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INTERVIEWS
DR. NORENE MOSKALSKI
By Lia London
from CLEAN INDIE READS
NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM
Kate and Jake Connors International Thrillers Series
by Norene Moskalski
Thriller, Mystery
A college student collecting water samples is missing...Another collapses on a sea foam covered beach...Young adults start dying at coastal resorts...And no one knows why. The race to save a generation begins now!
Drs. Kate and Jake Connors, covert agents serving as research professors, witness a normally passive waterborne bacterium go viral on Venice's Lido Beach. Along the shores of the Mid-Atlantic States and Coastal Europe, one in ten people begin dying from the bacteria, and all of them are young adults in their twenties and thirties. Racing against time and across continents, Kate and Jake must find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, track down the scientist who genetically modified the bacterium, and solve the mystery surrounding its specifically targeted victims…before it contaminates the world's water supply.
"It was disturbing and exciting at the same time, I could not put it down."--Amazon reviewer
"It's a plot-driven, fast-paced thriller, grounded in the author's knowledge of sound scientific principles."--Amazon reviewer
"Makes you think about the impact on the world we have as individuals."--Amazon reviewer
Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
CIR: What gave you the idea to write an eco-thriller?
MOSKALSKI: In 2005 very few people were talking about the sea level rise, and I felt compelled to find quality research articles either explaining it or refuting it. The most important website I found was the University of Arizona's maps showing the amount of land that would be submerged if the sea level rose 1, 3, or 5 centimeters. Imagine how startled I was the day I returned to their website and discovered their new maps showed land loss at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 meters of sea level rise. The universities were on to something, but still very little media coverage was occurring, and most states had not begun planning for coastal changes. I thought my book should be a fact-based thriller, designed to entertain, as well as inform. I hoped it could help people understand the effects sea level rise and climate change could have on their lives. The threat of invasive bacteria is real. Scientists have already documented the movement of tropical pathogens into temperate zones where the inhabitants have little immunity to them and a limited knowledge of how to control them.
CIR: What gave you the inspiration for this book?
MOSKALSKI: God is my muse. Whatever beauty arises in my writing comes from Him. All the ordinary passages come from me, refusing to listen to His words.
CIR: What themes do you address in this book?
MOSKALSKI: Balance--maintaining a healthy balance in everything--our lives, our work, our family, and nature. Unconditional Love--of utmost importance in raising every child. They need to know, without a doubt, that they are loved and always will be loved. Justice--and our perpetual struggle to right the wrongs that we see.
CIR: Who is your target audience?
MOSKALSKI: College and university students and alumni(ae), their parents and benefactors, professors, researchers, administrators, and the communities in which they live and work.
CIR: Are any of the characters like you or someone you know?
MOSKALSKI: Yes, every character is a composite of the characteristics of people I know, and because I am the writer, there is a touch of me in most characters.
“UPLIFTING AND SUPPORTIVE OF THE CULTURE OF LIFE”:
AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC NOVELIST NORENE MOSKALSKI
by Peter J. Mongeau, CatholicFiction.net
Most Recent Book: Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam
CatholicFiction.net: Why do you write?
Norene Moskalski: I write academic research and fact-based fiction to expand knowledge and to entertain.
CF: What first inspired you to become a writer?
NM: When I learned about literary elements in high school literature class, I saw the beauty of language and its meaningful construction, and I wanted to write something beautiful myself.
CF: If you were a critic writing about your own books, how would you describe the defining characteristic of your writing style?
NM: Here’s a quote about my writing from my book’s cover: “In every scene, her readers are in the middle of the action, just inches away from each of the characters who suddenly seem as real as the neighbors next door.”
CF: What is your cure for writer's block?
NM: Prayer.
CF: What is your cure for procrastination?
NM: More prayer.
CF: Describe in your own words what the “Catholic imagination” is – or alternatively, what it means to be a “Catholic writer.”
NM: I believe a “Catholic writer” who writes for the general public must subtly incorporate her Catholic values and morals in her story in a way that is never preachy or judgmental, but rather uplifting and supportive of the culture of life.
CF: What three writers – alive or dead – would you like to invite to dinner?
