Few will ever forget what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001, when they first heard the news that the United States was under attack by radical Islamist jihadists using jet planes on kamikaze missions.
I certainly never will.
On that beautiful, sunny, crystal clear Tuesday morning, I was putting the finishing touches on my first novel, a political thriller called "The Last Jihad." The book opens with radical Islamic terrorists hijacking a jet plane and flying a kamikaze attack mission into an American city. The story then leads to an American president launching attacks against terrorists cells in the Middle East, and deciding to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.