Future State The Chronicles Of Michael Slotery [Hardcover]

Michael Slotery was born in 22nd Century Los Angeles, enjoyed a youth filled with wonder and temptation, tested the limits well into adulthood, and watched the world descend into chaos. In the end, the only safe place to live was in the fortified towers high above the crumbling, violent world below. The forests were gone and the sea was dead. There was a way out, but it came with a death sentence. Michael left just the same. Not that his new life had turned out much like he planned. Sure, his adopted home was everything he wanted, but he would always be hunted. Tragically, it wasn't just his life at stake. Intertwined with Michael's fate was the greatest discovery in history, a resource more precious than oil, diamonds or gold and the last real hope for our future. Sheriff Mitch Waters grew up in Big Sur and he was used to the unusual. It was that kind of place. But recent events disturbed him. It seemed to have all started with Robert Fletcher's death, his old boss. Mitch knew it was murder, and so did Robert's widow. There just wasn't enough evidence. It had been years, but Louise Fletcher wasn't letting it go. And who could blame her? Now, the bodies were stacking up. Plenty of new material for her newspaper, if only she could print the truth. Park Ranger Brian Gilbert never saw anything like this back in his native New Zealand. Nor anywhere else for that matter. A crater, twenty feet deep in a country meadow, cut with perfect precision, appearing overnight. Other ominous signs and a mountain man's frightening tale tell him that something quite unnatural lurks in the dense forestland of the central coast. Former FBI agent Timothy Rodden and his associates have a pretty good idea what's creating all the commotion and figure to make a tidy profit from the situation. And when you're talking about billions of dollars what's an innocent life or two? Besides, they have their government pals to back them up. Deputy Russell McGuire doesn't like his job. In fact, he doesnlã=