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Dead Energy: The Alex Cave Series Book 1 Edition 2 (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Global oil supplies suddenly vanish and society starts to crumble in this science fiction mystery.

When his wife was murdered during a mission, Alex Cave quit the CIA for a less stressful life as a geophysics instructor at a small college in Montana. At least, that was his plan.

While sailing the waters of Puget Sound, Alex hears a Mayday call from an oil tanker, and sees the ship suddenly engulfed in neon blue light for a moment. It appears to be intact, so he goes to see what happened, and discovers there is no crew, and 80,000 tons of crude oil has vanished without a race.

The reverend Menno Simons, an environmental fanatic, leads his followers on a crusade to rid the world of crude oil, and his disciples carry innocuous vials of powdered crystals to oil-rich countries.

The Alaska pipeline and west coast refineries are suddenly empty, and civilization descends into chaos when the lack of fuel keeps basic necessities from reaching the inner cities, pitting human against human in a desperate attempt to survive the madness spreading across the planet. Alex’s only clue is the crystal, which, under a microscope, appears to be alive!

A fantastic ride, with thrilling scenarios, exhilarating situations, and nail-biting suspense by this best-selling and award-winning author.

How does Alex stop Menno before civilization reaches total collapse?

Find out by grabbing your copy now!
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    The Alex Cave Series
  2. Lunghezza stampa
    327 pagine
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    Inglese
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  5. Data di pubblicazione
    21 gennaio 2014
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    488 KB
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James M. Corkill is a Veteran and retired Federal Firefighter from Washington State, USA. He was an electronic technician and studied mechanical engineering before eventually becoming a firefighter and retiring. He began writing in 1997, and was fortunate to meet a famous horror writer named Hugh B. Cave, who became his mentor. In 2002, he self-published a dozen copies of Dead Energy, just so his wife could see his book before she was taken by cancer. When his soul mate was gone, he stopped writing and began drinking heavily until 2013, when he met a stranger who recognized his name and had enjoyed an old copy of Dead Energy. When the stranger encouraged him to start writing again, he realized this chance meeting was just what he needed to hear at the right moment, and he quit drinking and began the rewrite of Dead Energy into The Alex Cave Series. He is now an award-winning author. His favorite television programs are the Science, History, and Discovery Channels. He subscribes to several science magazines, and he does extensive research for each of his stories to keep them as accurate and believable as possible.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CB0OXCI
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 327 pagine
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5,0 su 5 stelle Dead Energy - Alex Cave Series #1
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 21 ottobre 2023
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Alex Cave is an ex-CIA agent and is a university professor of geophysics at a small college in Montana. A huge oil tanker with no crew disappears off the coast of Puget Sound leaving only sea water. Environmental Activist Reverend Menno Simmons wants to transform oil into new clean and powerful energy source and doesn’t care about depleting the world’s supply of raw crude oil. The Alaska pipeline and west coast refineries grow empty and people in cities begin to panic when they cannot get any basic supplies due to the oil crisis. With the help of National Security Director Martin Donner, oil specialist Crista and Alex’s friend Bull their investigation leads Alex to a spacecraft at Groom Lake and the only clue that he has is a dollar-size crystal which seems to be alive. I really enjoyed this fantastic science fiction thriller novel.
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Fritzmom
5,0 su 5 stelle Good work
Recensito in Canada il 14 gennaio 2018
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Another great read. Mix of action, adventure, sci-fi. I can say that this was another novel that once I started, I had a hard time putting down.

I have actually binge-read the first 3 in the Alex Cave series and am very impressed with Mr Corkill's work.

This was most definitely a stand-alone novel but segued into the next novel, 'Cold Energy', very smoothly.

Editing was well done, the characters were developed, and the story kept my interest.

