Last Flight Out of Oz

The mysterious disappearance of an unparalleled genius shakes the community. Has Weissman gone bad? Two brilliant students join forces in a high-stakes mountain chase, battling danger, vengeance, and each other to rescue their beloved mentor, now suspected of terrorism. Kevin Morgan is a fun-loving, geeky engineering student at tiny Colorado Institute of Mining and Technology. Maggie is the smoldering and aristocratic goddess of Stanford Engineering. What do they have in common? Absolutely nothing, except remarkable intellects, quick wits, and a shared awe for Dr. Anthony Weissman, patent multimillionaire and deeply wounded recluse. Weissman blames himself—and tight coupling—for the death of his wife and son. He moves from MIT to Colorado hoping for improvement, but finds none. He’s morose, the students dull, with Kevin the sole exception. When the provost interferes with his teaching, Weissman storms off campus and disappears. Fearing the worst, Kevin and Maggie race to find him, head-butting their way through impossible circumstances. Though overmatched on both fronts, Kevin does his best to simultaneously rescue his mentor and court the intense Maggie. As the news worsens, they face heartrending decisions until finally, explosively, they locate Weissman burrowed under a decrepit mining shack where nothing is as it seems.

Adam Swenson has been involved in writing fulltime for ten years as a feature writer, magazine editor, book co-author and editor, and founder of Swike Creative. He is a 1998 graduate of Bethel University with degrees in philosophy and theology. He has traveled widely, flying small planes in the Amazon, skinning a bear and picking salmon nets in the Alaskan bush, photographing community development in Nigeria, helping to build a maternal-child health clinic in Zambia, reading Sartre at the Left Bank’s Café Les Deux Magots, jogging up the serpentine path to Masada, and working on this novel 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle along the shores of a Norwegian fjord. He lives in Roseville, Minnesota with his wife and daughter. Richard Swenson holds degrees in medicine and physics and is a futurist, physician-researcher, educator, and the author of eight books. He has presented to a wide variety of professional, medical, educational, and management groups, most major church denominations and organizations, members of the United Nations, of Congress, of NASA, and of the Pentagon. He was an invited guest participant for the 44th Annual National Security Seminar. In 2003, he was awarded Educator of the Year by Christian Medical and Dental Associations. He and his wife make their home in Menomonie, Wisconsin.