NM: Just one writer is enough: Jesus – He wrote in the sand and in people’s hearts, in their minds and in their souls. I would want to learn from the greatest teacher.
CF: What is the "best thing" about being a writer?
NM: The best thing about being a writer is being creative. I enjoy creating something that did not exist before I began writing.
CF: What is your latest book about?
NM: Drs. Kate and Jake Connors, research university professors and undercover agents, race against time and across continents to find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, a genetically modified killer bacteria, and to capture the rogue scientist who released it into the world’s water supply.
CF: What inspired you to write this story in the first place?
NM: In 2005 very few people were talking about sea level rise, and I felt compelled to find quality research articles either explaining it or refuting it. The most important website I found was the University of Arizona's maps showing the amount of land that would be submerged if the sea level rose 1, 3, or 5 centimeters. Imagine how startled I was the day I returned to their website and discovered their new maps showed land loss at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 meters of sea level rise. The universities were on to something, but still very little media coverage was occurring, and most states had not begun planning for coastal changes.
I thought my book should be a fact-based thriller, designed to entertain, as well as inform. I hoped it could help people understand the effects sea level rise and climate change could have on their lives. The threat of invasive bacteria due to climate change is real. Scientists have already documented the movement of tropical pathogens into temperate zones where the inhabitants have little immunity to them and a limited knowledge of how to control them.
Having worked on university campuses as a researcher, professor, and administrator, I decided to tell this story with characters and settings familiar to me and to people who attend college, who send their children to college, or who enjoy a good college sports program.
CF: Did you hold onto the idea for a long time before giving it shape, or did it come together in a flash?
NM: All the ideas in the novel started to come together within a three month period. The process was like the snowball technique in qualitative research where one idea leads to another and another and another, and soon the researcher can meld the ideas’ commonalities into a concept greater than all the parts of the research. That was the process that I used to form the plot and subplots of this story.
CF: What did you learn about yourself in writing this book?
NM: I learned that writing a novel encompasses the phrase “If the Lord does not build the house, in vain do its builders labor…”. The complexity of tying all the characters and plots together at the end of a novel is a very difficult task. I learned that without God, I could not have written this book – I give Him full credit for this work. All of the beautiful language and flowing rhythms came from Him; all of the ordinary language and bumpy constructions came from me whenever I failed to hear His voice.
CF: What did you have to do to prepare for this book in terms of research?
NM: I had to read the current research on climate change, learn about estuaries, bays, and ocean coastal zones, and understand the types of research that scientists do in coastal waters. Most importantly, I had to take a graduate course in bacteriology.
CF: How does this book differ from either a) previous books you’ve written or b) other writing work you’ve accomplished?
NM: All of my other published papers and presentations have been academic research. This is my first work of fiction.
CF: What was the most challenging aspect – a character, a plot point, etc. – of writing this book?
NM: The most challenging aspect of writing this thriller was producing a novel of sufficient length. Academic writing is succinct; creative writing is expansive.
CF: Name one good habit you do have as a writer and would like to continue to cultivate.
NM: I pray before I begin writing.
CF: Name one bad habit you have as a writer that you would like to break.
NM: I stay up writing and researching until the early hours of the morning.
CF: Name one good habit you would like to have as a writer and do not have at the moment.
NM: I would like to begin writing earlier in the day.
CF: What is the most discouraging aspect of being a writer?
NM: The difficult process of acquiring an agent and/or a publisher.
CF: What one project do you daydream about accomplishing as a writer – your magnum opus?
NM: Since my first novel is titled Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam, meaning my first work about Bacillus nocturne, I would say that I have a great number of books to write yet to get even close to a magnum opus.
CF: If you could no longer work with words, what medium would you work in to create art.
NM: Definitely oil painting, watercolors, and nature photography.
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Saltwater Portrait
Norene Moskalski: Author motivated by the coast
New novel set in Delaware
By Melissa Steele | Dec 11, 2012 Cape Gazette, Lewes. Delaware
Norene Moskalski spends her spare time in Lewes and wrote her first book set in a Delaware coastal area.
Norene Moskalski has traveled the world visiting just about every coastline along the way. After vacationing in Lewes for the first time in 2004, she knew it was a place she wanted to return.
