Annals of the Element

MWSA Review

When the son of the junior Senator of Minnesota is kidnapped, the Senator ignores the police and contacts a secret organization of vigilantes to get the boy returned and the kidnappers caught. The Patriot Element is not hampered by restrictions that impede law enforcement. A team of Element’s operatives, mostly ex-special operations veterans, quickly rescues the boy and leaves the battered and bruised kidnappers barely alive before making an anonymous call to police. There is no mention to the police of their crime or of the Senator. The senator denies rumors that his son had been taken.

Senator Bull Caruthers, an appointee, is impressed with the Element and arranges for a secret meeting with Patriot Element members to discuss his views on how they can help him “restore America” to its former greatness. What follows is an overview of how, in six years, members of the group get themselves elected to public office and take over the Congress of the United States. Caruthers becomes president and institutes far ranging changes in the U.S. Government. Including, limiting the powers of congress, closing embassies in countries that don’t matter, making prisons as harsh as possible, cutting out many government agencies, reducing salaries of elected and appointed government employees, and creating a national job corps for public works projects to give minimum wage employment to government workers thrown out of a job -- just to name a few. 

To Caruthers and his followers, “the lust for freedom is Americas Achilles heel.” They advocate limiting those freedoms.

Reviewed by: Joe Epley (2014)

Author's Summary

The original Patriot Element founders are retired but agree to meet with L. Trumble “Bull” Caruthers, a decorated Navy Commander and maverick Senator with an eye on the Presidency. He has taken on the impossible mission of returning America to its former glory. Helping with that task are the new breed of Patriot Element members drawn from the millions of highly trained military veterans. To accomplish the prodigious feat, Caruthers encourages Patriot Element members to enter public service through a new political party with no affiliation to any traditional party. Annals of the Element is the story of the struggle to restore sanity, honesty, justice, integrity, and above all, freedom for its law-abiding citizens. No branch of the government is immune from being targeted, The Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches are all in the crosshairs of reform. Throughout its history, Congress has traditionally feathered its own nests instead of considering what is best for the country. “Bull” Caruthers sets out to inject integrity back into the entity that produces the laws all majority came from the ranks of former Armed Forces personnel and the Patriot Element. Annals of the Element is the third book of the Brothers Lost trilogy. In the first book, the founders, identical twins sold illegally at birth, eventually locate each other and their heritage. With the help of a former Navel SEAL turned professional surfer and his cadre of Special Forces veterans, they uncover and dismantle a rogue Army drug cartel and transfer millions into their own private offshore bank account. The sequel, The Patriot Element is the story of how the twins form the Patriot Element. The new team tackles a ruthless kidnapper and his gang with deadly results. That mission attracts the attention of Senator “Bull” Caruthers, who turns to the Element when his only son is also kidnapped. Caruthers chooses to ignore traditional law enforcement because negative publicity would harm his chances of ascending to the office of the President of the United States. The covert operation to rescue the ten year-old is a success and prompts the Senator to include the Patriot Element members in his plans to revamp how America and its frustrated citizens is governed.