Military Thriller Posits Path to “Politically Correct” the Country’s Direction

Politically Correct

How do you change the course of a nation run by an elite ruling class with complete control over government, media and much of the world’s affairs? The answer, according to Kurt M. DiClementi’s thriller, Politically Corrected (Good Shepherd Press), is simple: eliminate the tyrants and their complicit institutions and let the “silent majority” take back the country. But what it takes to achieve such ends is so complex, it requires the strategic and tactical prowess of the best of the best, not to mention determination and a certain measure of luck.

Politically Corrected is the incendiary tale of former SEAL Team Master Chief Salvino Scorzoletti whose rogue actions in South Asia took down a clandestine human-trafficking scheme called Operation Lotus, which sold impoverished children into sex slavery under the command of America’s own Office of Naval Intelligence (NOI). And while Scorzoletti (or “Scorzo” for short) managed to get away with little else than an abrogated military record, years later some high-ranking government officials won’t let him just fade into a life of anonymity.

You see, the NOI operation was a source of funding for black ops across the world, and Scorzo had diverted these funds as part of his takedown. NOI head Richard Pierpont and ATF SAC Gary Bickens think they can grab their share of the booty by ambushing Scorzo’s home on a trumped-up weapons charge. What Pierpont and Bickens fail to account for, however, is the lethal resistance they will encounter, or that their actions will spur Scorzo to finish the job he started — taking out not only those who had profited from Operation Lotus, but also the many institutions leading the country down the path of corruption, depravity and radical left-wing extremism.

As formidable an adversary as Scorzo is, he cannot do it without help, and so he enlists the aid of his former comrade-in-arms, Steven Philster, ops planner extraordinaire. Together, they assemble a team of ex-military experts in many fields, including a computer hacking genius, a medical doctor, a Muslim arms dealer with ties to Islamic fundamentalist militias, and more. They dub the core members of their group the Nemesis Nine and begin the long, arduous process of battle readiness, which requires not only grueling training, but acquiring enough medical supplies and munitions to carry out their plans.

They pull off a series of heists, each more daring than the last, working their way up from pharmaceuticals to munitions to cold, hard cash from Federal Reserve branches. Along the way, they use misdirection to throw the Feds off their case and play one alphabet agency against the other in a game of deadly chess. The proceeds after costs of operation are funneled into charities that help the poor and disadvantaged in a sort of modern Robin Hood wealth-redistribution plan not very different from the manner in which Scorzo had long ago disposed of Operation Lotus’s ill-gotten gains. 

As the actions of Scorzo’s team escalate in deadly force, the elite-run mainstream media and PR-savvy FBI work hard to paint them as domestic terrorists, but a growing number of Americans begin to view them as quite the opposite — patriot heroes. But “Machine Gun Scorzo and the Nemesis Nine” are just getting warmed up. The aforementioned computer hacker, Jerry Alvarez, happens to know how to break into the missile launch programs of Naval ships and submarines, which comes in handy if you want to take out not only individuals but whole institutions on the way to “politically correcting” the country. 

Career politicians, elite puppetmasters, corrupt intelligence agencies and communists posing as social-justice warriors be warned: you are in the crosshairs of DiClementi’s novel, which takes to task such individuals as “Senator Lacey Nervosi,” Congresswomen “Nadine Lakes” and “Osira Ilhar” and “President Styles Hiding,” billionaires “Mel Bates” and “Jurgen Morros,” not to mention the organizations “CLM” and “AntiCap” — all of which sound vaguely familiar, come to think of it. 

The author indicates that he wrote the novel “to challenge the notion that political solutions can affect a change in the hearts of those who have grown incorrigibly evil through amassing exorbitant amounts of wealth and power and ruthlessly subjugating others to their tyranny.” Indeed, fans of conservative-leaning military action thrillers will find much fodder for entertainment among these pages and a satisfying, if not literally “explosive” conclusion to the whole shebang.