Confluence

<p>A century of political military and social history come together in a devastating confluence of evil in this panoramic tale woven out of seemingly unconnected people and events. The fictional plot is intricately interwoven with little-known historical facts that make the incredible story frighteningly believable.</p><p>A treasure hunter in Key West in the 1950s a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in the 1960s anti-war activists in the 1970s eco-warriors in the 1980s post-cold war subversives international terrorists a present-day whitewater river guide and a burned-out detective from LAPD form the cast of characters. </p><p>Frustrated that their revolution never materialized a cadre of geriatric radicals hatches a plot to blow up hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest and replicate the great ice-age floods that carved the Columbia River Gorge. They get support through an uneasy alliance between old-line communists the new incarnation of Russia's KGB the government of Iran and a would-be terrorist in Key West who has possession of a cold war era hydrogen bomb.</p><p>Undetected by Homeland Security the unfolding plot is uncovered by Swede Larsson Town Marshal in Riggins Idaho (population 406) while investigating the seemingly accidental drowning of a young man in the Salmon River. As the scope of the conspiracy becomes apparent Swede is joined in a desperate race to prevent a cataclysmic flood by his river guide friend Cassidy Pierce and former Vietnam combat pilot Terry Caldwell.</p>