While at Cornell University earning their PhD, physicists Heidi Zimmerman, Chris Toole, and Cameron Vaughn publish their ground-breaking theory, STANDSTILL-a process by which objects in a particle accelerator can be moved vast distances instantaneously-to less than rousing reviews. Two years later, Heidi and Chris are hired by a private lab to work on STANDSTILL as part of cutting-edge technology to repair satellites remotely from earth. After three years of tireless work and on the verge of success, the two watch anxiously as ominous visits from military personnel become more frequent. While searching for clues at the lab, they unwittingly uncover a hack in their systems, triggering alarms on two continents and thrusting them into the middle of a secret international conspiracy. Now on the run for their lives from agents of unknown organizations, they reach out to Cameron to help figure out what terrible purpose the shadowy group might have. Can they figure it out in time? Even if they do, will anyone believe them before it is too late?
The author is the father of three boys & one girl; the husband of one wife; the fan of Frank Herbert, JRR Tolkien, David McCullough, Steven King, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, et al.; the enjoyer of crisp autumn days replete with the smell of fallen leaves, freshly-squeezed apple cider, meteor showers, newly zambonied ice rinks, strikethrough text in emails, tree-lined streets, and family vacations; the appreciator of finely-crafted timepieces, 18kt medium-nibbed fountain pens, well-maintained community golf courses, glass-front pre-amps with large blue watt meters, and open highways; the rememberer of Kodachrome film, three Mississippi rushes & all-time quarterbacks, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Saturday morning bowling leagues, amber computer monitors, and drive-in movie theaters; the contemplator of moving out to the sticks, buying an old VW microbus, getting a commercial drivers license, hiking to the top of Half Dome, visiting the Holy Land, and trying that new diet; the believer of old wives tales, that laughter is the best medicine, that time heals all wounds, that you are forgiven & judged by the way you forgive & judge, that there never will be another Mariano Rivera, that corn on the cob tastes different than corn off the cob, that my first three fantasy SNL team picks would be Phil Hartman, Eddie Murphy & Jan Hooks, that Han shot first, that Bavarian cream is far superior to custard in donuts, that Dick York was the best Darrin Stephens, that stepping on a crack has nothing whatsoever to do with breaking your mother's back, that there is no way a family of witches and wizards could be poor, that red sky at night--sailors delight, blue sky at night--day, that it cannot really be that poorly lit at CSI, that coupon is pronounced 'coo-pon' not 'Q-pon, ' that punctuation should be outside of quotation marks, that plastic grass is getting better but..., that since all current wordsmithing is merely the shortening or acronymization of current words or phrases it should now be called 'lettersmelting, ' that waiting for the lights to die down in a movie theater on a first date and then shouting 'NEVER TOUCH A BOY THERE!' is endearing, that urban dictionary always has at least one completely filthy meaning for every word or phrase in the English language, that the Beatles only had moderately-talented drummers, that ending a sentence or phrase with 'and, uh... yeah' will lead civilization to oblivion, and that 2,500 characters for the author's bio is not enou