"Out of all of the coasts I've visited, I like the Delaware coast the best," she said. "I like the way the beaches are open to the public."
She likes it so much, she set the plot of her first novel, "Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam," along the Delaware coast.
Using her professional experience in academia and combining it with a twist of espionage, Moskalski wrote what she calls "a high stakes medical eco-thriller."
The book is about a couple of researchers at a Delaware university who secretly work as agents for an environmental group. They discover a rogue scientist has infected local waters with life-threatening bacteria and they must stop him before people die.
The idea for the book came to her while reminiscing about her doctoral thesis and remembering all the visiting professors she met during that time in her life.
"I wondered, what if those professors weren't really professors but they were government agents dropped into the setting?" she said. "It got me thinking that I could write a story about that."
Pennsylvania rootsMoskalski grew up in Hermitage, Pa., where she was graduated from high school in 1966. She continued her education at Slippery Rock University earning a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree from University of Pittsburgh, both for English and secondary education.
Though she didn't plan it, she jokes that she got a Mrs. from her time at Slippery Rock along with a bachelor's degree.
Moskalski said she met her husband, Michael, during her first day at Slippery Rock.
"We were there two weeks before school started for band camp," she said.
Though in different band sections – she played the trumpet, Michael played contra-bass clarinet – they made a life-long connection.
"I still have my trumpet," she said. "It is something that I'd like to take up in my retirement."
World of academiaMoskalski worked for a few years as a high school teacher before taking time off to raise two daughters – Susanne and Lisa.
Returning to the workforce when her youngest was in kindergarten, she quickly found a job in higher education. She worked for Penn State University at Mont Alto before earning a doctorate in higher education administration from Penn State in 2000. From there, she worked at Temple University as a professor and assistant vice provost among other duties surveying the college's institutes, which are funded by grant money. Her job was to research what the institutes do and explain how they are funded, she said.
Higher degrees run in the family – Michael has a doctorate in an educational field, Lisa earned a master's in business administration from Stanford and Susanne has a doctorate from University of Delaware in marine studies and oceanography.
Moskalski's visits during the four years Susanne worked on her Ph.D. in Lewes convinced Moskalski that Lewes was a place she would like to someday call home.
"Some places we've visited don't even allow people to pick up shells or sea glass from the beach," she said. "I think Delaware has done a great job preserving the coast for public use."
Delaware daysMoskalski and her husband now have a home in Bear and a vacation home in Bay Crossing. Between traveling to Palo Alto, Calif., to visit daughter Lisa, her husband and their grandson, almost 2, the couple spends as much free time as possible in Lewes, she said.
"We love the beaches, the history, the restaurants," she said. "When we come to Lewes, we just feel like we're on vacation. People are so welcoming and the atmosphere is so relaxed."
Moskalski is taking a break before writing her next novel – a follow-up to Sea Foam. In the meantime, she is staying busy trying her hand at publishing other Delmarva novelists through her start-up company, Divinity Press.
Her book can be purchased at www.NoreneMoskalski.com or found at Amazon.com.
"My dream is to have a house on the beach, but I'll have to sell a few more books, " she said.
Interview of Dr. Norene Moskalski, Author
by Shelagh Watkins of Literature & Fiction
Norene M. Moskalski
November 16, 2012
Interview with Shelagh Watkins from Literature & Fiction on www.shelaghwatkins.wordpress.com
Dr. Norene M. Moskalski writes about the intrigues and perils of university life. She strives for authenticity in her writing by visiting and researching all of the international places and university settings that she describes in her novels. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using literary techniques and musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: what if the most beautiful things in the world turned out to be the most dangerous? Iridescent bubbles of sea foam – what exactly is sea foam? Your best friend next door – what does she actually do for a living?
Tell everyone a little about yourself, Norene.
Norene: I enjoy walking the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, I have a Ph.D. in University Administration from Penn State University, a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Slippery Rock University. I’ve presented my peer-reviewed, published research on faculty work at international business and engineering conferences, and served as administrator, professor, researcher, grant writer, and mentor at research universities for over fifteen years. I am a member of various writing and environmental organizations, such as The Eastern Shore Writers Association, The Nature Conservancy, The Sierra Club, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, The National Wildlife Federation, and The Smithsonian Institute.
