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What Lurks Below
By Donald Firesmith
Hell Holes, Book 1
Publisher: Magic Wand Press
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Genre: Science
Fiction/Apocalyptic
Length: 162 Pages
ISBN: 978-1515068075
ASIN: B012IUE14U
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About the book:
It’s August in Alaska, and
geology professor Jack Oswald prepares for the new school year. But when
hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north
of the Arctic Circle, Jack receives an unexpected phone call. An oil company
exec hires Jack to investigate, and he picks his climatologist wife and two of
their graduate students as his team.
Uncharacteristically, Jack
also lets Aileen O’Shannon, a bewitchingly beautiful young photojournalist,
talk him into coming along as their photographer.
When they arrive in the
remote oil town of Deadhorse, the exec and a biologist to protect them from
wild animals join the team. Their task: to assess the risk of more holes
opening under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the wells and pipelines that feed
it. But they discover a far worse danger lurks below. When it emerges, it
threatens to shatter Jack’s unshakable faith in science. And destroy us all…
EXCERPTMy phone rang. Angie paused so that I could take the call. It was from Kevin Kowalski, an ExxonMobil manager for whom I’d occasionally worked as a consultant.“Dr. Oswald,” he said when I answered. “Thank God, I got you. We have a big problem, and I need you up here right away.”“What kind of a problem?” I asked, putting him on speakerphone so the others could hear. “Classes are about to start and I need to…”“Forget the classes,” Kowalski interrupted. “We have a disaster in the making up here. You know those huge holes that opened last year in northern Siberia?”“Sure,” I replied. “They’re probably just big sinkholes caused by the melting of subsurface ice or the melting of very large pingos.”“Huh? What’s a pingo?” Kowalski asked. To Kowalski, surface features were merely something that made life difficult when drilling wells and piping oil.“Pingos,” I replied, “are large conical hills of ice covered with a relatively thin layer of dirt. Anyway, what about the sinkholes? Are you telling me we’ve got one up on the North Slope?”“Damned straight,” Kowalski answered angrily. “In the last twenty-four hours, we’ve spotted over two dozen, and several have opened up near our oil wells. There’s one close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline down near Pump Station 2, and I don’t have to tell you the hell there’ll be to pay if another one opens up under the pipeline. We’re facing a financial and environmental disaster, and I need you up in Deadhorse ASAP. How soon can you put a team together? We need to know what’s causing them and how likely it is that one will open under our facilities.”
Praise Quotes
“I enjoyed my time in
Firesmith’s world. I did not want to leave. I really got a kick out of it, and
would happily come back for more. Recommended.” - MJ Kobernus, author of The
Guardian: Blood in the Sand
“This book rocks.” - Barton
Paul Levenson, author of Dark Gods of Alter Telluria
“a quick, enjoyable read.
Full of action and fraught with danger” - Dave Robertson, author of Strange
Hunting, Strange Hunting II, and The Brave and The Dead
“The book is an easy and
quick read and an action-filled one that you’ll imagine as a TV series or a
movie with no difficulty.” - Olga Núñez Miret, author of Escaping Psychiatry
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
A computer geek by day, Donald
Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US
Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he
has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and
system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can
possibly remember. He is also proud to have been named a Distinguished Engineer
by the Association of Computing Machinery, although his pride is tempered
somewhat worrying whether the term “distinguished” makes him sound more like a
graybeard academic rather than an active engineer whose beard is still more red
than gray.
By night and on weekends, his
alter ego writes modern paranormal fantasy, apocalyptic science fiction, action
and adventure novels and relaxes by handcrafting magic wands from various
magical woods and mystical gemstones. His first foray into fiction is the book
Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore written under the pen name Wolfrick
Ignatius Feuerschmied. He lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky,
his son Dane, and varying numbers of dogs, cats, and birds.
Links:
Website: http://donaldfiresmith.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DonFiresmith
Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1290902.Donald_G_Firesmith
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