Last night I was sitting in the airport and realized that my Kindle wouldn’t turn on. No problem, I stopped by a kiosk and picked up a action/adventure/thriller to kill some time.
Oh boy.
Ok, there may be some spoilers here, but I only made it about 20% of the way through the book, so they’re probably not huge spoilers. I also left it in the seatback pocket and read the Skymall catalog instead, so I can’t actually quote anything I read. Everything here is a paraphrase.
So here’s the plot as I understood it: The bad guy is a billionaire Hungarian jew who hates America and wants to destroy it and make it more socialist. I’m not sure in which order he plans to do these things, but he’s definitely evil. And a billionaire. And Hungarian. And Jewish. And socialist. But his name isn’t George Soros–that’s a completely different evil billionaire socialist Hungarian Jew who’s trying to destroy America.
Our antagonist’s devious plan for destroying America is:
[ol]
[li]Brainwash schoolkids into believing that America is bad. Seriously, Phase I of his clever plan is to indoctrinate schoolkids. Sample dialogue: “He’s corrupted our school system into teaching children that America is evil.” “My God, can we do anything about this?” “No, it’s too late, there’s no way to reach them now. They’re thoroughly brainwashed”[/li][li]Make America more socialist. Apparently Phase II of his plan to destroy America is unemployment insurance and health care. He’s been doing this for decades, so the current socialist state of our country is the result of decades of this evil mastermind’s planning and plotting.[/li][li]Create a global currency. The culmination of our evil Jewish billionaire’s plot to destroy America is to create a global currency. And the only way to prevent this is for the world to go to a gold standard, I bet. Probably a bad plan for someone who makes money currency trading, unless that’s a different evil billionaire.[/li][/ol]
Our hero is a former CIA agent who quit his job following the election. The old president was willing to do what it took to fight terrorism, but the new president is weak and only wants to talk. Our hero was only able to keep fighting terrorism by going private-sector.
At this point I stopped reading, but I suspect our hero kills the evil Jew, gold standard, President is a traitor, truth gets out, Socialism averted.
I can usually do the suspension of disbelief thing for long enough to get through a book, but it’s hard when the author keeps preaching his political beliefs at you.
