The Notice — Barry B. Longyear

Three months before the U.S. midterm elections, the people of Texas vote themselves a freeland and independent of the United States. To honor the father of freelands, Juan-Diego Aguilar, as well as the history Texas had as part of the union, the leaders of Texas Secession ask Aguilar to deliver to the U.S. government Texas' Notice of Separation. The CIA had tried three times to assassinate Aguilar, the White House is contemplating everything up to and including invasion supported by the use of nuclear weapons to keep Texas in the Union, and the last thing the party in power wants to see is the mail from Texas. iBlack Director Jerome Track's problem this time is how to keep everyone on both sides alive while at the same time sell the U.S. president on letting Texas go its own way. The Notice is the sixth book of Jerome Track's autobiography.