William Blundell

Broschiertes Buch

Wind Shadow: Volume 1

Beschreibung

On a remote indian reservation near the Canadian border, an ancient tribal clan has guarded for time out of mind a secret that has become the most valuable thing in the world--an energy source of unimagined richness. In a near future when overdevelopment and population growth have driven an energy-starved planet back into a second Age of Coal, alarmed American researchers using a new supercomputer discover clear signs that the thousands of power plants burning coal now are killing people, for reasons unknown. Informed by a spy, this is all that the shadowy criminal syndicate known as Black Dragon needs to hear. It moves to seize effective control of the only feasible energy alternative still available--nuclear fuels, long abandoned as a civilian power source after a string of horrific accidents. In this international crime thriller, Kaliman, the lethal chief operative of Black Dragon and the warped creature of its secret founder and head, Henry Wu Lin, the richest man in Asia, together conduct a hidden but violent struggle with the Americans, led by President Jacob Weldon Hammer, for this control--not yet knowing that success or failure for either side depends entirely on a single lode of uranium with characteristics never seen before, a treasure guarded by a handful of old men whose religion forbids them any conventional weapons to guard it with. But Kaliman and Wu Lin discover that the clan and Massine, its leader, have other resources to draw upon...

Autor

Bill Blundell is a prize-winning writer and author who has been a reporter, senior editor, southwestern regional news chief, and national correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His awards include honors from the trustees of Columbia University for distinguished metropolitan coverage in New York; the Scripps Gold Medal for public service for exposure of the massive Equity Funding insurance scandal; honors as winner of the feature writing award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; and inclusion of an essay in reprints of Houghton-Mifflin's 'Best Of American writing' annual. He is the author of 'The Art and Craft of Feature Writing' and has worked with scores of newspaper and magazine staffs in the U.S., Canada, and Taiwan on improving their writing. He lives and works on the central coast of California. This is his first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 6mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781543901917
• ISBN-10: 1543901913
• Artikelnr.: 52529435