Publication date: October 15th, 2021
Synopsis:
Sixty-six million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid crashed into the Yucatan peninsula. Its heat and dust killed the dinosaurs and most other species on the planet.
Based on newly generated NASA measurements and a unique theory, a Ph.D. geology student concludes the Chicxulub asteroid created a fortune in hidden diamonds. When she discovers her business partner and financier is of questionable character, she escapes to Canada to plan an expedition to mine the stones.
Gary Levin arrives in the same Canadian village to mourn the loss of his wife, senselessly murdered during a white supremacist shooting. He soon finds a wounded golden retriever and a flash drive of unknown origin.
Puzzled by information on the flash drive, Levin learns the data could guide mining the fortune in diamonds from Mexico's Yucatan cenotes (underground water channels). Although there is danger diving/mining the waters and evidence of opposition plotting their demise, the lure of the diamonds and the opulence they represent are too much to resist.
Levin and his companions crisscross the globe in a race to obtain the diamonds before the spurned financier and an approaching hurricane can disrupt their efforts.
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Excerpt
When the plane landed, only Don knew the location of the treasure. This was to help insulate the rest of the team. Before they exited the terminal, a customs officer appeared.
He was a large man with a thin brown mustache. He approached Don.
"Okay, my compadre, what are you smuggling into the territory this time?" Don smiled.
"Sorry to disappoint, but muddy clothes and wet camping equipment from Mexican jungles are all I can offer you."
"I expect you to hide more exotic fare than that," the official replied.
"Well, feel free to have at it," Don said.
The man went through the group's luggage. Finding nothing, he turned to the scuba gear.
"Is there any way I can get into these tanks?" he asked Don.
"I guess you'd have to break them open," Don replied. "I've been smuggling oxygen into the territory for many years. The problem is as soon as you open a tank, the contents rush into the atmosphere and disappear."
"I get the point," the inspector replied. "Did you have a nice flight?"
"You know, nothing is better than returning to our island."
"Agreed, my friend. See you next time."
Alan L. Moss is a unique and emerging voice in the thriller genre. His novels spin sophisticated tales of conspiracy, love, sex, and subterfuge.
In his latest work, The Samoa Seduction, two strong willed individuals are haunted by their love for one another while manipulated by a deadly conspiracy.
Alan's writing draws upon Ph.D. research capabilities and many years in Washington, D.C. as a federal Chief Economist, Congressional Fellow, and Adjunct Instructor at the University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center. In 2002 he put his government career aside and moved to the Jersey Shore to pursue his writing.
He has penned six published books, four novels and two nonfiction works. After years of politics and bureaucracy. Alan has found the freedom of writing fiction an intoxicating and satisfying calling.
Distinguished features of Alan's novels are involvement with significant national and international issues and spectacular locations. His new novel, The Samoa Seduction (October 2015 by A-Argus Books/W & B Publishers) is an eye opening thriller that combines the action of a drug company conspiracy, industry efforts to suppress wages, and government corruption with murder and a steamy affair. Settings include Samoa's lush scenery, the Central Canterbury Plains of New Zealand's south island, a resort on Hawaii's Molokai Island, the TranzAlpine Railroad, and tuna fishing vessels on the Tasman Sea.
Alan's previous work on The Insidious Deception Saga chronicles how a pre-med student and brilliant college professor become entangled in conspiracies hatched by al Qaeda and a ruthless CEO. The two resulting novels include: Insidious Deception (Whiskey Creek Press 2013), and the sequel, Surviving the Endgame (Whiskey Creek Press 2014), in which a presidential election becomes a deadly contest between the international conspirators and those seeking their destruction. Rob Taylor, the series' protagonist, finds the love of his life and struggles to protect her from the conspiracy's violent tentacles.
Turning to Alan's nonfiction work, in May 2008 Praeger Publishing released Selling-Out America's Democracy. The book shows how special interests, through their lobbyists and the U.S. system of campaign financing, have denied a majority of the American population the policies they seek and have led the nation into a period of decline. The book includes telling interviews of Washington insiders and a four-part plan to restore the U.S. democracy. Copies are available on Amazon and other web book sites.
Alan is a member of the Authors Guild International Thriller Writers, and the American Political Science Association.
For more information about Alan and his writing, see his website.
See Alan's BLOG columns at www.alanlmossmyview.com.
