The Go Code Protocol

The briefcase, AKA the football, containing the go codes for the U.S. nuclear arsenal is carried by military aides who always accompany the President and Vice-President.Paul Decker, distant husband, estranged father, alcoholic, has been pulled from active duty to state-side assignment: aide to the vice-president. A position he hopes to ride out till his retirement.In a strike on Washington, a terrorist group known as "Black Bear" gets away with the prize, killing many secret service agents and almost killing Captain Paul Decker: the officer charged with protecting the football.Black Bear breaks the encryption code, and opens a "trap door" into the nation's ICBM network…and is auctioning off targeted missile strikes.Many countries, both friend and foe, along with a dozen terrorist organizations, want what Black Bear has. And it's all for sale!Paul Decker assembles his own team to go after the perpetrators. However, he is Code 6: acting on his own without the backing of the government.The chase begins in Washington, D.C., where Paul finds the lowest man on the rungs of the conspiracy ladder and tortures him until he gets a piece of information taking him deeper into Black Bear. The hunt quickly extends to England, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria and Somalia. But always one step being Black Bear.The American Vice-President wants to use the opportunity to attack Russia and blame it on Black Bear. When the President disagrees, the Vice-President threatens to invoke the 25th amendment, removing the president from power.Israel, North Korea, Chechnya, and Iran are all bidding for the rights to see their enemies annihilated.But as Paul closes in on Black Bear, he finds that everyone, including his hand-chosen people, has their own agenda.Black Bear just needs to keep ahead of its pursues for just a few more hours, when it will reset the launch parameters of the ICBMs and forever change the world order. I am a political activist who has written position papers for the Carter and Clinton White Houses. And I am now working with the Elizabeth Warren Campaign. My work on social issues has received recognition directly from the President of Mexico. I have written 30 novels, mostly international political thrillers. These are fiction based on fact. I am dedicated to exposing the truth, uncovering corruption, waste, and ignorance. Due to my Master's Degree in International Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, I am well qualified to do this work. I am not in it for the money. I am trying to wake people up, touch hearts, change minds, have them see and understand circumstances in the world they may not have been aware of. I want to make a positive difference in the world. Thank you. .Paul Decker: Delta Force, Seal Team 6, CIA, Code 6 operative. Takes orders from a single person: The President of the United States. He takes the assignments no one else will touch. But he is a 21st century solider, just as likely to use his computer skills: hacking, installing viruses, entering key stroke loggers, infiltration and exfiltration of secure sites, assassination.His assignments send him all over world where he usually teams up with a beautiful woman to compete an assignment. He's been shot, stabbed, beat up but never beaten.When Paul completes an assignment, the country is better off. But not Paul. His weakness is alcohol which he falls on when the memories of his failed marriage and estranged children overwhelm him. For having given all to the military, there is little left for his own well-being.I write political, military, crime and scientific thrillers. All my stories come right off the front pages of the major magazines and newspapers.I do not write books that simply entertain. My stories touch hearts and change minds, make readers laugh and cry, inspire people.My stories straddle the line between fiction and non-fiction.