Dawn of a New Day

by Mariano, NIck

  California had finally dug out from the rubble and was beginning to repair and rebuild the city of San Francisco. Scientists continued to analyze the recent earthquakes in an effort to determine if and when another one might hit.

  The current President had approximately six months left in his term and Democratic and Republican candidates traveled the United States campaigning. Some the candidates preached a more aggressive stand against terrorism and some even proposed keeping all Middle Easterners out of the country.

  ISIS, although severely crippled by the New Years Day attacks, was not completely gone and began to reorganize. Other terrorist groups and Lone Wolves lurked in the background and waited for an appropriate opportunity to launch new attacks.

  The Year 2016 looked like it would be a very interesting year indeed.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Nick Mariano was a Special Agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security for over 25 years and traveled around the world protecting people and diplomatic installations. His assignments took him to Turkey, The Netherlands, Denmark, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Italy and the Island of Malta. He currently resides in Myrtle Beach, SC, where he is a professional photographer and scuba diving instructor, in addition to now being a published author. He has received numerous awards for his photographs and displays many of his works at galleries in the Myrtle Beach area. He has written five other books, which are currently available on the Internet. You can review his writings at his web site http://www.myrtlebeachbooks.us and his photographs at www.worldpics.org