The Christian Madison Chronicle
Four adventure novels that trace the adventures of Christian Madison from his time as a young Special Forces soldier serving in Laos and Vietnam during the 1960’s to his unofficial efforts to prevent average citizens from being coerced into acting as domestic terrorists are referred to among the author’s numerous followers as the Christian Madison Chronicle. All the novels are drawn from the personal reflections and adventures of William Jeffries, himself a West Point graduate and career soldier, some of which may actually be true.
The first novel in the series, Trap Door to the Dark Side (2006), takes the form of a personal memoir of a young army Ranger coerced into working for a civilian intelligence agency and working with a tribe of Montagnards living along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, He and his sidekick, Sergeant Willie P Tootle, are charged with shutting down the Ho Chi Minh trail and rescuing American and allied POWs during the Vietnam War:
This was savage reality. Here every tree tried to kill you. Every vine reached out to sink its fangs into soggy gray skin, and every noise promised years of cold-drenched, screaming nightmares in the God-blessed land of Select Comfort Beds and mocha frappuccinos. Nothing prepares you for that stark reality, not even the sustained fatigue and sleeplessness of Ranger School, and no one who was not there can ever comprehend the fear and exhilaration of the adrenalin rush that frame the emotions of those eternal moments. This was another perplexing paradox of war. Those who did not die have never been so much alive. The scary thing was that I loved it, and no one I knew or cared about would ever understand that bizarre reaction.
The second novel in the series, The Spirit of the Oryx (2009), chronicles how now retired Colonel Madison tries to resolve the murder of his former partner in Vietnam, SFC Tootle, who had been caught up in a bizarre terrorist plot to destroy the Port of Ras Laffan in Qatar. Was he working as a mercenary for Blackwater Security or an agent of the CIA and why was he murdered? The plots underway would completely destabilize the Middle East and pit Israel against Saudi Arabia while the entire Gulf erupts in flames. Madison and his reassembled buddies from his past attempt to save the Qatari royal family from assassination, prevent the destruction of the scientific facilities in University City in Doha, and thwart the efforts of several sinister forces at play.
With the 3rd novel, Concord (2009), the unexplained murder of a fusion scientist in Grenoble, France and the abduction of a beautiful colleague in Montreux, Switzerland, propel Colonel Christian Madison into action against an international cabal of terrorists who seek to steal cyber and plasma technology from the US government and fusion technology from ITER in southern France. As Iran and Russia are on the verge of precipitating World War III, Madison, and a band of patriots known only as Concord, must confront a group of left-leaning socialists who have recently been elected to power in Washington, DC, who are ignoring the terrorist threat, disrupting the free market system, and undermining the principles of the US Constitution.
Fourth in the Christian Madison Chronicle is the 2017 Framing the Sacred: The Shadow of Death. This novel, that hit the bookshelves the week before the largest mass casualty event involving tourists in the West—the Las Vegas Music Festival—predicted why and how this officially “still-unexplained rampage by a lone gunman” was caused by…..Well, you really should read the novel. Such an event was totally predictable and preventable and, because of the West’s obsession with social media of various kinds, will occur again.
For the time being that is where the Christian Madison Chronicle takes a pause, although numbers 5 and 6 are on the way. Would it surprise you to know that a real pandemic is raging during one of them?