When did the writing bug bite, and in what genre(s)?
Norene: I fell in love with the idea of writing a novel in elementary school when my English teacher taught us how to recognize the literary elements in the book she assigned for our class to read. The hunt began! After that experience, reading novels held a whole new dimension for me, not only reading for enjoyment but analyzing how skillfully the author used those techniques. When I became an English teacher, I realized we needed more contemporary novels suitable for classroom use that held the students’ attention while they learned how to analyze a novel. I often thought, “I really ought to try writing one,” but as a working Mom, my time constraints were prohibitive. Once the children were grown and off on their own, though, I began writing in earnest.
When you started writing, what goals did you want to accomplish?
Norene: My goals for writing during my professional career very much depended upon the current task, whether writing a successful grant proposal or a doctoral dissertation. My goals for writing fiction are very different: I seek enjoyment in wordsmithing, peace in passing on life’s lessons, and inspiration from God.
Is there a message you want readers to grasp?
Norene: Each novel I write in the Kate and Jake Connors Series will examine critical contemporary issues through multiple perspectives. I want my readers to understand that there are many variables in life that affect a person’s decisions to act the way they do.
Briefly tell us about your latest book. Is it part of a series or stand-alone?
Norene: The Kate and Jake Connors series begins with Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam, an international eco-thriller. Kate and Jake are university research professors at Atlantic University’s Institute for Public Policy and Safety in Dover, Delaware. They are also covert operatives for a secret, scientific subdivision of the Institute known only as the Agency. While vacationing at Venice’s Lido Beach, they witness the collapse of Kate’s sister on a sea foam covered beach. Her illness propels them into a seventy-two hour race against time and across continents to find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, the rogue scientist who created it, and to stop the bacteria from contaminating the world’s aquifers.
How do you draw your characters?
Norene: I draw my characters from real-life experiences with people I have met recently or known a very long time. Usually my characters are a composite of all those intriguing personality traits people have.
How do you develop the settings in your stories?
Norene: My settings are all places I have visited and researched in order to make them as authentic to the reader as possible. I want my readers to feel like they are in the scene right beside the character.
Who’s the most unusual/most likeable character?
Norene: Kate is the most likeable character in the story because she has achieved great heights in her career, yet inside is just like everyone of us coping with life’s variables and having our own flaws.
Do you have specific techniques to help you maintain the course of the plot?
Norene: Oh, no, I wish I did! Because I write from inspiration, I often have to rearrange scenes to put them into a more exciting order. That takes considerable time because suddenly, a statement in Chapter 32 doesn’t fit the story line anymore. I’ve never been big on outlining, so I’m always looking for a way to handle this problem. A seminar that Lisa Gardner gave at ThrillerFest a few years ago helped me a great deal. I adapted it to my “flat filing system” (on the floor), and now spread out printed chapters on my office floor, moving them around to get the best order of events and to see where I need to add a few more chapters. What fun! What a mess!
How does your environment/upbringing color your writing?
Norene: Immensely! We’re always taught to write about what we know, and I always thought that nothing really adventurous was occurring in my life, so how could I write about what I know? Now I understand–that statement really means to put what you know about in the descriptive details of your story. If you know what the sun feels like shining on your face on a very cold winter day, put that in your scene. If you’ve driven a clunker of a car driving on fumes past Empty, have a character do that. If you know about rocks and minerals, add a few to your scene details. If you love gold gemstone jewelry, wrap your character in it. It works and you get to write about some of the things you love.
Share the best review (or a portion) that you’ve ever had.
Norene: "I forgot I was reading a work of fiction. The characters were so real."
What are your current projects?
Norene: The next novel in the series and a nonfiction book about cats. Hmmmm. Maybe I can combine the two!
Where can folks learn more about your books and events?
Norene: My website is www.NoreneMoskalski.com and my publisher’s website is www.DivinityPress.com
My book is at http://www.amazon.com/Nocturne-Opus-1-Sea-Foam/dp/0988381176
Thanks for joining us today, Norene.
Norene: Thank you for the opportunity to answer your interview questions.
Posted in Author Interviews. Tags: author interview, eco-thriller, fiction, scientist, thriller.
