The two women have a history with the task force commander, Admiral Sean Phillips, and his best friend, Flag Captain Anthony Knox. What of the ones left behind?
What would our world be like if Napoleon didn't rise to power, if Washington perished in the French and Indian War, if Lenin didn't get back to Russia to lead the Revolution or if Hi**er died in the World War I trenches? Well Kevin Klesert, a student of history, successful businessman, and keen observer of his own baby boom generation, has created a fascinating alternative history in his action pa
cked new novel, The Other Side of Light. The adventure begins when a 21st Century United States Naval Task Force, with Secretary of Defense Alicia Calhoun and her attaché Navy Captain Renée Aslan aboard, deploys out of San Diego to test a new stealth capability. After successfully proving Specter’s light bending ability to make the entire task force invisible, a series of inconceivable events sends the entire task to December 3, 1941, twelve hundred miles southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. Operating in a vacuum absent the command structure which sent them on this mission, the difficulty of their situation, the implications of their actions and uncertainty of their fate brings forth a number of romantic liaisons. While the men and women of the task force battle the Axis powers of WWII, the senior civilian leadership on board and the Captains of each ship wrestle with the ramifications of their decisions, religious dissent in the ranks and outright betrayal. Realizing they are carrying the knowledge of how history played out over the last 70 years, a furious debate ensues regarding the ethics of this singular chance to alter the ramifications of previous decisions which proved disastrous. Within the grasp of this unlikely group of dedicated public servants resides the power to change the world, quite possibly for the betterment of mankind. To implement these changes, they engage with the most powerful leaders of this key decade in world history. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and a host of other historical figures are brought to life in new situations with cogent writing that captures their personalities as events race forward. The 21st Century Secretary of Defense addresses a joint session of the mid-20th Century U.S. Congress and convenes a new Versailles Conference to right the wrongs of 1919, this in anticipation of her journey back, with Admiral Phillips and half the task force, to the 21st Century. Will their efforts to create a better world get scuttled on the rocky shoals of good intentions? The answers to these questions and more come to light in a surprise ending.
