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A tea party blogger joins the Saco River Rock Group, SRRG, a small group of Indian stone artifact lovers, who discuss their finds at an Irish Bar in North Conway, New Hampshire. The blogger's main interest is in the waitress, Marina, a refugee from Ukraine, but he is an enthusiastic if not discerning collector of artifacts. Two undercover FBI agents come to town to check on Springer, because he was in Washington at the time of the insurrection. The agents are unable to get evidence on Springer, or to find out that he is involved in a plot to shoot out the electricity going to a New Hampshire college town. The Ukrainian woman, Marina, has grown to hate her relationship with Springer, who mocks her accent, and otherwise ignores her. Springer has developed a pain in his leg, probably a blood clot, so he is in no mood to congratulate her when she comes home driving a Prius. He suspects that she had stolen money from him to make the purchase. Marina says she wants to break with him, but she must meet him one more time. Springer has spent the night checking all the sums of money he has stashed around the house. He isn't sure there is much missing, but he is furious that she wants to leave him. When she arrives, he is badly hung over and jagged from smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. He knocks her out, and he is tying her up when he is summoned to take part in the terrorist act with his militia pals. Marina wakes up, naked and tied up on the floor of Springer's apartment. There is no sign of him because he is 20 miles away, taking part in a terrorist act of shooting out an electricity transmission station. No one could foresee that he would choose this moment to die. A member of SRRG realizes Marina has not returned to her job at the restaurant, and he goes to look for her. He rescues her and takes her to a women's shelter for medical attention. Duncan was aware that Springer did not trust Wall Street or banks, and he found roughly 1 million dollars hidden in Springer's apartment. This was Duncan, or Drunk Duncan as Springer called him. Duncan was a retired CIA officer, who had been turfed out of the service because he expected the CIA to be 'good guys.' Duncan has built a small house on the farm of Chick Hunter, also an SRRG member. Chick is very focused on stone artifacts and Duncan is determined to figure out the origins of MAGA. Their conversations centered on these topics, ebb and flow. Duncan develops a thesis that the author Ayn Rand was schooled in revolution by the Russians, and they sent her to America to insert herself into our politics and poison us from within. He believed her to be the mother of MAGA. Rand believed democracy and communism were the same thing. Reading an Agatha Christie novel, Duncan realized she had written several books on the topic of democracy takeover, and he works up a comparison between Christie and Rand. A year passes before Marina moves into Dunca's little house. She has quit her waitress job to help Chick work in his vegetable garden. Duncan's work on Rand and Christie comes together as a cohesive theory, which he applies to MAGA and the MAGA faithful. He makes farfetched conclusions, which seem correct to him, and he publishes a book on the internet. They are homesteaders, now. Duncan and Marina marry, and the SRRG are present.