A Story of Conflict and Love: China's Soft-War Against the U.S

American executive Paul Jacobson was dead, slumped over some boxes in a small, dark, silt-filled room 60' below the surface on the WW11 wreck of Japan's Fujikawa Maru. He had a wire wrapped around his regulator and another around his ankle. Six months before, Jacobson's 15 world-renown scientists had issued a Report proving that carbon dioxide emissions do NOT cause world temperatures to rise. The U.S. resumes fossil fuel production and regains energy independence and major fossil fuel exporter. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tried hard to stop the Report but failed. Jacobson had to die. China's President Xi directs CCP's United Front to step-up its 'soft-power' attack to weaken U.S. democracy by bribery, intimidation, disinformation, money laundering, disrupting peaceful demonstrations, anything that works. From Boston's Chinatown, the CCP builds a database of 55,000 recent Chinese migrants. The Politburo develops plan for sabotaging U.S. infrastructure--ports, transportation, water, grid system, social media. The British find a top-secret document detailing China's overall strategy against the U.S. A mysterious U.S. organization (with 'voices'), "the "Committee," emerges to defeat this heightened Chinese Communist aggression. An unlikely hero, former Navy fighter pilot Levi Salinger, takes on the CCP and its United Front operation. After pleading guilty for illegally taking a CCP bribe, U.S. Congressman Marston does a public mea culpa for betraying the trust of the American people before he is jailed. Businessman Martin Altmore doles out $1.2 billion in CCP money to support the CCP soft-power agenda against the U.S. and commits suicide. Throughout the novel is a hard-love affair between CCP assassin Liu Jian and Chen Jing, the Harvard-educated daughter of President Xi and mother of little Hua. But who is she really? Is she CCP or just an innocent bystander trying to make a new life in the U.S., but haunted by who her father is? A central theme is the Chinese struggle between loyalty to a brutal and autocratic regime or a return to thousands of years of traditional Chinese values and customs. China's exiled Falon Gong triad of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance contrasts dramatically with the Communist Party's practice of deception, violence, and repression. Thanks to information from a mole in China's Politburo, a top secret American "Science Lab" is reconstituted in the sub-basement of the FBI building in Washington D.C. and attempts to hack into Beijing's massive data warehouse containing information on the Chinese migrants arriving in the U.S., the identity of CCP agents and sympathizers in the U.S., annotated descriptions of China's high priority technologies, and even the CCP's 'three coordinate plan' for sabotaging U.S. infrastructure. The novel's first chapter is President Xi's own words as to "how much the Chinese people and other countries acknowledge my enlightened leadership, and Lei Feng confirms my good judgement when he visits me in my dreams to help me solve China's challenges." In the final chapter, Xi's happy dreams are replaced by nightmares where he sees his imaginary friend slowly disappearing and being replaced by another man whose name is "Ziyou" meaning 'freedom.' There are about 50 named characters, including many Chinese such as Yang Wen, the ever-present senior CCP agent; Liu Jian, CCP assassin and would-be lover; Chen Jing, President Xi's daughter; Pi Haoyu, CCP agent and murderer; Zeng Jun, illegal migrant; Wang Feng, reluctant CCP agent and Chinatown stockbroker; and President Xi.