"Hail Columbia - The American Holocaust" is one of the most shocking books ever written. It is a hauntingly disturbing novel that depicts the monstrously unthinkable as being so convincingly true to life that it overwhelms the reader as being vividly and terrifyingly real. Set five years in the future, the story concentrates on a prominent, interracial family living in a small city in the United States. Their tranquil, privileged life is suddenly devastated by an abrupt national political cataclysm which closely parallels the horrific Nazi holocaust and Final Solution which occurred in Germany in the 1930's. These brutal events transpire in a heartbreakingly personal and tragic manner against a fascinating and completely believable background, proving that all it takes is a perfect storm of well-synchronized factors to unleash a barbaric extremism that can enslave a nation. "Hail Columbia" finally and firmly puts to rest the belief in the old, time honored American adage, "It could never happen here." As the United States currently moves nearer and nearer to an all-out Civil War between the two polarized factions of the radical Left and Right, with racism and the unforgivable heritage of slavery creating an unbridgeable chasm between the Black and White races, "Hail Columbia" has instantly become the one novel that every American will want to read. It chillingly and precisely illustrates an unimaginable extremism that could develop if the people of the United States continue moving politically farther apart and engaging in an alarmingly escalating cultural warfare. By making society hit rock bottom, this novel will make every reader shudder with dread and hopefully embrace the dire necessity right now for sitting calmly back and seriously considering reaching out their hand to one another, rather than continuing to angrily pull it away and metaphorically savage grip the American flag and ripping it to shreds and destroying everything that it stands for. The author, Michael John Sullivan, is the celebrated and highly praised recipient of several awards and reviews for his bestselling books. Selwa Roosevelt, the former Chief of Protocol at the White House, reviewed his book for the Washington Post and acclaimed it as a fascinating and wonderfully told story that gripped the reader from beginning to end. Other rave reviews have appeared in the New York Times and most of the other major American newspapers, magazines and literary journals. Beginning his career as a reporter, Sullivan wrote feature stories for national magazines and progressed to creating two superbly researched non-fiction works, the highly popular "Affairs of State" and the superb biography "A Fatal Passion" which established him as a top-level Random House author. His other highly regarded novels are, "Game of Angels", "The All-American Boy", "The Murder Score", and "Near the Water's Edge" which Sullivan adapted into a three act stage play. He has also written the romantic comedy screenplay, "Mind Over Matrimony." Forthcoming novels are his tragic western, "Stealing Horses", and his suspenseful historic thriller, "The Lost Moment." A truly Renaissance Man, Mr. Sullivan is literally intensely interested in 'everything under the sun'. His greatest hope is that his novel "Hail Columbia" will have a great influence in ultimately bringing a reconciliation between the races in America and offering a solution to the seemingly impossible age-old race problem in the United States. With almost every special interest group in the nation hostile to the publication of his novel, it was most gratifying for the author to finally see it in print and available to the reading public.