November 16, 2012
Interview with Shelagh Watkins from Literature & Fiction on www.shelaghwatkins.wordpress.com
Dr. Norene M. Moskalski writes about the intrigues and perils of university life. She strives for authenticity in her writing by visiting and researching all of the international places and university settings that she describes in her novels. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using literary techniques and musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: what if the most beautiful things in the world turned out to be the most dangerous? Iridescent bubbles of sea foam – what exactly is sea foam? Your best friend next door – what does she actually do for a living?
Tell everyone a little about yourself, Norene.
Norene: I enjoy walking the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, I have a Ph.D. in University Administration from Penn State University, a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Slippery Rock University. I’ve presented my peer-reviewed, published research on faculty work at international business and engineering conferences, and served as administrator, professor, researcher, grant writer, and mentor at research universities for over fifteen years. I am a member of various writing and environmental organizations, such as The Eastern Shore Writers Association, The Nature Conservancy, The Sierra Club, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, The National Wildlife Federation, and The Smithsonian Institute.
When did the writing bug bite, and in what genre(s)?
Norene: I fell in love with the idea of writing a novel in elementary school when my English teacher taught us how to recognize the literary elements in the book she assigned for our class to read. The hunt began! After that experience, reading novels held a whole new dimension for me, not only reading for enjoyment but analyzing how skillfully the author used those techniques. When I became an English teacher, I realized we needed more contemporary novels suitable for classroom use that held the students’ attention while they learned how to analyze a novel. I often thought, “I really ought to try writing one,” but as a working Mom, my time constraints were prohibitive. Once the children were grown and off on their own, though, I began writing in earnest.
When you started writing, what goals did you want to accomplish?
Norene: My goals for writing during my professional career very much depended upon the current task, whether writing a successful grant proposal or a doctoral dissertation. My goals for writing fiction are very different: I seek enjoyment in wordsmithing, peace in passing on life’s lessons, and inspiration from God.
Is there a message you want readers to grasp?
Norene: Each novel I write in the Kate and Jake Connors Series will examine critical contemporary issues through multiple perspectives. I want my readers to understand that there are many variables in life that affect a person’s decisions to act the way they do.
Briefly tell us about your latest book. Is it part of a series or stand-alone?
Norene: The Kate and Jake Connors series begins with Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam, an international eco-thriller. Kate and Jake are university research professors at Atlantic University’s Institute for Public Policy and Safety in Dover, Delaware. They are also covert operatives for a secret, scientific subdivision of the Institute known only as the Agency. While vacationing at Venice’s Lido Beach, they witness the collapse of Kate’s sister on a sea foam covered beach. Her illness propels them into a seventy-two hour race against time and across continents to find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, the rogue scientist who created it, and to stop the bacteria from contaminating the world’s aquifers.
How do you draw your characters?
Norene: I draw my characters from real-life experiences with people I have met recently or known a very long time. Usually my characters are a composite of all those intriguing personality traits people have.
How do you develop the settings in your stories?
Norene: My settings are all places I have visited and researched in order to make them as authentic to the reader as possible. I want my readers to feel like they are in the scene right beside the character.
Who’s the most unusual/most likeable character?
Norene: Kate is the most likeable character in the story because she has achieved great heights in her career, yet inside is just like everyone of us coping with life’s variables and having our own flaws.
Do you have specific techniques to help you maintain the course of the plot?
Norene: Oh, no, I wish I did! Because I write from inspiration, I often have to rearrange scenes to put them into a more exciting order. That takes considerable time because suddenly, a statement in Chapter 32 doesn’t fit the story line anymore. I’ve never been big on outlining, so I’m always looking for a way to handle this problem. A seminar that Lisa Gardner gave at ThrillerFest a few years ago helped me a great deal. I adapted it to my “flat filing system” (on the floor), and now spread out printed chapters on my office floor, moving them around to get the best order of events and to see where I need to add a few more chapters. What fun! What a mess!
How does your environment/upbringing color your writing?
