CLEAN BREAK: A Military Political Thriller
Subtitle: (E-book Version)
Publisher: Elmburg / McCall
Published: E-book 2025
Format: E-Book
Number of pages: 444
First sentence: Whenever Ben Cannon goes out in public, he goes with two, maybe three vehicles at most, depending on the situation. Never travels in a convoy or motorcade; doesn’t want to draw attention to himself or get bunched up. The follow vehicle, or vehicles, are civilian cars. Older model Fords or Chevy sedans, tan, white or black, nondescript, blend in with traffic. If it’s a high security op like this one, they use three vehicles. The follow car hangs back, and the third vehicle shadows on a parallel route the next street over or as near as possible, so the team will be virtually undetectable, yet close enough to assist one another if they encounter trouble. Which they always expect.
Description: Clean Break: A Political Thriller (E-book version), written by M. Rutledge McCall from an original story idea by Eric Elmburg...

In this political thriller set in contemporary times, America reels in shock after the unexpected death of the President just weeks after winning the primaries. He is hastily replaced on the ticket with a former Marine general, who wins the White House on promises of restoring a nation weary from a decade of bickering among her citizens over the direction of the country.

And then, just 90 days into the new President's term, simultaneous terrorist explosions in two different US cities hundreds of miles apart wipe out billions of dollars worth of the nation's petroleum supplies. The President reacts by issuing a series of executive orders that economically cripple the nation and do nothing to find the terrorists.

Angry citizens take to the streets, and America is soon veering toward the brink of violent internal collapse, making conditions perfect for a hero—a person of grit, wisdom, and selfless courage—to rise up and shout enough. This is the story of that man. His name is Ben Cannon, a husband, a father, a former military officer, an owner of a small business in the heartland. 

Ben is thrust to the forefront of the nation’s rapid deterioration one day when a clash between police and protestors results in an innocent woman being killed who was simply trying to get to her car and get home. Problem is, Ben happens to have history with the new President. Brutal, violent history, in the same Marine Corps special ops teams that bred the President. And the stage is set for the tearing apart of the greatest nation since the end of the Roman Empire. 

And waiting in the wings to pick up the scraps if Cannon and America's President go to war against each other is the perpetrator who financed the terrorist explosions that set the nation on this violent path.