As the 'second' black President of the United States Frederick Douglas Templeton is all too aware of the unstable precariousness of his position. His predecessor had been obliged to walk a very thin line, treading ever so lightly on political eggshells in order to prove that he...and other non-whites who might come after him...were suitable choices to participate at the highest levels of the American governing machine. He understood the liabilities associated with being 'the first', but he had determinedly sworn off the aspect of being anyone's puppet. From the moment he had decided to join the race for the presidency he had known that he would go in headlong to change Washington's good-ol'-boy mentality of 'business as usual'. He had served one term in Congress and disappointingly found that what one sees is not necessarily what one gets; filibustering rhetoric and broken promises were all too often the order of the day. After his inauguration, and again after the birth of his child, his confidence and resolve were emboldened by a couple of the most unorthodoxed political triumphs imaginable. Those victories encouraged his determination to do things 'his' way, and he plowed blindly ahead in his quest to make America a better place for it's true citizens; and his child! Being caught up in the detachment of those early successes, he...with the support and benefaction of a long-time friend and one-time business partner, Tranton Blanks...sought to alter the entire governing landscape with a new technological system referred to as the TeBe1200. This system was designed, much to their political detriment, to put governing in the hands of the people; a concept not agreeable to some. In their dedication to revamping the governance of the country they grievously failed to comprehend the power of an underground 'Secret Society' that resisted all change at all costs if it threatened their total control of global matters in any way. For centuries th
About the Author: Moultrie Lawrence Lowery was reared in Chadbourn, North Carolina then served his country in VietNam while in the U.S. Army. He now resides in Cheverly, Maryland in Prince George's County. He is a retired disabled veteran who fulfills much of his free time reading, writing and playing word & number games, i.e. Scrabble, Sudoku, crossword puzzles and KenKen. This is his first novel.