Not randomly, but by careful design, I set my new jihad thriller novel, A Summons To Perdition, in Dearborn, Michigan. As the following link to a real-life news report at Vlad Tepes’ site will show you, I wasn’t kidding in my book about what’s coming down the pike for America.
http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=49990
For a look beyond that, The Canal takes you forty years into the future. It’s not a pretty picture.