The novel focusses on the enormously powerful feelings which ethnic nationalism can generate. Lead characters are the U.S. Secretary of State, his Greek-born wife Eleni, a brutal strongman in China, and a cunning Greek Prime Minister. When an international crisis affecting her native Greece arises, Eleni finds herself suddenly caught between two worlds, that of her adopted country and the land of her roots. As the crisis escalates, she allows emotions of ethnic nationalism to guide her feelings, ultimately placing at risk her loyalty to the United States and even her marriage.
Dennis Menos, the book's author, has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, with emphasis on issues of weapons of mass destruction and their control. His expertise of the subject matter is manifested in the extraordinary manner in which he has woven into the plot of A TEST OF ALLEGIANCE sensitive themes of American foreign policy and on America's role in the world, its goals and limitations. In A TEST OF ALLEGIANCE Menos has given us a spellbinding novel about ethnic nationalism and the passion it generates; a work guaranteed to hold the reader hostage until the final page, a real cliffhanger destined to become a BEST SELLER. In creating an extraordinarily intensely human story of passion, intrigue and adventure, he has given us a story which spans continents in a world as real as only the best fiction can be.
