The Cabal Question

A provocative psychological thriller follows a former professor of history turned historical revisionist whose life fractures after a friend’s desperate outburst thrusts him into the JQ. A former academic, he now sifts through the past’s buried truths and official history's lies, moving from Europe’s storied cities to America’s urban sprawl and the idyllic Amish and Mennonite farmlands of South-Central Pennsylvania. In a dystopia where surveillance is unrelenting and historiography bows to power, he partners with an enigmatic and knowing Dutch translator and a steadfast ex-occultist turned Christian nationalist to trace the strands of the cabal's reach. Each revelation pulls him deeper into a maze of danger and discovery.Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., a former NYU Professor turned fierce cultural critic, builds a narrative that marries intellectual depth with relentless suspense. Drawing on historical revisionism and thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, George Orwell, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Cabal Question explores the workings of propaganda, the ethics of resistance, and the contested domain of historical truth. Through safe houses, border crossings, and secretive talks in rural refuges, the story wrestles with the forces—be they a hidden elite, a crafted narrative, or the mind’s own distortions—that mold the present. The revisionist’s vision, both asset and peril, propels a clash with the state and his own legacy. Rectenwald’s incisive prose delivers a stark reflection on identity, faith, and the cost of forbidden knowledge. The saga challenges official narratives, disorienting the reader, and prompting questions about what’s true in the stories that shape the landscape of the reader’s mind. Read more