The Butterfly Effect: It started on 9/11

by Alex Blackwell

Overview

September 11, 2001 will forever be etched into people’s minds as 9/11. The al-Qaeda attack on America was an atrocious and senseless assault against humanity. This strike was clearly designed to topple the US from its lofty perch as a superpower. But the momentum of the American machine is simply too great for an isolated event to bring it to its knees – or is it?

Jason Geraghty, a reluctant Irish immigrant to America, lost his beloved wife on 9/11. She was working for a government agency in the north tower of the World Trade Center. In Jason’s mind, that made the United States Government responsible. This was the third and penultimate time they had wronged him. The attack changed everything for Jason. His objective in life transformed into seeking revenge against the Great Satan. He committed himself to singlehandedly creating an apocalyptic event – something that would actually bring down the United States of America after all. Similar to the ‘Butterfly Effect’, coined by Edward Lorenz where a butterfly flapping its wings may result in an apocalyptic event elsewhere in the universe, 9/11 was just the beginning – the first flap of the butterfly’s wing. No event is in truth ever isolated.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153988535
Publisher:	White Seahorse Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Alex Blackwell is a sailing journalist, author, and editor. He frequently writes about sailing technology and sailing adventures, contributing to several magazines, websites and e-zines, including his own, Coastalboating.net. Alex is an independent marketing and communications consultant and mentor to small companies. He is licensed as a commercial Master Mariner by the US Coast Guard.

Alex has enjoyed a professional career as copywriter, marketer and speaker. Born in Chicago, Alex and his family moved to Clew Bay, Ireland when he was 14. Because of his mother’s German heritage, Alex went to school in Germany, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Marine Biology. After starting an oyster hatchery in Ireland, he went to America for a six-month research project. As many people do, he stayed for 20 years. There he was a partner in a business-to-business and consumer marketing firm and commercial printing company, which included a book printing division.

9/11 changed everything for Alex and his Ukrainian-American wife, Daria. In 2008, they left their high-powered lives behind, boarded their boat, Aleria, and sailed across the North Atlantic braving six gales and one strong storm to resettle in Ireland. They then took a year’s sabbatical to sail along the trade winds route to the Caribbean and then back home to Ireland, crossing the Atlantic twice more.

Alex’s novels The Butterfly Effect; It started with 9/11 and The Brotherhood; Acquisition of Power are strictly fiction. They are woven out of the fabric of historical events, his personal experience, and his fertile imagination. The twist is that the plots are so plausible one might think that they are true – and perhaps they are. He has just started a third book (working title: Supremacy) in the Butterfly Effect Series. On the opther hand, Onyx, the Cruising Kitty is a series of short stories writtten in Onyx' voice, which are based on actual events.

His non-fiction books include Happy Hooking - The Art of Anchoring, which he co-wrote with his wife Daria. Happy Hooking is the best-selling anchoring book on Amazon. Following on from his work with oysters, Alex wrote the informative and entertaining oyster cookbook Oyster Delight by Jonathan Mite. It is the definitive guide to enjoying oysters. Daria and Alex have also recently released Cruising the Wild Atlantic Way. This is an informational and pictorial guide to visiting the ports, harbours and islands of the west coast of Ireland by land or by sea. It is already receiving a good deal of attention. His latest book, Self Publishing for Success - Every book deserves to be published, is the result of audience enthusiasm for his seminar on the same subject. This is planned for completion late 2016.

Alex has done the cover and interior design and layout work for the books he and Daria have written.