Product Description
When a Russian Mafiya-led group gets control of a new form of water, the world's water supply - and mankind - must face its greatest challenge.
Water in its natural state is strange, it can take the form of ice, water or steam. But there is nothing natural about this new 'still water' that destroys any life it touches!
Where does it come from? Is it from climate change melting the Arctic ice, from Russian pollution and nuclear waste, or has it crashed here to Earth from elsewhere?
The Brotherhood reaches right into the Russian military, scientific and political corridors of power to use this new water to settle old scores, to eliminate rivals, to extort the powerhouse economies of India and China that have supplanted Russia's resurgent superpower status.
In a truly global conflict they launch attacks at Kazakhstan, from the banks of the Congo, along the Danube, beside the Mekong and at the ex-Soviet Arctic nuclear test-site islands.
The battle is joined to control this still water, to stop the extortion and to ensure the deadly stuff does not enter the water cycle!
Water in its natural state is strange, it can take the form of ice, water or steam. But there is nothing natural about this new 'still water' that destroys any life it touches!
Where does it come from? Is it from climate change melting the Arctic ice, from Russian pollution and nuclear waste, or has it crashed here to Earth from elsewhere?
The Brotherhood reaches right into the Russian military, scientific and political corridors of power to use this new water to settle old scores, to eliminate rivals, to extort the powerhouse economies of India and China that have supplanted Russia's resurgent superpower status.
In a truly global conflict they launch attacks at Kazakhstan, from the banks of the Congo, along the Danube, beside the Mekong and at the ex-Soviet Arctic nuclear test-site islands.
The battle is joined to control this still water, to stop the extortion and to ensure the deadly stuff does not enter the water cycle!
From the Author
`Still Water' is my first published novel. I am still, like the book's hero Guy, very excited by technology and the `weird' sciences and I am of course an early-adopter of any new boys' toys.
Bob said, "The inspiration for this first novel came from my love of many writers like John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke - each often simply tweaked one scientific fact but then bewildered and entertained us when considering how this one simple change might lead to major global, and in some cases galactic, consequences."
`Still Water's' main protagonists will feature again soon in a sequel `Gene Genie' when Guy Quartermain is challenged by an American cult religion that is not content to wait for its prophecies to unfold, turning to genetic engineering to hasten things along.
