http://southwoodgroup.org/the-ragnarok-conspiracy/
From the 2012 debut thriller novel of biomedical scientist
Erec Stebbins –The Ragnarök Conspiracy (www.ragnarokconspiracy.com) the reader
takes to a world like shaken and stirred. This novel is about a Western
terrorist organization attempting to instigate a global war with the Islamic
world, a group of FBI and CIA agents work together to uncover and stop their
plot. The Ragnarök Conspiracy follows two main characters, an “American Bin
Laden” and an FBI agent, who both suffer a terrible loss on 9/11, but clash
over how to respond to terrorist threats from radicalized Muslims.
It’s the story of two men who share a traumatic loss at the
hands of Muslim extremists, and yet take two ultimately divergent paths
afterwards. One man, John Savas, channels his pain to become one of the
nation’s leading, if unorthodox, FBI counter-terrorism officers. The other uses
his considerable wealth and power to become the equivalent of an American Osama
bin Laden, and is the antagonist of the story who plans and sets in motion a
global conflict with the Muslim world. Much like the final Armageddon of Norse
mythology, these two are destined to face off in an ultimate battle over the
soul of civilization and the fate of the world.
Like many Americans and especially many New Yorkers who
directly experienced that unprecedented attack on the place where Stebben
residing at, He was then influenced to write the Ragnarok Conspiracy. In the
months and years following the collapse of the Twin Towers, Stebben had an urge
to retaliate. Primitive, ultimately destructive, because most anger is a
sickness. That sickness led the nation to accept a war in Iraq that was
unrelated to the terrorist attacks.
Within Stebben himself, He raged that Bin Laden roamed free
while they captured Saddam Hussein, as if a proxy for the villain who continued
to mock people. Who was bin Laden, besides a megalomaniacal prince who used his
wealth and privilege to fund his unbalanced sense of justice?
A character began to take shape in Stebbin’s mind of this
American bin Laden. As if to achieve balance, there was a second character who
was born in imagination, John Savas – kind of like matter and antimatter – a
man who had experienced a similar loss in those attacks, but whose soul, even
as it hung over the chasm of madness, turned away from hatred and blind
revenge. Events were spun in which these two characters interacted, fought, and
their conflict played out over the globe.
After several years of this idea refusing to go away,
Stebben decided to write it down, but he still covering fear of America that
still needs to be purged of it. There were too many people who cannot see past
their own fears and hatred of Muslims and Islam.
As Stebbins summarizes the theme of the book, “In the real
world, everything – where we will end up as a nation and the ultimate choices
we will make – is still very much up in the air.”
This is informative.
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