“American Renaissance; Or Inquiry Concerning Political Justice in the Arts & its Influences on Morals and Happiness – Book 1: Missions Dangerous” by Amory Patrick Blaine has been released worldwide. This 424-page book blurs the lines between memoir, fiction, philosophical treatise, and a true historical exposé, following the first-person account of an agent code-named Amadeo Effscott, the sole survivor of a covert government mission of unspeakable evil and secrecy with potentially apocalyptic consequences - but enlightened hope for the fate of humankind.
Through layers of interconnected intrigue, readers of this controversial book (a recipient of the gold Badge of Achievement from the Irish-based International Review of Books for its investigative research and literary merit) learn of a high-stakes, clandestine operation hatched to kill a revolutionary economic threat led by the late American socio-economic thinker and intellectual, Sean Dorian Knight, an emerging artist whose provocative vision of art theory, history, and spirituality in the early 1990s elicited an aggressive and tactically lethal response from government agencies at nearly the same precise hour as the Feds’ infamous raid on the 1993 Branch-Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. As the conspiracies of this never-before reported crime go deeper and deeper, the rippling impact of Dorian’s visionary work and philosophy being preached in Paris, France (a whole continent away), becomes increasingly apparent, revealing shocking details about the nature of Capitalism, the invisible role played by artists as a separate, unrecognized class of people in society, and the continuous, millennial rumors surrounding the supposed imminent and prophesied Second Coming of Christ.
At the crux of the mystery, with the additional weight of testimony culled from these memoirs recovered from the leak of top-secret documents, this action-narrative raises a specter of the clashing adversaries of Good and Evil within the pages of the story and its in-depth analysis of Western culture that eerily carries over into the real life of our present day. Exposing overlooked facts as much from the world of fine art as from the inner workings of paramilitary police state tactics recorded in the bloody fallout of sinister historical precedents and widely accepted circumstantial evidence, Blaine shows a definitive pattern of the tendency and willingness of established forces to use violence to suppress the spread of sacred knowledge. It is the same kind of criminal coverup, however, the book argues, when hallowed institutions, such as even the finest international museums of the world, have sunk to the level of becoming co-conspirators, caught up in the grip of billionaire collectors and the aegis of Post Modernism to shore up the false, ugly art-objects of a decadent society teetering on the brink of nuclear war, widespread economic chaos, and financial collapse.
Beneath these elements of story as well as the confessional style and hesitance to believe or admit the awful truth of what transpired - while the narrator’s participation is captured by his description of a brutal interrogation by the French police - the book functions as a modern-day Gospel, casting a light on the suppressed story of Dorian Knight’s life, the apocryphal accounts of miracles, alleged censorship, and details of his economic message before his untimely death. Including his penetrating examination and indictment of the present-day art world in comparison to the long aesthetic tradition of Western art history that paints a foreboding picture of our changing technological era – questioning and holding the very essence of art as being intrinsically religious in nature - the story uncovers a supposed plot by the military-industrial-complex (in collusion with a cabal of high-end Chelsea and London galleries and suspicious Vatican emissaries) to thwart the return of the actual Jesus in a manner that is nearly Biblical in scope.
Discussing the relationship between classical icons and artworks of beauty that for centuries formed the predominant nexus between humanity’s experience of the image, likeness, and presence of God to concerns surrounding the potentially revolutionary consequences that could follow from this class consciousness being raised in the minds of tens of millions of impoverished contemporary artists out of work, and the future threat to society they could pose, the narrator ruminates over what good or bad might happen should such creators living today ever gain access to this trove of classified memoirs and top secret documents American Renaissance now stands poised to reveal.
Pulling together seemingly disparate topics to build a comprehensive philosophy of the artist’s place in the future of Capitalism, as well as American society, Blaine connects the dots from the declassified journals of a never-before disclosed covert lethal operation in surprising fashion across disciplines and fields of study, and uses a compelling, exciting narrative to bring his ideas to life. This existential and distinctly political book touches on true crime, religious fanaticism, art history, and so much more, weaving a fascinating web of events and concepts that will transform the way readers see the world.
American Renaissance – Book 1: Missions Dangerous (ISBN: 9781965340523 / 9781960142337) has been featured on NPR with Suzanne Lang and the podcast Eyewitness to History with Josh Cohen. It can be purchased through retailers worldwide, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The hardcover retails for $39.99 and paperback retails for $24.99, and the ebook retails for $4.99. Review copies and interviews are available upon request.
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From the back cover:
Analyzing the most heinous of hidden true historical crimes from the recently declassified papers and diaries of a compromised government informant found to have resurfaced during the infamous FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, American Renaissance traces the sudden rise and tragic ambition of the late political and socio-economic revolutionary, Sean Dorian Knight. A brilliant young American artist whose radical theory of art history at the turn of the millennium attracts a violent religious following that threatens to upend not only the bonds of world peace as well as Wall Street, but forever change our faith in civilization as we know it.
Taken from the confidential government cables and confiscated journals of a young American soldier/spy and aspiring poet in Paris at the time, the 1st person testimony is at once the story of one of the artist’s closest and most loving disciples, and an important public record of the narrator’s harrowing experience as the sole survivor of a mission of unspeakable evil and secrecy. Beginning sometime after a violent explosion in the City of Light, when having passed several days in a coma, he awakens only to discover that three of his platoon mates are dead. At the same time, he receives his shocking lethal orders from his new commanding officer and is ultimately faced with the cruel choice of having to either kill his best friend or the woman that he loves.
So, we are led through the eyes of an embedded informant on the mind-bending tale and cryptic path of art history, espionage, and government secrets: On the hunt for a mysterious enemy, one whose anonymous identity and prophesied rise – till this day – the government will use any amount of deadly force to keep hidden and destroy.
About the author:
Amory Patrick Blaine brings together the present-day world colliding at the intersection of art, commerce, religion, and digital transformation in a body of work that is both monumental and epic in scope. Drawing upon a vast range of personal experience, travel, and distinct philosophical perspectives, his writing weaves a fascinating tale of raw discovery collected from the realm of espionage, mystery, true crime, as well as foreign policy. Questioning and weighing in on everything from how our Western identity evolved from its enchanted medieval beginnings to how AI and the IoT is changing our planet’s future economy and the cultural legacy we will pass on to the next generation of leaders.
Fresh out of college, he attended OCS Marine Corps at Quantico, VA during the early 90s, after which his classified military records were expunged without characterization. The memoirs released here for the first time in novel format are the only remaining documentation of his time in Paris after the First Gulf War. Volumes 1, 2, & 3 were completed in several stages while the author was living in both Europe and New York City.
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