Domestic Enemies

By Kent E. Wyatt

Description:

Little seeds we sow, and someday they will grow. What if the ill weeds our society wades in today were being planted decades earlier? What if someone had a chance to uproot them?

In 1988, an American warship accidentally shoots down an Iranian civilian jetliner. In 2014, whole families are being murdered in middle class neighborhoods in Colorado Springs. Everyone is looking to Lieutenant Darrell Jacobs, one of the only amputees able to return to police work with a mechanical hook, to find the murderer before he kills again.

Bioelectronic genius Callie Williams has followed Darrell’s inspirational story and decided he is a gift from God to test her high-tech prosthetic arm. But Darrell, with scars both inside and out, is not the Godly man she believes or remembers him to be. He also comes with enemies—the face that lurks in the lost parts of Darrell’s memory and the God Darrell can’t forgive. They both want to finish what they started.

Facing clashing elements of faith and yearning, Darrell and Callie must battle a social engineering expert with an agenda that takes homeland security to a whole new battlefield and will leave you with the uneasy realization that locking your doors will be useless.

HEA, stand alone, with no cliffhanger.

Book Takeaway:

There is only one race - the human race, but there are those who would use their avenues of influence to weaponize our differences against us for their own purposes.

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Why the author wrote this book:

Domestic Enemies grew out of a short story I wrote in 2014 (though the seeds were planted much earlier). I was winding down my law enforcement career and fearing for those just beginning theirs.
It was the early days of the violent, destructive racial protests against law enforcement action (sometimes law enforcement mistakes—more frequently, it didn’t matter). Even then, the various sources of media were exacerbating the hatred and violence. Instead of moving toward racial reconciliation, forgiveness, and healing—racial division was being weaponized for criminal, ideological, and political gain.
DOMESTIC ENEMIES was my first novel, but I chose to lay it aside for a few years. I feel the Lord orchestrated the delay because the story’s time had not come. It began as what I call a Christian horror story to warn against horror stories. I wanted to convey the responsibility that falls on those of us who weave words and tell tales. Like law enforcement, we bear the burden of where each of our literary bullets land and their potential for destruction. The story grew into a novel. The theme about the hazards of the power of media became mingled with the story’s call for racial redemption. Little did I know how prophetic it would be as evidenced by the last couple of years.
My second novel, EARS TO HEAR was like that as well. Long before anyone had heard of corona viruses or COVID-19 (outside of specific areas of research), I began writing a novel concerning genetic experimentation resulting in a virus that could wipe out the human race. The theme of EARS TO HEAR explored the meaning of life itself and what power individuals should have over the life of another, even if that person was instrumental in bringing the life into existence. Again, God had a far bigger plan for our books than we could see. Isn’t He an amazing author?