Crosscurrents

"Crosscurrents" is an adventure that crosses continents and goes into the depths of the South Atlantic Ocean to accomplish the obdurate, uncompromising mission of one of history’s greatest revolutionaries. After successfully toppling the U.S.-backed Cuban dictatorship, the legendary Che Guevara moved his armed revolution worldwide. With only the support of his close friend Fidel Castro in Cuba and sometimes China, he quickly became a key player in the Cold War, hated and hunted by both the U.S. and Soviet Union. A man with his own idealistic convictions about freedom, he turned his back on Soviet leaders, taunting them before the United Nations as no better than Capitalists for living in opulence while falsely preaching equality. And people were listening. "Crosscurrents," while a work of fiction, is solidly based on fact. It is a story of betrayal, loyalty, greed, and the remarkable bonding between men and women of opposing convictions when confronted by a life-threatening common enemy. It is a sometimes-brutal tale of desperate men fighting against odds in the jungles of the Congo and in Bolivia. When the story must go aboard the world’s first deep diving submarine into the hostile depths of the South Atlantic it enters a world man has never before seen, filled with danger and the awesome reality of an unimaginable environment. This is a novel that captures the actuality of the world after World War II when a realignment of Super Powers threatened each other with nuclear destruction. Caught between them were millions of people whose lives were controlled by oppressive governments, countries with riches all the Super Powers plotted to seize. Che Guevara’s cry for people to free themselves is remindful of the American Revolution when men like George Washington and signers of the Declaration of Independence might have been hung as traitors by the British had they lost. "Crosscurrents" is a book all lovers of men willing to die for their convictions in the name of freedom should read.