Going Home

The novel is a political thriller set in the present as the protagonist reluctantly runs for high public office, while he experiences frequent, vivid memories of fighting on the Greeks’ side during their famous war against Troy in the Bronze Age.  By novel’s end, the stories—and the reasons for them—meld.

Do recollections from a past life animate a person in the present?  If they do, what does that mean about our lives?  About us?  This novel is a political thriller set in the present—as the central character remembers fighting in the Greek war against Troy during the Bronze Age.

Post the Obama interregnum, Dan Hacek, retired small-business owner and well married to a physician, forms a boutique political party in Reno, Nevada.  It’s called the Conservative-Reform Party, and Dan is persuaded to stand as the party’s candidate for President of the United States.  He gets traction because of his passion for the party’s platform that propounds arresting climate change while braking runaway U. S. government spending.

Collaterally Dan is beset by increasingly frequent and vivid memories—they can’t be dreams—of commanding Agamemnon’s chariot corps in the Mycenaean Greek expedition against the citadel of Troy.  As recalled by Dan, skirmishes are lethal, nights breed extinction.  The Cause is hopeless.  Finally Amphilochus—Dan—counsels his king to use guile and gold to slip Greek horsemen inside the walls of Ilios.  At this they succeed famously.

The stories--which mirror each other, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes subliminally—come together by the end of the novel.

At base the novel is about fulfilling human existence—why and how.  Why take on the U. S. political establishment?  Why take on the mighty Hittite empire at Troy?  Beyond having to breathe, why do anything?  Going Home shows how we find answers.

Remembering a past life, inspired by a past life, Trojan War, Bronze Age, Hittite empire 

Political-thriller novel, current U. S. political issues, Conservative-Reform Party, Reno, climate change, arresting climate change, runaway U. S. government spending, braking U. S. government spending, candidate for President of the United States, post Obama

Agamemnon, Mycenaean Greek expedition, chariot corps, Troy, Ilios, Amphilochus, guile and gold, Greek horsemen, lethal skirmishes, hopeless Cause

Stories come together, stories mirror each other, metaphorically, subliminally, about fulfilling human existence, why do anything? how we find answers