Undercurrent

By Kirk David Howard

Rick Claymore is promoted to Vice President and General Manager of a new hotel adjacent to a theme park in Orlando. With his wife Georgia and teenage daughter, Grace, they set out for the theme park capital of America. After building a dedicated team of hospitality executives and line staff the hotel opens with great fanfare. His hospitality career started long ago as a bartender in a New Orleans hotel after he left the Army. Rick showed great potential and was promoted quickly to a management position. Over time he and other members of the hotel staff discovered a criminal enterprise of drugs and prostitution operating within the business and exposed it. After the perpetrators were convicted and sent to jail Rick gradually rose in the ranks of the company, assuming the role of General Manager and moving to Austin and eventually to Chicago. One of the leaders of the criminal enterprise from New Orleans got an early release from jail after fifteen years and is looking for payback. He formulates a plan to find Rick and make him pay for destroying his life. Ewell Underwood is a man from Montana filled with hate. He was left alone after his father came out of the closet, took up with man and moved to Portland. Soon after, his mother committed suicide, and his uncle took him in. He was soon introduced to the macho world of the Montana militia where white supremacy rules and his indoctrination solidified. Trouble put him at odds with the law and he was nudged into the Army where he learned about explosives and high-powered weapons. But his Army experience sputtered due to his problem with authority, and he was discharged. His uncle died and the bank foreclosed on the property leaving him with no place to live and no means of support. With few prospects in Montana, he moves to Zolfo Springs, Florida and connects with other like-minded individuals from Georgia and Alabama who are also filled with hate. Ewell and his cronies hatch a plan and attack Jewish synagogues in three southern cities putting them in the sites of a federal task force. Looking for even bigger targets with more widespread publicity, the newly formed southern militia decides to attack a theme park during a "Diversity Days" celebration over the 4th of July holiday. The main thrust of the attack will be staged from the hotel adjacent to the theme park where Rick Claymore is the General Manager.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CXX7H8CH
• ISBN13: 9798883455048
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"