American Renaissance Book 1

Analyzing the most heinous of hidden true historical crimes from the recently declassified papers and diaries of a compromised government informant found to have resurfaced during the infamous FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, American Renaissance; Or Inquiry Concerning Political Justice in the Arts & Influence on Morals and Happiness (Book 1: Missions Dangerous), traces the sudden rise and tragic ambition of the late political and socio-economic revolutionary, Sean Dorian Knight. A brilliant young American artist whose radical theory of art history at the turn of the millennium attracts a violent religious following that threatens to upend, not only the bonds of world peace as well as Wall Street, but forever change our faith in civilization as we know it.

Taken from the confidential government cables and confiscated journals of a young American soldier/spy and aspiring poet stranded in Paris at the time, the 1st person testimony is at once the story of one of the artist's closest and most loving disciples, and an important public record of the narrator's harrowing experience as the sole survivor of a mission of unspeakable evil and secrecy. Beginning sometime after a violent explosion in the City of Light, when having passed several days in a coma, he awakens only to discover that three of his platoon mates are dead. At the same time, he receives his shocking lethal orders from his new commanding officer and is ultimately faced with the cruel choice of having to either kill his best friend or the woman that he loves.

So, we are led through the eyes of an embedded informant on the mind-bending tale and cryptic path of art history, espionage, and government secrets: On the hunt for a mysterious enemy, one whose anonymous identity and prophesied rise - till this day - the government will use any amount of deadly force to keep hidden and destroy.

Part spy novel, part murder mystery, and a critique of the Post-Modern art scene in 1990s Paris, American Renaissance is an action-driven international thriller about the plight of modern-day artists living in the spiritual and political vortex during a paradigm shift of the new millennium. The full story is best experienced in numerical order and comprises:

Book 1: "Missions Dangerous"

Book 2: "An Identity Left on the Rue da la Clignancourt" (anticipated release Spring 2025)

Book 3: "A Theological History of Lost Peoples & Romantics" (anticipated release Summer 2025)

all set in Paris.