The Perfect Weapon

I hope you enjoyed that fresh water you had this morning, either from the tap or bottled. If our government hadn't been diligent in its duties, you would only have a few months to live because you would have been poisoned.

In my book, The Perfect Weapon, a group of terrorists develop a weapon that contaminates 90 percent of America's water supply. Because we as a people, and we as a nation, have become so reliant on bottled and safe water, we are easy marks for these terrorists.

There is a parasite that lives in stagnant water that, once ingested, is mostly fatal because it lives in our bloodstream and migrates to our brain, where it wreaks havoc and finally kills the host. These terrorists find this parasite and modify it so it can be dehydrated or frozen, and nothing, including modern antibiotics, can kill it except boiling it.

Once a large-enough supply of dehydrated parasites are produced, these terrorists hire a pilot and copilot to fly this deadly cargo over the reservoirs that provide water for the one hundred largest cities in the US. This cargo is then released by the preprogrammed flight of the plane.

After a few weeks, the results of the parasite infection begin to raise its ugly head. Thousands of Americans begin to get sick and, as there is no antidote, await a long and painful death because the American scientific community and esteemed government said this couldn't happen.

Once one hundred thousand people begin dying per day, and two hundred million people are sick, our government launches a three-pronged attack to wipe out the people responsible and the manufacturing place where the poison is being stored for use against other nations. They are successful because of help from a few overseas operatives that hate the man responsible for so many needless deaths.

All this country needs now is an antidote! This is stumbled on accidentally by a rancher in South Central Texas, and millions are saved from the painful parasitic death. The president of the US invites this Good Samaritan to the White House for a Fourth of July celebration the nation and the Samaritan will never forget.