Chasing the Dawn

About the Book

There has been enmity between Israel and Arab countries from time immemorial. Many religious historians believe the hatred dates back to when Abraham was compelled to make a choice between his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. As recorded in the Holy Bible, the patriarch, Abraham, was forced to choose Isaac, the son of his beloved Sarah, over Ishmael, his son by Hager, Sarah’s handmaiden. Over the thousands of years that followed, the animosity between Israel and Arab countries has remained, gaining in such intensity that the United Nations struggles to maintain an uneasy peace. This uneasy peace has reached across the ocean to touch lives in other countries—in particular, the United States of America. Americans Reggie Nutsbagh and Toby Preston rushed to Israel when Joel Garza, brother-in-law to Toby and blood brother to Reggie, finds himself the target of a vicious anti-Jew attack, but the entire state of Israel is threatened with annihilation by an Arab group that also includes prominent Jews. It is a race against time as the team from Secure Dreams once again joins the fight against terrorism, where nothing is as it seems. Ideologies are out the window in this rousing tale of right versus wrong. Innocent blood will be shed, and many lives are disrupted before a tenuous peace is reached. In a tale of action that rivals any written or read, this novel will restore in the reader that right will prevail if the people stand for what is right. Evil rears its ugly head in cities in Europe that try too often to stay clear of taking sides. Right will prevail, but at a terrible cost.

About the Author

The authors, Ronald Beach and Lee Pitts, are natives of Bremerton, Washington, and have been friends since childhood. Both are retired veterans of the US Army. Ronald Beach did his twenty-four years in the military in the Armored Cavalry and Tank Battalions and eventually rose to the rank of command sergeant major (E9). Ron served a tour of combat duty in Vietnam in the Twenty-Fifth Division and later as a civilian volunteered as an advisor to the Eleventh Armored Cavalry during the first Gulf War on the M1 and M1A1 Tanks. Lee Pitts served as a combat engineer and was also in the Vietnam War and rose to the rank of first sergeant (E8) and retired after twenty years of service.