"Kill him," the gravelly voice said on the speaker to the cream of the Russian and Muslim terrorist assassination squad infiltrating America from Canada and on their way to El Paso to kill lawyer Steven Vandorol. Steven was leading the Texas prosecution of Federal government corruption and with national implications before the fall presidential election.
El Paso Sunrise is the first of two stand-alone novels that together tell a grand story of love, passion, intense hate, violence and horror all brought keenly alive against the intentional radical transformation of America in a Second American Civil War by progressives, Muslim radicals and the American Left from a Constitutional Republic. It is also a portrayal of a future with the literal choking of Canada, Great Britain, Europe, the Middle East, particularly the sovereign State of Israel by Islamist radicals, ISIL, Hezbollah, Hamas and the spreading cancerous malignancy of a worldwide Muslim Caliphate.
Steven Vandorol had it all but lost everything when he fell hard from grace in the ultra-rich Sunbelt. Escaping to Washington, D.C., he found himself embroiled in evil, corruption, sexual obsession and addiction but, confronting his own demons, found peace and serenity in El Paso.
Then stunning Vanessa Carson, Steven's attorney friend and confidant amid the evil of D.C. brings her sunshine smile back into his life in El Paso and together as one, face their worst nightmares or rape, kidnapping and murder during the ultimate crises of a second American civil war started by powerful forces and only Steven and Vanessa stand in their way . . .
While El Paso Sunrise is a graphic story of evil in this world, it is also a timeless love story about goodness, faith, grace and friendship blossoming during a national emergency -- a clarion call to the world to remember what truly matters -- asking the question . . .
Can Steven force his own country and government to face their own demons before it's too late?
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El Paso Sunset
Within El Paso Sunset, Steven and his friend, Vanessa Carson, face their worst nightmare of rape, kidnapping, and murder during the ultimate crisis of a Second American Civil War started by dark, sinister, and shadowy forces and only Steven and Vanessa stand in the way. El Paso Sunset is the second and continuation of two stand-alone novels that together make a story of love, passion, obsession, intense hate, pure evil, violence, and horror, all brought keenly alive against the panorama of the radical transformation of the great American Constitutional Republic.
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Interview with Louis Bodnar
Why El
Paso, Texas, as a location for the novels?
The story happens in El Paso, celebrates El Paso, and
was written by me, mostly in El Paso, all while I was living and
practicing law there from 1987 to 2002. Although I’m an “Okie” at heart and an
Oklahoma native, I love El Paso and the people in the El Paso/Ciudad
Juarez border area, and still have many friends, colleagues, and contacts
that I accumulated there during the almost 15 years I lived there. The people
in the El Paso/Juarez Border-Plex, as they call it, with its six-million people
in a five square mile area, are great, friendly, and wonderful people -- hard
working, strong family, good Christians.
And the area, the western-most city in Texas, with its mile-high
Franklin Mountains, has the most brilliant, spectacular sunrises and
magnificent, almost magical sunsets in the world! The Good Lord has truly blessed West Texas.
It was in El Paso that, after a lifetime of turmoil, chaos, and
survival, I finally found peace and serenity.
I hope that El Paso Sunrise and El Paso Sunset will do the
same for El Paso, the city, just like Marty Robbins’s song, “El Paso,” did
in the late ‘50s.
What is the over-all theme of
the two novels?
The novels also are a grand story of love, passion, intense hate, violence, and horror, all brought keenly alive against the panorama of the radical transformation of America by radical, insidious, and cancerous forces – forces that threaten to annihilate and destroy the very fabric of the American Dream and way of life of our beloved Constitutional Republic – and turn it into a Marxist dictatorship. It is also a portrayal of a future with the literal choking of Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly the sovereign State of Israel by Islamist radicals and the spreading cancerous malignancy of a worldwide Caliphate.
The two novels
together depict the corruption of government, education, religion, the family
and culture in America by a variety of bad actors, fueled by a corrupt,
propaganda “fake” news main-stream media, that subverted all that was good and
turned into abject evil…and also timely depicts the crumbling, and addictive
American culture and society, both in America and in this chaotic, turbulent, corrupt,
and evil world that professes a religion of selfishness, lust, power, control,
and greed…all of which is slowly killing America and would continue in the rest
of the world unabated until the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
What are the
underlying themes?
On a deeper level, my
books tell a story of excruciating pain of escapism and addiction, crisis and
survival, and the final triumph of faith, grace, love, and commitment. As
a story of complex emotions, vulnerability, and tenderness, intimacy, and
feeling, it draws darkly profound conclusions that are astonishing and
provocative, yet exhilaratingly joyous.
Was there a particular
source you found useful in writing the books?
While the novels are
primarily a timeless love story, much of the factual background for the novels
is from Steve Emerson’s The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT),
especially the use of the indictment and the Federal conspiracy prosecution and
proceedings in the 2014 Federal District Court case
in Dallas, Texas, that resulted in various terror organizations being placed on
the State Department’s list of active terrorist organizations.
He was educated in the United States in Oklahoma, receiving an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, and was a candidate for an LLM in International and Comparative Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
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