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Constellations in Risk - Disaster is Great, August 9, 2009
Don E. Peavy, Sr. has taken multifarious areas of life-time training, experiences and marketing tools to write this compelling historical event that addresses the U.S. government's methodology of dealing with terrorist events within its borders, spawned by a U.S. citizen because of America's refusal to address racial issues. "...the Civil Rights Movement was encountering the brutality of a "peculiar institution" that refused to die and continued to reincarnate in ever more horrific forms of oppression. Page 32." In the process of historically chronicling world history events known to most people around the world, the author poses the question to the reader in the form of suspense: Is each character aware of the events to follow based upon their decisions and actions taken? As the author narrates the story, the human developmental angles are so eloquently laid out that they display the author's brilliance in articulating descriptive narrative. I love the way the author transitions smoothly from one character to the other while keeping the story line in its current mode. Graphic descriptions of the environments in which the actors moved were provided, and the author is able to paint the characters as having found romance within violence.
The main characters ultimately were the President, the Assistant, Fredda and Dr Diggs. The President, a deeply religious man, envisioned himself a knight defending his beloved country, but try as he might he kept failing until...The author was able to paint Fredda and Dr. Diggs' passion within the scope of the violence they are encountering. This couple of convenience lucks out when male ego intertwines and the Command Centre and their only real threat, Hammer Head, was destroyed...Dr Diggs reasoned that his involvement with the Assistant was based on his childhood experience when his beloved father who was denied treatment based upon the color of his skin.
Exciting mystery begins with the young photographer John and his friends as they dangerously pursue notoriety. John Theodore Baronford brings to mind the final days of John F. Kennedy, Jr.as he flew across the ocean waters and disappeared into thin air or the fatal crash of Mickey Leland in Ethiopia, dissimilar yet tragic. I perceived that Danger Among the Heavens is about doing things as a group and being allowed to "do it." God...Providence....Hope...laughter....disgust...heritage...raises social consciousness. The author played with my psyche when he relays the details about the murder of Baronford and his friends and the Baronford father being awarded a huge governmental contract, the devastation to the earth's surroundings as a result of the explosion, man's cognitive processing ability versus the beasts after (the) airplane crash, because it is something with my cynical mind I'd believe.
The analogy of the westward expansion using the story of Jack and the Beanstalk was pure genius and provides the readers a new theory on the formulation and history of America and its political, religious, the racial divide, industrialization, socioeconomic system, technological development and feminism issues. There were an abundance of references to brand name products that provided clues to the eras and its similarities to the events transpiring in this historical chronology.
Disaster Among the Heavens and the end result of the Assistant's efforts would be akin to forecasted events in the book of Revelations. Don E. Peavy, Sr. is either living the good life, remembers the good life, luxury or well read and able to recant his readings and professionally place his thoughts on paper. The book is excellent. The author appeals to our emotions, uses one-sided examples, rhetorically-charged language and tone.
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