Norene: Immensely! We’re always taught to write about what we know, and I always thought that nothing really adventurous was occurring in my life, so how could I write about what I know? Now I understand–that statement really means to put what you know about in the descriptive details of your story. If you know what the sun feels like shining on your face on a very cold winter day, put that in your scene. If you’ve driven a clunker of a car driving on fumes past Empty, have a character do that. If you know about rocks and minerals, add a few to your scene details. If you love gold gemstone jewelry, wrap your character in it. It works and you get to write about some of the things you love.
Share the best review (or a portion) that you’ve ever had.
Norene: "I forgot I was reading a work of fiction. The characters were so real."
What are your current projects?
Norene: The next novel in the series and a nonfiction book about cats. Hmmmm. Maybe I can combine the two!
Where can folks learn more about your books and events?
Norene: My website is www.NoreneMoskalski.com and my publisher’s website is www.DivinityPress.com
My book is at http://www.amazon.com/Nocturne-Opus-1-Sea-Foam/dp/0988381176
Thanks for joining us today, Norene.
Norene: Thank you for the opportunity to answer your interview questions.
Posted in Author Interviews. Tags: author interview, eco-thriller, fiction, scientist, thriller.
Norene's Environmental Blog About the Delaware Bay Area: NoreneMoskalski.com
Dr. Norene Moskalski can often be found enjoying the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, weathered minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, she has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and has held administrative and teaching positions at Penn State University and Temple University. She has spent most of her life preparing administrators and teachers to lead and teach ethically with love and respect for everyone. The settings for her novels are authentic vignettes from university campuses and places around the world she has visited. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using literary techniques and musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: What if the most beautiful things in the world are the most dangerous?
Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam
AN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ECO-THRILLER SET IN FRANCE, BELGIUM, SPAIN, ITALY, MONACO, AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A college student collecting water samples is missing...
Another collapses on a sea foam covered beach...
Young adults start dying at coastal resorts...
And no one knows why.
THE RACE TO SAVE A GENERATION BEGINS NOW!
Drs. Kate and Jake Connors are research professors at Atlantic University's Institute for Public Policy and Safety, which is dedicated to peacefully resolving international conflicts caused by climate change.
They also serve as covert agents for a privately-funded, scientific subdivision of the Institute known only as the Agency.
The Agency assigns its operatives to investigate and eliminate natural and human threats to the environment. As cover for their missions, the agents pose as visiting professors and graduate students at universities near crisis areas ... sometimes walking the thin line between activists and extremists.
While vacationing at Venice's Lido Beach, Kate and Jake witness one of the first cases of a normally passive waterborne bacterium attacking a person. Along the shores of the Mid-Atlantic States and Coastal Europe, one in ten people begin dying from exposure to the bacteria, and all of them are young adults in their twenties and thirties.
When the CDC and WHO extrapolate for the bacteria entering the world's aquifers, they predict the death of an entire generation.
Racing against time and across continents, Kate and Jake must find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, track down the rogue scientist who genetically modified the bacterium, and solve the mystery surrounding its specifically targeted victims…before it contaminates the world's water supply.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A college student collecting water samples is missing...
Another collapses on a sea foam covered beach...
Young adults start dying at coastal resorts...
And no one knows why.
THE RACE TO SAVE A GENERATION BEGINS NOW!
Drs. Kate and Jake Connors are research professors at Atlantic University's Institute for Public Policy and Safety, which is dedicated to peacefully resolving international conflicts caused by climate change.
They also serve as covert agents for a privately-funded, scientific subdivision of the Institute known only as the Agency.
The Agency assigns its operatives to investigate and eliminate natural and human threats to the environment. As cover for their missions, the agents pose as visiting professors and graduate students at universities near crisis areas ... sometimes walking the thin line between activists and extremists.
While vacationing at Venice's Lido Beach, Kate and Jake witness one of the first cases of a normally passive waterborne bacterium attacking a person. Along the shores of the Mid-Atlantic States and Coastal Europe, one in ten people begin dying from exposure to the bacteria, and all of them are young adults in their twenties and thirties.
When the CDC and WHO extrapolate for the bacteria entering the world's aquifers, they predict the death of an entire generation.
Racing against time and across continents, Kate and Jake must find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, track down the rogue scientist who genetically modified the bacterium, and solve the mystery surrounding its specifically targeted victims…before it contaminates the world's water supply.
