The Mohammed Syndrome

About the Book

An Arab owned ship is picked up on satellite rendezvousing with several smaller ships just off the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Yachts, fishing boats, trucks and airplanes converge on the United States coasts, each carrying agents of a 3rd World Alliance.

President Ron Ruiz contemplates the strangeness of recent events. Third World Countries, ordinarily reluctant to give up certain economic rights are now capitulating these rights mysteriously. Slowly it begins to dawn on American police and government agencies that something is indeed wrong. Fires are spreading unchecked all over the West. Industrial plants and major institutions are suffering perplexing incidents; explosions; fires. Major population centers are suffering mysterious outbreaks of bacterial poisoning. All over the world, American military bases and embassies are being attacked.

A medical doctor in Los Angeles, attempting to discover the cause of a bacterial epidemic, is approached by a young news reporter. Together, they track down the mysterious strain just as an FBI agent and his men break into their lab.

Convincing him of the epidemic’s severity, the men are informed of the FBI’s confirming suspicion. They strike out to inform the president, but he has already called a high-level meeting. His generals are blaming everything on the Communists, and call for an all-out nuclear counter-strike. The president is reluctant, and then their greatest fear is realized; a nuclear bomb has been reported possibly on its way to Washington D.C.

The FBI, along with the doctor and news reporter are brought in to lead the search.

It is a race for time as the men frantically search for “The Camel” and his well concealed thermonuclear devices.

About the Author

R.J. Cantwell, PhD. Retired adjunct professor of Geology, Biology, Geography, and Anthropology, resides in Dunlap, California.