Wednesday, March 23, 2011

NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS 01 - DIABLO CANYON EXCURSION

Watching the  tragedy unfold in Japan, it occurred to me that I would be remiss not to call attention to my own two writings on the subject.
The first, was my first novel. Unpublished, it has already had two titles. I plan to give this story another good scrub before releasing it at  some distant time. It centers around a cold-blooded murderer y su conjuntos, who flee to refuge in La Paz, Baja California Sud. One of these conjuntos has just been fired from his Silicon Valley job and signed up to work at a nuclear reactor in Arizona. On hearing on the television about a disaster at the power plant, he decides to throw in with the murderer for a cut of the diamonds. The farther they travel south of the border, the less significant nuclear reactors become as it is replace by the joys of living.
The second, my other nuclear novel, has just been released under the name 'Pfeiffer.' It includes Mexico, Mexicans, and smuggling. Nevertheless the story is about a manhunt for three men who abduct a Sacramento insider from his hideaway at Nepenthes. I chose to make his threatened expose of Sacramento politics in general, and the proposed building of a nuclear plant on the Big Sur peninsula. Although drugs, sex, and four-letter words may occur in the story; the dominant theme in the book is violence--in almost every chapter and a wide variety of forms. If you don't enjoy reading about giant talons piercing a beating heart, hooves trampling testicles, wilderness wildfires frying poison oak, or people caught in snarled traffic while their car radios crackle from the radioactive fog bank.
'Pfeiffer' -- available as a Kindle book at Amazon.com.