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Paul Moomaw worked as a newsman in Mexico, California, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, before returning to school for a doctorate in clinical psychology. He calls Missoula, Montana home.
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THE LAZARUS DROP
Genre: Science Fiction (eBook) Author: Paul Moomaw Cover art: Judith Huey eBook (12 popular formats), $4.95 This eBook is available in Adobe [.PDF], Microsoft [.LIT], Palm Doc [.PDB], Rocket/REB1100 [.RB], Franklin [.FUB], Hiebook [.KML]
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The time is the end of the 21st century, when the Greenhouse Effect has done its dirty work, submerging huge areas of land, and causing worldwide economic and social disruption. Earthquakes and flooding have left Japan a remnant of its old self. Europe has been carved up into power blocks. Mexico has devolved into a cluster of fiefdoms. Brazil has become the dominant power on the South American continent. The United States is intact, but looking over its shoulder.
Nathanial Blue, freelance trouble shooter, gets a contract from an unnamed government agency to drop into Mexico, find and rescue a Hungarian scientist who may have the secret of interstellar space travel, and haul him back to the relative safety of the USA. What Blue doesn't know, until it is almost too late to matter, is that the government agency that hired him is almost as dirty as the bad guys on the other side, and that he is not meant to make it back alive.
"A fast-paced adventure thriller set in the near future in Mexico, The Lazarus Drop combines the old "Sam Spade" narrative with modern technology. Nathaniel Blue, the hero, steals the show with his good/bad guy, very human personality . . . I fell in love with Blue; I hope we haven't seen the last of him."—S. Joan Popek, Reviewer
"The Lazarus Drop is an exciting adventure, filled with twists, turns, and action . . . Nathaniel Blue is a strong hero (who is) totally aware of his faults, and he seems to enjoy the havoc they sometimes wreak—the more challenges the better."
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