The Machiavelli Letter

Have you ever wondered would happen in today’s world if the forces of good operated according to Niccolo Machiavelli’s teachings?

Iran is building a nuclear weapon, yet the rest of the world seems powerless to stop it. If he were alive today, what would Niccolo Machiavelli do?

Cornell professor Jack McNair is the world’s leading authority on Machiavelli. So he is amazed, while on a research trip to Florence, when he discovers a long lost letter written by the great Italian philosopher. It lays out a brilliant plan to achieve world domination. Back home, McNair watches today’s geo-political events unfold until he realizes that America’s enemies seem to be following the very plan contained in Machiavelli’s Letter. Though McNair is the only one aware of this coincidence and the danger it brings, he decides to risk everything to prevent it - but not alone.

He recruits an eclectic band of his former students to help him take on the daunting tasks of exposing the plot and convincing Washington to stop it.

David Rodney – Former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and Kremlin. Could he help gain access to the highest levels of government?

Mary McGuire – Internationally-acclaimed journalist and Middle-Eastern expert. Can she discover the link between Islamic terrorists and their benefactors in Moscow?

Albert Taylor – Wealthy founder of TaylorTrade, the first Internet stock brokerage. Will he provide the financial resources to fund their costly efforts?

Mark Ferguson – Rogue, former CIA operative. Can he keep this band of amateurs alive long enough to achieve their goal?

Their quest takes them from Ithaca, to New York, Washington, Beirut, Damascus, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas as they race against time to defeat America’s enemies in a deadly contest of wills.

McNair and his team of modern-day crusaders (crociati) frantically try to assemble compelling evidence before it’s too late. McNair, like a twenty-first century reincarnation of Machiavelli, leads them according the philosopher’s time-worn principles. Most important, they know that …“Politics has no relation to morals.”

If you read The Prince in school, then you know Machiavelli believed that man has a penchant for evil and that sometimes, “the means justifies the ends.” If you have ever been frustrated that while our enemies are deadly serious while the West worries about political correctness, then you should to read The Machiavelli Letter.