Cosmosis - Softcover

Rey, Rainer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620459922 ISBN 13: 9781620459928

Publisher: Turner, 2014

Synopsis

Jace Kelton and Madison Marro are on a parallel quest for answers―answers that others have sought but not survived to tell.

Tracking his father’s alleged killer to a doomed Gulf of Mexico oil rig sinking in a hurricane, Jace discovers a bizarre connection with Maddy: both of their parents played pivotal roles in the search for a source of limitless energy to replace fossil fuels. After her only living relative is murdered as part of a cover-up, Maddy is forced to complete her family’s powerful quest for sustainable resources. This family mission pulls Maddy and Jace into a whirlwind race against a ruthless mercenary task force that’s killing everyone in its way to get there first.

The relentless competition for energy supremacy crosses continents, touching on legendary mysteries of ancient peoples and enigmatic landmarks, including the Bermuda Triangle, Easter Island, the Pyramids of Giza, and the Nazca Plain. Together, Jace and Maddy explore these wonders of the past that may reveal the answers they've been seeking. With an overwhelming killing force on their heels, they stumble upon a mystical interstellar connection between the energy needs of Earth and the future of all humankind. Time is quickly running out for Jace and Maddy to act―or else a catastrophe more frightening than they could ever dream will devastate the entire globe.

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About the Author

RAINER REY is the owner and partner of a high-profile marketing firm. Over the years, he has created advertising campaigns for use in broadcast, print, and the Internet as well as new product research and development. Rey has appeared on television countless times, was host of his own television program, and was featured as an actor on a made-for-TV movie. He is author of Replicator Run and Day of the Dove. Cosmosis is his third novel.

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Jace glanced north. A large number of seagulls circled over the bay to his left like a mobile, spinning around the vortex of some fishy feast. In the distance across the water in a park, dotted colors danced across the gray canvas of the waterfront. Parents and kids and kites. Out early, playing. He had a kite once––a box kite that his father had made in the garage before he died . . . bright red.

Jace came to the end of the walkway. To his right a passageway led away from the shore towards downtown. The narrow walk was shaded from the morning sun.

Jace stopped and felt his gut churn. Some forty yards away, where the passageway took a sharp right turn, a dark shapeless mass huddled on the cement. Jace heard a muffled cry as he walked tentatively toward the dark mound. Another cry––more of a wail.

"Hey!" Jace shouted. The shape moved abruptly at his call. The brim of a hat appeared. The dark mound was a square-jawed man in a raincoat and a white scarf. A raincoat? In this weather? Something else moved beneath. Kicking legs––the heels of shoes driving into the pavement.

Jace broke into a run. "What the hell are you doing?"

On his knees, the man in the coat made a jerk with his right arm and pulled what appeared to be a manila envelope from the body. Deja vu shuddered through Jace as he stared into the hollowness of the man's expressionless pale eyes. The man whirled, and with long blond hair flying, broke into a full run towards town, leaving the squirming body on the pavement.

Jace had to either help the victim or give chase to the attacker, who rounded a corner of one of the exhibition buildings and disappeared.

A pitiful moan convinced him to let the assailant go. He turned toward the man on the ground, who wore a rumpled blue three-piece suit, narrow gold-rimmed glasses and a trimmed gray beard. His eyes were wide with disbelief, his face contorted by panic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turner
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620459922
• ISBN 13: 9781620459928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348