse to order martial law. He is easily manipulated in an extraordinary plot by a contingent of moneyed Nazis sequestered in a bunker, “established at the direction of Heinrich Himmler at the end of World War II,” located in Nueva Germania “in a remote part of rural Paraguay.”
It's about to happen: An audacious plot to strike violently at the heart of America and to mount a “false flag” operation to convince Americans that a resurgent leftist Antifa is to blame. With Ron Rich’s complicity, the Fourth Reich would be established.
Enter Chris Cadwalader, a Duke University history professor, and his fourth wife, Stephanie Lee, a novelist with a doctorate in Religion (though not very religious herself). During research in Israel, the two learn of the bunker’s existence. A man named Wolfgang Becker has declared himself the new Führer; his acolyte, someone calling himself Herr Adolph. An unsavory bunch with vast wealth enabling them to buy just about any weapon, or person.
Chris, Stephanie and a small group of friends recognize that the bunker must be infiltrated. So Chris and an associate, the gorgeous and gay Gabriella Stern, are chosen as faux husband and wife (with Stephanie’s consent) and supplied with comprehensive backstories.
As the frightful Nazi plan unreels, Jauron’s description of the machinations are chillingly real, a deadly combination of sex, religion, politics, money. An author’s note warns readers “how current technology can be used to manipulate public opinion”--and politicos. “Character matters,” he writes. Near the end, the unimaginable seems inevitable. Can America survive “modern technologies and self-serving politicians”?
