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 While Ian Duncan MacDonald is the author of two investment books, “Safer Better Dividend Investing” and “Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing”,   He is also the author of three novels.  Today he wants to introduce you to his  novel, “DUEL”. 

 For the last 5 days of April, 2021 a free eBook version of DUEL will be available at amazon.ca/DUEL-Rob-Lyons-1-ebook/dp/B07K6ZMF4

In this podcast Ian will be reading Chapter 2 of DUEL.  To set the scene,  in Chapter 1 we learn that Rob Lyons, an analyst at the State Department, is being sent to the island of Saint Matts to investigate a televised interview by Texas Senator Rick Wilcox.  That morning Wilcox stated that the People’s Republic of China had secretly leased a long abandoned British naval base on the island. 

The Caribbean is the United States private lake. European nations have recognized this for more than a hundred years.   The idea that an Asian power would dare establish a naval base in the Caribbean is outrageous. The senator has called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on this traitorous island. 

For two decades there has been competitive rumblings and posturing between the United States and China.  Within the a few years, China is expected to become the richest most powerful nation in the world.  How will the United States adapt to losing the dominant primary position it has held for 100 years?

The novel deals with a confrontation between the two powerful nations that explodes on the tiny, peaceful, impoverished Caribbean Island of Saint Matts.

For decades, the Chinese have been supplying aid to the Caribbean. They filled an aid vacuum once filled by the United States when they feared the spread of Soviet communism.

Politicians in Washington, St. Matts and China play important roles in this duel.  Rob Lyons becomes caught up in the whirlwind of assassination, power, and romance that swirls around him.

In Chapter two the scene opens in the Senator’s office just hours after his televised interview.

For more information on Ian MacDonald, his books and his art go to his website
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Ian Duncan MacDonald
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