After reading an article in the Washington Post regarding cruise missiles from small boats being the number one vulnerability of the U.S., author Jack Cade pondered what would happen if cruise missiles were launched at San Diego. This pondering has become his new book SECRETO.
“Considerable research and working with consultants on the technical issues and the psychological issues has gone into this book,” Cade says. SECRETO is fiction, but an attack such as this could happen.” The places and things are real. There are and have been people like this,” he explains.
SECRETO is the story of a radical idea hatched in the White House: Why not create small secret teams of private agents in the major cities of the United States that can work with the local police to ferret out plots in their formative stages? And why not let these teams have direct access to the President of the United States, bypassing the bureaucracy that bungled and delayed the direct action that might have prevented the 9/11 disaster? And now, a newly-formed government intelligence agency has fragmentary data indicating that a terrorist attack in the United States could be imminent. They don’t know how large it will be, or exactly when it will occur. Time is running out. It is the mission of the secret team in San Diego, headed by master criminologist and mathematical savant Alexander Quickly and his right-hand actionman Julius Burton, ex–Navy Seal and CIA covert agent, to uncover and foil the plot. Only a miracle will prevent disaster.
Cade founded two successful companies in industrial systems and aerospace engineering. Before that he was a U.S. naval officer, worked for an international engineering and construction corporation as a project engineer, and for aerospace companies in rocket and missile engineering. He has an Engineering Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
He now lives in San Diego with his wife, and is writing a sequel to SECRETO, with the same characters, about The Singularity—the time when the computer can duplicate itself and is more intelligent than a human in all respects: the harbinger of an Orwellian age, which was touched upon in SECRETO. He is the author of the non-fiction, Bloody Treason—on Solving History’s Greatest Murder Mystery.
