American Mole:  The Vespers

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Warning:  The reader is advised that this book may contain material that is deemed violent, sexual or immoral by some.  The material in these passages is the author’s attempt to accurately portray a fictional future.  The author makes no apologies for this content.  He only asks the reader remain open to the ideas presented.

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American Mole: The Vespers is a sequel to War’s End. The story opens with the unthinkable destroying Washington, D.C. and the government with it. Jason Forsythe feels it firsthand, first from the interruption of his physics class, and then the loss of his sister and parents.

Ordered to leave his family home, Jason sets out for his grandmother’s home in the Virginia Mountains. He finds sanctuary and solace there but has lost his plans for college. Jason’s Uncle, Colonel James Forsythe, survives in a bunker under the Pentagon. The new President puts the Colonel in charge of an elite corps of moles to undermine and destroy terrorists, fringe groups, and cults, worldwide.

Jason’s Uncle violates the rules to allow Jason in. After an Ivy League education and advanced military training, he is dropped into the world to pick his target, seek it out, and destroy. Thousands join him.

Jason goes to Chicago without identification and becomes someone else. Later, in Wisconsin, he infiltrates a cult of diabolical proportions with connection to the DC experience. With intuition and good fortune, Jason defeats his worst adversary when he still has years to serve.

He’s on his way to Central America and years to go before he finds out the truth about his family….


Table of Contents

Copyright 2006-8 © Ronald W. Hull 


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 2:

Coming Home     

6/25/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.

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Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.


Chapter 1: 

The First Day

6/4/05


Jason Forsythe emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb strikes Washington, DC.  He helps four classmates get home and ends up with more than he bargained for.

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Jason comes home with trepidation.  His family gone, he must fend for himself.  Shauna returns to complicate his situation.  Finally, an evacuation order forces him to leave the house and head for the only family he has left, his grandmother in Mountain Falls.

            Chapter 3:      Walking Horror                                   6/28/05

Gayle Forsythe survived the blast but had to walk out to save herself.  She assists a former professor to safety.  She makes it to a decontamination station, only to be felled by another malady.

            Chapter 4:      The Family Homestead                       7/23/05

Jason returned to the family homestead and his grandmother, Gail Forsythe, to heal.  He spends his time on the mountain, contemplating what he will do.

            Chapter 5:      A Surprise Visitor                                  7/23/05

Colonel James Forsythe has survived the bomb in the bunker under the Pentagon.  He surprises his mother and nephew with a short visit.  He reveals his secret assignment to Jason and asks him to join.


              Chapter 6:      Joining Up                                                 8/10/05

Jason checks his email and finds that he  is cut off from his friends.  Two envoys from the State Department arrive and Jason and his Grandmother Gail learn the price they will have to pay for him to serve.


                Chapter 7:     The Last Hike                                             9/5/05

As Jason prepares to leave for basic training, Grandmother Gail worries about the family legacy and decides to change her will.  A chance meeting with the lawyer's daughter, Elizabeth, leads to a mountain hike  and an unexpected send off for him.


              Chapter 8:     Basic Training                                             1/19/06

Jason finds basic training to be what he expected, and relatively easy, except for an overdose of training gas that put him in the field hospital.  His physical in St. Louis provides an unexpected surprise.


              Chapter 9:     The Academy                                           1/21/06

The mysterious Academy in some unknown underground destination in the Eastern Mountains contains one unfamiliar element, Jason's uncle.  He has to change his name to remain anonymous to his task.


              Chapter 10:     Special Forces Training                                       4/18/06

JJ excels in Special Forces training.  He rescues an unlikely friend and faces a trial in the Northern Sub Arctic that taxes all of his physical strength and mental ability as he faces off with a curious grizzly.


                Chapter 11:     Triumph and Tragedy                                       5/7/06

JJ graduates from the Academy and is sent to a cheap hotel in Chicago.  A surprise  witrendezvoush his Grandmother Gail is his reward. Gail returns home, only to come to a tragic end in the hands of escaped convicts.

                 Chapter 12:     Gayle's Recovery                                               6/4/06

With the help of Dr. Jonathan Chambers, Gayle gradually recovers her memory.  She falls in love with Chambers, but he dies when he learns Gayle is having his baby.  Gayle returns to Reston, only to learn of her Grandmother's death from her Uncle.


                Chapter 13:     Up by the Bootstraps                                          6/18/06

Returning from his night with his grandmother, JJ realizes that he is on his own.  He starts working for an Internet cafe an uncovers a thief and potential terrorist.  Carl, his roommate, joins the Vespers and disappears.  JJ decides to follow.


                Chapter 14:     Joining the Vespers                                         7/22/06

The next spring, JJ cashes in his savings and leaves Chicago for Central Wisconsin and the Vespers.  What he finds is a Roman Catholic personality cult with followers leading a medieval lifestyle of serfdom.  Sinister feelings surround the cult that he can pick up on but not decipher yet.


                Chapter 15:     Understanding the Man                                         8/1/06

JJ keeps his head down and works hard, alert to the sinister control Pius One has on his pions.  He learns of his Holiness' hedonistic side and discovers cameras and bugs everywhere.  His ability quickly earns him the name of Amos Six and work on the electronic infrastructure of the cathedral.


                Chapter 16:     All Saints Eve                                         8/4/06

Amos Six prepares the unfinished cathedral for the Halloween service.  As the time approaches, Pius One uses increasingly stronger methods to drive weak pions away.  Amos Six uncovers something left by Carl that confirms his suspicions.  At midnight, Pius One reveals a side that runs a chill through his followers and seals their fate.


               Chapter 17:     Family Reunion                                        8/6/06

Shauna Wilson and her son, Jason, return to Reston to sell her Mother's house, only to find it in shambles.  With Gayle's help, they enter the house to find that someone has been living there.  They stake the place out, only to find that the intruder is Becky Fulton, Shauna's high school friend, now homeless.

                 Chapter 18:     Vespers at the Vespers                            9/4/06

Amos Six is given responsibility to  prepare Thanksgiving and Christmas Vespers televised program support in the Great Hall of the Cathedral under the tutelage of Elijah One.  Pius One's largesse backfires and he punishes nearly half of the pions for over indulging in the feast.  Heavy snow softens the sharp, red edges of the deed.



Chapter 19:     A New Year and Role                           9/10/06

Elijah One receives an impossible request from his old friend, Pius One, and is glad that he is leaving the order.  He confides his dreams and fears with Amos Six, letting him know that he has caught the eye of the One.  Together they pull off a Mardi Gras style New Year sevice.  Amos Six is promoted to the brotherhood.



Chapter 20:     The Brotherhood                           10/1/06

With Elijah gone, it is up to Amos Two to produce the weekly satellite broadcast.  With Pius One gone to the four corners of the Earth, his work is logistically difficult.  On the way to the Cathedral one day, Amos Two saves a deer from a pack of dogs and finds out that there are women at the Vespers--at least the doctor in the inner compound, is.


Chapter 21:     Full Circle                          10/22/06

In the year since he had come to the Vespers, Amos Two had come far, from pion to trusted brother, and changed his name to reflect it.  His willingness to tackle diffiicult assignments and keep his nose clean has caught Pius One's eye.  Finally, late one spring night, he is told that he has passed the test and will become a member of the inner sanctum.  But is he ready?






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