In the aftermath of the horrific 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, surviving family members of the innocent victims come together in hundreds of grief counseling sessions to deal with their losses and depression. One small counseling group becomes so mired in their anger and frustration with their own government’s inability to find Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists, they decide to go after them on their own seeking revenge for 9-11. Drawing on their individual strengths and diverse backgrounds, these survivors come up with a surprisingly simple plan to draw the reviled terrorists from their lair. This personal journey of retribution takes these clandestine amateurs from New York’s Times Square to Europe, from Russia to the Middle East, navigating oceans, traversing borders, and climbing mountains, all the while evading Russian and U.S. pursuers, for a fateful face-to-face meeting with the World’s most sought after terrorists.
As you read the book, you can follow the characters journey by clicking on the ‘Follow the Journey’ header. Scan down a bit and a World map showing various book points of interest will appear. Click on any of the map points and you’ll be able to zoom in for a satellite view of the actual site described in the book. Places like the Pentagon, the CIA in Langley, VA., the NSA with its huge listening towers, Abottabad, Pakistan where Seal Team Six made their raid to settle accounts with bin Laden and the remote Socotra Island in the Gulf of Aden, the pirates stalking waters off Yemen.
Some map points are in very close proximity to one another so zoom in by clicking around the points of interest in any one area. The Google map function is set on Satellite view and you can zoom into the location detail down to almost ground level. Check out the White House, the backyard pool at the President’s Camp David, or Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, the Suez Canal, or the shipyard waterfront in Catania, Italy. The ‘Journey for Revenge’ characters take this journey and you can follow them each step of the way.
