Action Thriller
Cover art by Pat Evans
Ebook or print; 400 pages
What would happen if energy
suddenly became free, clean and inexhaustible? The answers may be surprising.
It speaks to our wistful sense of escapism from the crushing effects of
environmental catastrophe and the inevitability of the economic status quo with
a revolutionary ‘magic pill’, but is it really worth it?
Excerpt:
A
shadow darted over them, across the road, and shot out onto the lake: a
helicopter, a very low helicopter. It came into view for a second through the
low, narrow windshield. Their field of vision was too restricted to see the
chopper when above them, but they could hear its shrill turbojet engines whistle
and the distinctive clapping from the rotor blades. It flew ahead on a
straightaway, then spun a hundred and eighty degrees facing them, the menacing
rotor disc angled their way as they raced forward. It hovered only a few feet
off the ground. Car and copter moved directly at each other with closing speeds
in excess of a hundred mph. Richard pumped the brakes, swerved left, right and
left again.
They dodged the helicopter, but clearly saw a man aiming a rifle leaning out the
left door. Star-patterned sparks erupted from the muzzle. Bullets tore the
road’s shoulder, rapidly spewing gravel in a straight line. It was an automatic
weapon, Richard realized, and he reopened the throttle and dumped the high
octane gasoline into the fuel system. Again, Enzo Ferrari’s creation answered
without hesitation, bolting them under the helicopter. Ninety seconds later at
that speed, they had reached the outskirts of Mandello del Lario, a modest sized
town, but with enough activity and population that their pursuing goblins
disappeared.
“My
God, they tried to kill us!” Dorothy panted.
Richard, ice cool, turned slightly to her, “It appears so.”
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