The Poseidon Files
By Mike Rickett
()
About this ebook
Two scientists discover that a top secret installation in Alaska run by the American military, ostensibly conducting research into the upper atmosphere, is in fact developing technology that could transform the weather into a weapon of mass destruction and kill millions of people. They are horrified and decide to warn the world by copying vital classified files. But fate plays a decisive hand when the car they escape in plunges into a fast moving river during a violent storm in freezing temperatures.
One of them, George Parry, survives and escapes pursuing military police believing his colleague, Keri Murdoch, is dead, managing to grab a microchip containing classified files before the car is swept down the river. Parry makes his way to Toronto and then on to Liverpool in the UK intending to give the files to the Press to warn the world of the potential dangers. But he is followed and murdered in a Liverpool hotel room but not before passing the microchip onto an unsuspecting woman during a psychic reading in an attempt to hide from his pursuers.
Artist and mystic Naomi Richards, 26, leads an uneventful life, enjoying the new-found freedom in bustling Liverpool that a divorce from a cheating husband has brought her. Naomi makes a precarious living from art and her psychic abilities and when Parry hides in a city centre pub and sits for a psychic reading with her, Naomi realises that he is frightened of something or someone sinister following him. He hands her a keyring as a token for the reading but before she can discover what he is scared of he runs out leaving a notebook and the keyring behind. Naomi is not to know that the secret microchip is contained in the keyring but because she was the last person to see Parry alive she becomes a target.
In Toronto, private investigator Alex Nelson is hired by FBI station chief Gram Rogers to recover the files and she travels to Liverpool only to discover that Parry has been murdered and that the last person to see him alive was Naomi.
Celebrity climate change activist Myron Hill is a leading light in the Environment Rebellion protest movement who also hears rumours of the research in Alaska. He decides to investigate and discovers that secret files have been copied; files that prove how destructive it would be to the environment. But Hill is not who he appears to be and he too has a secret.
FBI chief Gram Rogers encourages Alex to befriend Naomi believing her to have hidden the files but Alex becomes a target for assassins herself when an attempt is made to poison her on the streets of Liverpool.
Naomi and Alex are pursued by both the Russian Mafia and the GRU who are keen to redeem themselves after the fiasco of the failed attempt to murder the Skripals in Salisbury but one of their number is found murdered in Naomi’s apartment. They flee to Snowdonia to stay with Naomi’s brother but there is an attempt to murder Naomi in the mists of mount Snowdon. But the supernatural takes a hand to save her.
They return to Liverpool where the final drama is played out on the streets of Liverpool where Naomi is abducted and held hostage by a criminal gang. The supernatural comes to her aid in a final confrontation which takes place in a notoriously haunted sunken cemetery that lies alongside Liverpool's majestic Anglican cathedral in which the Mafia gang are killed.
Will the world be warned about HAARP? Is there a cover-up? The final chapters reveal that people and events are not what they seem.
Mike Rickett
I am a career journalist having worked for the London Dail Mail, Reuters and latterly the Liverpool Daily Post on Merseyside as well as the journalists’ leader in the region. I have experience as a crime reporter, feature writer, business editor and latterly, a senior sub-editor.My qualifications include a BA (Hons) English, from the University of Liverpool; a BA (Hons) Fine Art and an MA in Creative Practice both from Liverpool Hope University.I now divide my time between art and writing.I will shortly be publishing my first full-length novel, The Poseidon Files and as a taster I have written a short story which features the same central female character in which she talks about her world and her life. It is, however, essentially a ghost story.
Related to The Poseidon Files
Related ebooks
Serenity Blake: A Paranormal Relic Hunters Prequel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKings of Colorado: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Woods Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Remover Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisciples of Oblivion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dream Eater Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lesions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Miracle of Me: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prison Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime in the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChin Up, Head Down: A Mother's Journey of Madness and Grief Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDead Man's Hand: Ace Stubble, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Savage Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf I Live Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDead to Bites Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurn Three: The Third Bear Whitman Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Bit of Horror Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouled Out Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDancing Barefoot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Master of Silence A Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Potential Hazards of Hester Day: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForbidden Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHollywood Boulevard Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Otherside Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmall Legs, Big Teeth: A Prequel of Something Yet to Come Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lust of Linda Levy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFate: No Strings Attached Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Antiquities Hunter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Viking's Curse: Deadrose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Thrillers For You
The Perfect Marriage: A Completely Gripping Psychological Suspense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pretty Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rock Paper Scissors: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Housemaid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl Who Was Taken: A Gripping Psychological Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Good Indians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Maidens: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Needful Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Family Upstairs: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hidden Pictures: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eyes of the Dragon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cryptonomicon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Turn of the Key Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Crew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sometimes I Lie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Poseidon Files
0 ratings0 reviews