Ignominious

One day he was a national hero. The next, he was a traitor sentenced to life in prison. Curtis "Chuck" Bordello seemed destined for greatness. A brilliant U.S. Naval Intelligence officer and top graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he possessed the intelligence, talent, and ambition to rise to the highest levels of military command. Then everything collapsed. Framed for treason and condemned by the country he served, Chuck loses his career, his freedom, his identity, and the future he believed was his. When circumstances finally give him another chance, simply clearing his name is no longer enough. He has seen too much about the forces operating behind governments, intelligence agencies, military institutions, corporations, and global power. Chuck begins again under a new identity and sets into motion a plan that will take decades to complete. What begins as a struggle for survival and justice grows into an extraordinary pursuit of wealth, influence, technological supremacy, and control. As Chuck builds a secret empire, advanced technology and artificial intelligence give him capabilities that few governments can match. But every step toward power requires another compromise. Loyalty becomes negotiable. Deception becomes necessary. Violence becomes a tool. Even the people he loves may have to be sacrificed for the future he intends to create. Over the course of fifty years, the man once branded a traitor becomes powerful enough to challenge the very systems that destroyed him. Yet one question remains: Can a man defeat corruption without eventually becoming what he set out to destroy? Ignominious is an ambitious military and political conspiracy thriller blending espionage, covert operations, artificial intelligence, speculative technology, psychological drama, betrayal, and moral conflict. It is a story about one man's determination to reclaim control of his life, and the staggering price of gaining enough power to change the world.

Bruce K. Hansen, is the author of Alpha Blue, Art of Deception, and Ignominious. Bruce uses character driven stories that depict the world we live in. His settings start from a past, move to the present, and envisions a future. Characters in Bruce's novels are unique, relatable, memorable and deal with complex human psychologies. The world is like the Gordian knot-it's intricate, complicated, and confusing and often makes no sense. Bruce cuts the knot and leaves it lying on the floor for all to examine. Bruce specializes in evoking his readers emotions-fear, love, sadness, humor, horror, pride, disgust, anger, joy, and intrigue. Bruce lays out an unsolvable problem then takes his reader on a journey to solve it.