Surrender Aurora

by W. Strawn Douglas

Overview

From NA meetings to Nellis Air Force Base and the war with ISIS. Just as James McGregor is settling down, into the surrender of the partying life of a man close to taking college seriously and ending his wild days and ways, he gets pulled into a drug test with global ramifications. The drug clears the fog of his pot smoking past, but opens him up to an unexpected future. His Marine Corps security clearance is reactivated and he finds himself battling ISIS piloted fighter jets over the deserts of Syria in a neck and neck chase to stop a barbaric act of aviation terrorism. James finds a new meaning to surrender, and a serenity prayer that saves more than a thousand lives. All that and a new way to pay for college.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152983746
Publisher:	W. Strawn Douglas
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	1,284,618
File size:	262 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William Strawn Douglas writes under the name W. Strawn Douglas, because there are too many more famous William Douglas's he'd otherwise have to compete with for name space! This Douglas, born in 1961, grew up immersed in the medical system. His father was a physician at the world famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His mother was a nurse and nursing instructor. A grandfather was a physician as well. Douglas currently resides in the U.S. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Previous to his 2016 move there, he spent more than two decades as a resident at Minnesota's State Security Hospital, in Saint Peter, Minnesota. He had been committed there by the courts in 1993, diagnosed as Mentally Ill and Dangerous. That was after he assaulted a young woman during a schizophrenic episode, his disordered thinking wanting to create an "incident" to draw "the law's" attention to local drug distribution he found objectionable. Douglas has attended the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. He is a U.S. Marine veteran, and has worked in the oilfields of Wyoming and as a cook at the famed Seward Café on the West Bank of Minneapolis. He has worked as a graphic artist, and in life before Saint Peter, he was also an avid bicyclist. Douglas admits to having been active for years as a user of what he calls short order soft drugs. He says he has even participated in distributing some of them. But he also claims to have never used the harder addictive street drugs. These days, Douglas' schizophrenia is stable and controlled by medication. He spent much of his time at Saint Peter reading science fiction and works on philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, conspiracy theories, and drugs and addiction. Within his studies, Douglas has maintained a focus on ideas about how the shapes of future governments could impact personal liberty, and he has tried to combine all of his interests within some of his published science and speculative fiction.