The decade is the turbulent 1960s.

Thaddeus Johnson has just been set on a fateful path, which will eventually lead him and his cohorts deep into the bowels of the nation's capital.

Johnson's racism-laden upbringing, subsequent rage, chance meetings and arguably faulty decisions provide the backdrop for the soon-to-be-released book from Farrell's own John Paul Brandt titled "Target America: Attack on Tyranny."

Brandt, 46, says he began writing "Target" in 2000, and the story took him a year and a half to write.

The self-described "renaissance man" rendered his 285-page novel a "historical fiction," because he depicts fictitious events that he said are based in part on real characters and actual occurrences.

Brandt paints Johnson as a "misguided patriot that goes over the edge."