America’s ‘FINAL SOLUTION’ to its War on Drugs. Black men are disappearing, being abducted. And no one is asking questions. Not the media, not the police, not the government. They’re participating.
BALTIMORE – The highly-anticipated debut conspiracy thriller, "The Garvey Protocol: Inspired By True Events" by Eric Christopher Webb, arrives at bookstores everywhere this week, including Amazon and Amazon Europe. For 90 days, a digital version will exclusively be available for the Amazon Kindle and then later for other eReader devices as well.
The novel seizes upon the Black community's long held suspicions regarding America's War on Drugs, the disparity of investigations of missing Blacks and the unresolved questions surrounding Black church arsons in the 1990s by offering a chilling premise: Black men are disappearing, being abducted, and no one is asking questions, not the government, not the police. They're participating.
"For obvious reasons, my hope is that the novel will both entertain and enlighten," said Webb, author of four other books, including the National Black Authors Tour bestseller, "Love Letters, Death Threats & Suicide Notes." "While `The Garvey Protocol' is a work of fiction, readers will find a story that is built around both well-known and some not-so well known facts and occurrences – those that will make many of us pause."
Webb, a multitalented writer, educator, performer and social entrepreneur, is also a former Washington news correspondent for Thomson Newspapers and teaches at The Graduate School, USA.
Aside from the novel's official website at www.garveyprotocol.com, the author also engages his audience on a number of social media platforms with fan and related sites for Facebook facebook.com/thegarveyprotocol, Twitter @garveyprotocol and the "GARVEYPROTOCOLTV" channel on Youtube.
The "GARVEYPROTOCOLTV" Channel, which Webb encourages his potential readers to subscribe and watch, offers both original content, including its official trailer and 'mockumentaries,' and its favorite videos, which also provides an introduction to the not-so well known facts and occurrences that Webb speaks of.
"The video news clips and documentaries really complete the experience by offering a foundation and backstory for the novel," Webb said. "For some, the revelations of Black peonage (slavery long after the Civil War), CIA involvement in the crack cocaine trade and subtle mentions of government contingency plans for concentration camps for its citizens during the Iran-Contra hearings may be
a bit unbelievable, but true."
The novel, itself, opens with a prologue based on a now reportedly missing Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) 9-1-1 emergency call transcript, where its caller befalls an unknown fate after mysterious assailants pursue and then break-in to his home in Upper Northwest DC home during the call. Midway through the transcript, the caller speculates that he might be in danger because he found a mysterious government file in the seat pocket of an airplane and posted its contents on the Internet as a joke. The rest of the book recounts events leading up to the transcript as well as what follows.
Garvey Protocol readers are shown that Hip hop icon Tupac Shakur predicted it – the U.S. government declaring Black men a threat to National Security and targeting them. But how would they do it, and who among them would they target first?
As part of the federal government's War on Drugs, a clandestine body resurrects a NSA Cointelpro-era plan that uses the Black church arsons in the South among other things as a distraction. During the early 1990s, the plan initially targets Black street level drug dealers, but then, subsequently all Black men.
Investigative reporter Cinque Solomon unwittingly stumbles upon the key to the truth while covering what he believes to be another drug-related murder in a violence-plagued Southeast, DC neighborhood. To maintain their plan,professionals are sent to kill him, and anyone he comes in contact with is being murdered. Raising the stakes, they've framed him for three murders, and aside from the U.S. Intelligence community and the police, they've enlisted the aid
and resources of the brutal drug trafficker he helped to incarcerate and who had repeatedly tried to kill him.
Everyone is turning on him: the government, his newspaper, the police and the Black community. Cinque is running out of time, and to prove his innocence and to stop them, he must face three enemies: one, a ruthless and methodical drug lord, who blames him for his own downfall; the second, a faceless enemy, who wields the resources and power of America's Intelligence community; and lastly, himself, who is burdened with the guilt, anguish and rage surrounding the
drug-related deaths of his mother and his sister, in a race not only to save his life, but possibly the lives of thousands of others, including those he considers scourges on the nation's urban communities.
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