Abyss

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For Laurie, as always, and for Tom Doherty, who provided the genesis, and Bob Gleason, who helped shape the story

Details about methods and capabilities of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Rapid Response Teams have been altered. The author does not want this book to become a blueprint for nuclear terrorism.

Anne Marie Marinaccio is the name of a real person, but she in no way is connected with the business deals described in this novel, which are completely fictitious products of the author’s imagination.

Of course for a long time our central dilemma hasn’t been humanity’s survival. Since the advent of agriculture, people have striven for advancement; huts instead of caves, horses to help with plowing and transportation — particularly after the wheel and axle were invented — and then the internal combustion engine and electricity, but this brought us up against the need for oil. And the explosion began. In a very real way, however, our quest for the good life could well push us back to the horse-and-buggy days — if not extinction itself — given the greenhouse effects generated by the combustion of petrochemicals. In the race between climatic destruction and fossil fuel depletion, the outcome will be apocalyptic no matter which side of the coin comes up. Still the solution has always been around us. In the major sea currents, in the endless winds that roam the land, and in sunshine from the sky. The battle lines are being drawn for what could be the largest, most important struggle in human history.

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