President Gregory McCormick faces an Omega Crisis: the threat of a nuclear detonation on U.S. soil, which would push the world toward global thermonuclear war. He knows that Al-Qaeda, Russia, and North Korea are all involved--but who is the prime mover? And can they be stopped before it's too late? As U.S. intelligence searches for answers, McCormick turns to an old friend outside of the halls of government for advice.
Dr. Amos Blund, brilliant doctor, inventor and scientist, is on the verge of a breakthrough not even he can fully comprehend. What had begun as research into new medical imaging techniques has become... something else. When McCormick calls and confides in Blund, Blund quickly becomes convinced that a nuclear detonation is unavoidable. He interrupts his research to get his family to safety, angering friends and neighbors left behind when he travels to a hidden retreat.
As McCormick and Blund work together to prevent nuclear war, they realize that Blund's research might hold the key to saving the human race . . .
Wilde, Steven E.: - I grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor's degree in engineering. My wife, Marilyn, and I have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Together we enjoy camping, hiking, travel, and get-togethers with extended family. In my quiet time, I enjoy gardening, genealogy, emergency preparedness, and now, writing. I love to read, and enjoy most genres, particularly murder mysteries and science fiction. My work as a project manager has given me exposure to multiple industries and specialties, including electric utilities, nuclear power plant construction, water management, global mining, and aerospace. Each of those experiences contributed to my interest in, and the broad perspective needed to write about, the potential effects of global thermonuclear war on the infrastructure and people of the world. The inspiration for this series came to me many years ago. The original story, about a young engineer trapped by a futuristic technology on a dying world, was primarily science fiction. When I began writing the story, I realized that I wanted to tell the back-story-how nuclear war and scientific discover led up to this crisis in the engineer's life-and that I now had the life experiences that would help fill in the details. During my first career, as a project manager, a lot of my work consisted of technical writing, including two technical publications for the Department of Defense (DoD) on my work with graphite composite materials in the construction of prototype components for military hardware. Now in my second career, as a fiction writer, this is my first publication of creative writing, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the research, writing, reviews and interaction with reviewers, my editor and artists in the preparation of the publication. Please see my website, www.stevenewilde.com, for more information about the story, the characters, the key locations, objects and concepts, the organizations and groups, and the facts in the fiction.
