| FADE IN: A cynical writer named Marty, his | | | | more powerful than others. When they are linked |
| psychic wife Leela, and Marty's best friend, | | | | together via the ley lines, they can produce |
| Hacker, are having a serious meeting on the | | | | enough wattage to generate a brief but powerful |
| couple's front deck at their home in Sedona. | | | | electronic shockwave that will paralyze anything |
| Hacker, true to his name, is a computer genius | | | | electrical or mechanical. |
| and a brilliant techie. A serious crisis is brewing | | | | "In a fraction of a second, all of China will be |
| which could affect the global economy. | | | | brought to its knees and set back at least 200 |
| "Lemme get this straight," says Hacker to Leela. | | | | years. That's what these secret society guys told |
| "Marty ran it down to me, but I figured him or | | | | me on the phone." |
| you must have a glitch in your software." Leela | | | | Hacker nods his head knowingly. "I've heard of |
| smiles thinly. | | | | this pulse, this EMP thing. It's called an E-bomb. |
| "So these guys out in Page Springs are going to | | | | The U.S. government has been all over this for |
| bring down China by using an electromagnetic | | | | years. The research is very secret. The Pentagon |
| pulse," continues Hacker, "which by the way is | | | | has been testing their own E-bomb since 9/11. |
| usually caused by a nuclear bomb explosion. | | | | Now they're afraid Iran is going to hit us with an |
| Except there won't be a nuclear explosion, right? | | | | E-bomb-but using a nuclear weapon, not the |
| They'll be using vortex power and ley lines? Did I | | | | energy vortexes!" He says this with more than a |
| get that right?" | | | | hint of sarcasm and irony. |
| Leela takes a deep breath and fixes him with her | | | | Leela moves her chair closer to Hacker's until |
| twin green rays. "That's right. And there's more. | | | | they are almost nose to nose. "Hacker, darling, |
| These people are not just some local crackpot | | | | this is not a joke. These people told me they |
| organization. They are part of a secret society, | | | | have already wired the major vortexes between |
| something like the Illuminati and the Freemasons. | | | | here and Asia by probing deep in the earth with |
| They are all over the world. They are well | | | | some kind of microwave device. They are |
| organized and run by rogue scientists and | | | | already online with energy transmissions using the |
| engineers and financed by bankers and billionaires. | | | | ley lines as electrical cables." |
| They are also extremely serious about this. Their | | | | Thus does Leela get caught up in a plot at once |
| idea is to save the last superpower -- the good | | | | dangerous to her life and threatening to the |
| old USA -- for capitalism." | | | | security of Planet Earth. Book 1 of this sci-fi |
| "And just how do they intend to harness the | | | | trilogy is set against a backdrop of international |
| awesome power of the world's vortexes, | | | | intrigue, political corruption and domestic tensions. |
| assuming that is even possible?" | | | | The story moves from the psychic hotbed of |
| "It is possible. For one thing, I accessed a lot of | | | | Sedona to the teeming streets of India to the |
| this information when I was in the | | | | mysterious energies of Glastonbury to the top of |
| trans-dimensional portal. The vortexes are | | | | a mystical mountain in Tibet. |
| tremendously powerful generating stations, some | | | | |