I would certainly recommend this novel.
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E. Briggs
5,0 su 5 stelle Enjoyable read
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 11 dicembre 2016
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A very inventive and intriguing story. Good characters. I look forward to reading more by this author.
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Betababe
4,0 su 5 stelle How Fast Can Society Disintegrate?
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 27 giugno 2017
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I seem to read in clumps: first a few westerns, then a couple of horror stories (and I HATE horror stories but sometimes they are so well done . . .), a pair of romances, a cozy mystery or three, and now I'm in a techno-thriller phase. Of course, to make it more interesting, these days most authors ignore genre and just write the SciFi/Romance/Dystopian Western Thriller of their choices. Aptly narrated by Paul J. McSorley (AUDIO), the story bounces from Boseman, Montana, to Alaska, to Texas, Idaho and Nevada. (Author James M. Corkill apologizes if your state isn't mentioned and may endeavor to include it in his next literary offering.) <-- I *SO* made that up =o]

With the bulk of those states being in the west, we'll leave on the Western tag.

Next, the premise--oil supplies are being hijacked and western--no, GLOBAL!--civilization is crumbling fast as pack mentality sets in. Oh, yeah, Dystopian! Romance? Well we have a dead wife and not one but TWO lovely ladies vying for the attention of the hero. In mixed-genre, however, no promises of HEA (Happily Ever After). And that brings us to Science Fiction. Nevada. Need I say more?

Oh, almost forgot the original tag--Techno Thriller: he's an ex-CIA geologist. Note I left out Christian and Military. If I say Jim Jones and Survivalist will you agree I should leave them out?

I strongly recommend you suspend your disbelief and jump into the vivid imagination of Mr. McCorkill for a romp with possible destiny.
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vanksed
4,0 su 5 stelle A sci-fi techno thriller
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 14 marzo 2014
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DEAD ENERGY - An Alex Cave Adventure
By James M. Corkill.

This book in my opinion is best described as a sci-fi techno thriller. But whatever else it is, this gripping story unfolds into a true science fiction yarn.

From the outset I set about reviewing the story… rather than making comments about the grammar or writing style. I will leave that to more qualified individuals.

A rich quasi-religious sect the Mennonite becomes pretentiously involved in dangerous environmental matters. The sect is led by Menno Simons a belligerent madman, who as the saga unfolds proves to be more than he originally seemed.

Using hitherto unknown technologies the sect makes a serious and very nearly successful attempt to eliminate the global supply of crude oil. Society quickly breaks down and in the oncoming struggle to survive the US fared worse than most. Small militia groups made up mostly of mercenaries and the worse criminal elements started to flourish and hold sway over their own geographical areas. One group in particular the Army of Survival (AOS) is featured in an interesting fall from grace where the egotistical and wicked were slowly replaced by the fanatical and evil. Murder and theft is commonplace, women are forced into prostitution, and children betray their families.

Through it all the protagonist Alex Cave remains true to his belief that society can be saved. Cave proved a likeable hero and a thoroughly believable character.

That takes us to the final chapters where the twist is what I think changed the story from a techno thriller into pure science fiction. I don’t want to go into this much because I have no wish to spoil the book by revealing the ending. Save to say, that I think at this point in the novel the writer dreadfully underplayed the main characters emotional response to the discovery of a vile creature who for whatever insane reasons had caused the almost total breakdown of society and the deaths of countless numbers of people. I would have liked a whirlpool emotion culminating in an unholy cry for revenge.

Even though the villain eventually paid the ultimate price for his diabolical crimes I felt his excuse that the need to save the planet by forcing it technologically backwards, introducing his new tyrannical government, and then in the long run offering a controlled source of new cleaner energy was in part accepted. I may be wrong but it seemed the characters were prepared to accept the argument… that the end justifies the means. The leading characters seemed to take the attitude that what’s done is done and that in these extreme circumstances natural justice should be suspended in favour of cooperation from the surviving villain.

That said, it all made for a very thought provoking story. I enjoyed the yarn and will definitely read other work by this talented storyteller.
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