Alan N. Levy

Author of Political Thrillers

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Jul 22, 2019, 9:32 PM

Goodbye to our friend and colleague, Alan N. Levy

This article was written by Steven S. Drachman, with contributions from Alan Levy’s wife, Helene Levy. * * * Our friend and colleague, Alan N. Levy, has died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 76, on July 14, while returning...

Jun 30, 2019, 8:35 AM

An American’s Perspective: All Fiction Aside, the Iranian Threat is Quite Real

Intelligence communities of all nations have grand, and often bizarre, plans to destabilize and influence their enemies. Several years ago, I read a fascinating novel entitled, Red Star Rogue. It’s based on the supposedly factual event in 1968 of a...

Jun 24, 2019, 7:40 AM

An American’s Perspective: Let’s Build New Weapons, But Not Forget about Iran

I attended the University of Illinois before most of you were born. In our most glorious season, the one in 1964, we still lost to Ohio State 26 to zip, a tradition carried into more current Illini seasons, but in...

Jun 6, 2019, 5:42 PM

An American’s Perspective: Germany Attends D-Day Memorial Services

From AP News on June 6, 2019 … “Queen Elizabeth II is set to join British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders for a ceremony on the southern coast of England that will start two days of commemorations...

May 26, 2019, 11:54 AM

It’s Time for a Tactical Strike on Iran: President Trump, Act Alone

A wonderful old movie from the 1970s comes to mind, entitled, “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.” It’s about a bunch of happy-go-lucky miscreants but amazingly talented players in the Negro Baseball League of the 1920s starring...

May 11, 2019, 4:56 PM

An American’s Perspective: Will We Allow Our Mothers to Weep?

Perhaps I feel this way since it’s Mother’s Day here in the U.S. Because I’m thinking about the phrase in the presidential Oath of Office that has the words, “to preserve and protect” in it. Taken in the broadest sense,...

May 7, 2019, 2:34 PM

An American’s Perspective: The Iran/North Korean Nuclear Playbook

I drive a Kia Soul. Not because it’s fast or fancy, and not because I can rev the engine and attract high school girls. I’m 76 years old, and I drive that car because it’s incredibly reliable. And it was conceived and...

May 3, 2019, 6:57 PM

An American’s Perspective: The Horrific Price of Ignoring the Holocaust

I was writing this a couple of weeks ago, well before the recent shootings at a synagogue in San Diego. That hate crime underscores everything I’m going to state here. Sunday, January 27th, 2019 was Holocaust Remembrance Day, and these...

Apr 20, 2019, 9:10 PM

An American’s Perspective: The Devastating Fire at Notre Dame

I’m a Jew, and yet I feel an immense sense of loss caused by the damaging fire at Notre Dame in Paris. And if you also don’t feel a personal sense of loss, if you don’t have a sense that...

Apr 7, 2019, 3:00 PM

An American’s Perspective: Iran to Label U.S. Military Personnel Terrorists

I had to Google this to get it right … From “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.” "’Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please,’ said Brer Rabbit. ‘Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar...

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About Me

American author. My latest novel is entitled, "The Tenth Plague", release date to be September 15, 2019 by Chickadee Prince Books in Brooklyn, N.Y. It is set in the year 2028, Iran has nuclear weapons and Mossad is poised to eliminate the threat. According to Kirkus Reviews, the "prose is crisp" and some scenes are "breathtaking." Hope you read it, and what I predict in the novel never happens. Seventy-six years old with a passion for writing that seems to keep me young. BS in Mathematics and Engineering Physics, MS in Statistics, University of Illinois. Columnist for Audere Magazine, an online publication, Zionist, staunch supporter of Israel, and I write to awaken people to the perils of failing to learn the lessons of history.

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