The Grid

The Grid explores power on many physical, electrical, political, economic, and spiritual. Power expresses uniquely, whether it is turning the shaft of a turbine, motivating the decisions of a business enterprise, or inspiring someone to an act of courage.The setting for The Grid is the electrical power business. Hank Hudson is an overworked mechanical engineer from a Midwest utility. Natasha Shakhova is a beautiful Russian nuclear power plant director. Dieter Schmidt is the ruthless CEO of Energia, an international energy cartel. Energia has a deep secret. It has developed an unconventional way of producing electrical energy, one that doesn't use fuel, nor creates environmentally destructive pollution. What's so sinister is that Energia is suppressing their discovery.Hank and Natasha meet at a European trade conference and unsuspectingly become caught up in a whirlwind of intrigue and industrial espionage that lifts them out of their everyday existence and into an urgent mission to bring this new technology into safe hands. Will they prevail, or will Energia's security henchmen prevent them from succeeding? The implications for the world are staggering.

Alden Studebaker is an author and minister living in the Cincinnati area. He is the author of Wisdom for a Lifetime - How to Get the Bible Off the Shelf and Into Your Hands, a Bible handbook for progressive minded Christians published by Unity Books. He has a degree in religion from Western Michigan University, and presents workshops on Bible interpretation around the country. He is also the son of Henry 'Hank' Studebaker, a mechanical engineer working for the US Navy, and to whom this book is dedicated.