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CURRENT PROJECTS
THE GOD PROJECT
The world is running out of useable energy in the form of oil and natural gas, the supplies of which are rapidly dwindling, in the form of coal which pollutes the air we breathe leading toward a runaway greenhouse effect and nuclear fission, the by product of which will remain a horrific threat for more than 100,000 years.
Solar energy is vastly too inefficient with current technologies, as are wind farms, which depend completely on the capricious nature of weather.
But the solution is at hand in the world’s three great ocean currents-the Gulf Stream along the U.S. East Coast all the way to Europe, the Humboldt along the west coasts of South and North America and the Agulhas along the African continent.
A multi-trillion dollar, multi-national World Energy Needs (WEN) project is the result of a series of papers five years ago by Dr. Evelyn (Eve) Larsen in which she proposed placing giant water turbines in the three ocean currents, bringing the power they generate ashore on underwater cables and plugging them into the present day electrical grids, which would have to be greatly expanded as the project developed.
Two problems: The first are the powerful oil factions who want to put a stop to WEN for the simple reason they stand to loose trillions in revenues. They’ll do literally anything to stop the massive project. And most governments, especially the U.S. would be all but powerless to do anything about it. Without oil during the long transition period we would have trouble surviving.
The second is the new al-Quaeda that is at war with the world. The Islamic fundamentalists want to topple the present Saudi royal family, kick all foreigners out of the country and keep the oil revenues for the on-going jihad.
These groups are not above sabotage and murder. Their name for WEN is The God Project with Dr. Larsen the high priestess, because it tampers with God’s design for us. They maintain that within 100 years the earth will go into an ice age that may be deeper and colder than anything ever experienced. All life on the planet would be in mortal danger.
MUTINY!: The true events that inspired The Hunt For Red October - The Story that inspired Tom Clancy’s Blockbuster novel:
The Hunt For Red October, which will be my first non-fiction book, is due for publication by
Forge Books in May 2008.
 In the fall of 1975 most of the crew of the Soviet ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) ship the FFG
Storozhevoy mutinied. The captain was seized and confined below decks, and those officers and
men who did not want to participate were placed under lock and key.
The ringleader of the mutiny sent a message to Moscow telling the Brezhnev government that he
was taking the ship in order to give a message to the Soviet people that its government was corrupt
and needed to be changed.
Within hours after the Storozhevoy left his homeport of Riga in the middle of the night and sailed
into the Baltic Sea, Moscow ordered that he be hunted down and killed. The ship, the officers and
men--even those who opposed the mutiny--were all to be destroyed and the entire incident be
covered up, which very nearly happened except for the heroic efforts of a few officers who re-took
the ship after he was damaged and nearly sunk.
A couple of years later Tom Clancy came across an obscure report of the incident by a U.S. Navy
officer studying at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, which he fictionalized into the novel
The Hunt For Red October.
The ringleader of the mutiny was shot to death by the KGB, and all the officers and men were either
kicked out of the navy or demoted and put in dead end positions, their hard earned careers gone.
Writing a non-fiction account of the mutiny through the eyes of Senior Lieutenant Boris Gindin, one of the
officers who helped save the ship and the lives of his crew, and afterwards emigrated to the U.S.
was a natural extension of a career I’ve made chronicaling the Cold War in several dozen novels.
Except that truth is far more exciting than fiction.
UPDATE: Jan, 2008
Mutiny title has been changed to: Mutiny! The true events that inspired The Hunt For Red October.
New publication date - May 08.
BURNED, which is a stand alone novel (not featuring Kirk McGarvey),
is due for delivery sometime in the summer of 2007. It’s based on the true story of Yvonne Weinstock
(now Bornstein) and her husband who were doing barter trade business with several Russian firms in
the middle nineties.
A deal went bad, and the Weinstocks were kidnapped in Moscow and held for ransom. It was eleven days
before Yvonne and her husband were rescued by a joint operation of the U.S. FBI and Russian Spetsnaz
(MVD Special Forces). During their captivity they were beaten, tortured, starved and she was raped.
Their treatment was so brutal they very nearly died, and to this day Yvonne still bears the scars
both physical as well as mental from the ordeal.
In addition to the novel, I have completed a screenplay, of the same name, based on my novel,
which is being represented in Hollywood by Kevin Cleary of Content House LA.
UPDATE: Jan, 2008
Burned, the novel, has been delivered, and I'll deliver a revised screenplay to LA
Content House, before the end of January 08
UPDATE: March, 2008
Burned is scheduled for sometime in 09.
Burned screenplay revisions are in the works.
THE EXPEDITER - formerly titled PYONGYANG, which is a new Kirk McGarvey adventure is due for delivery sometime in the late fall, early winter.
Without giving away too much of the story, a Chinese intelligence general in North Korea’s capital to help convince Kim Jong-il to give up his nuclear weapons is assassinated in front of the Chinese Embassy. The North Koreans did not do it, and McGarvey is convinced to travel to Pyongyang to prove it. (And believe me, convincing Mac to take on the project was the toughest bit of writing I’ve had to do in a very long time!)
From North Korea the story takes him to Seoul, to Washington, D.C. and finally to Tokyo for a confrontation with one of McGarvey’s toughest, most intelligent and most ruthless foes ever.
Clues for the ending can be found in Allah’s Scorpion, Forge Books, December 2006,
and Dance With The Dragon, Forge Books, September 2007.
UPDATE: Jan, 2008
Pyongyang is now titled The Expediter. The Expediter revisions are completed and the book is scheduled for publication Feb. 09.
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