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STORMDRAGON
by Lloyd RitcheyA Good Storyteller Wrote This Book
Kate McCullough, an investigative reporter, is tired of all news stories being censored and gutted. She wants to write a real explosive investigative report and she may have stumbled across a story. Some kind of secretive government communications system is built into the side of a mountain in Alaska that is more than the government admits; it may be the most powerful weapon the world has ever known. Anyone who gets too close to information about the ARC, or opposes the project seems to die, painfully.
While Kate is trying to finds leads to her story, her father unveils that he is the guardian of a secret project built by the world famous scientist Nikola Tesla in 1899 and they are going to make the machine work again. Now Kate and everyone important to her are in danger and someone will do anything to stop them. It can't be her father's project, no one knows about it, so it must be the people from ARC. Can Kate and her new boyfriend David figure out what is going on and save her family or have they just guaranteed everyone's death?
I loved this book! It is full of secret government conspiracies, death threats, and wonderful creative scientific advances explained in terms a lay person can understand. Kate is a woman not to be messed with and by threatening her family, the bad guys just made her that much more determined to bring them down. David is also a smart and talented man with his own secrets, and he is a great partner for Kate in stopping this plot against the government.
There are almost two parallel stories running through the book but involving some of the same people, and I quickly decided that somewhere there would be a connection. You will have to read the book for yourself to find out how the two stories come together.
If you love action, danger, violence, technological advances, and government conspiracies, this book contains everything you enjoy. I would love to see this book as a movie!
Armchair Interviews says: Lloyd Ritchey is an author to watch!
Edge of Your Seat Thriller...A Roller Coaster Ride
When mad-men are determined to destroy the minds of mankind in order to control the world, who do you call? Better yet, who can you trust?
As a veteran writer, Ritchey showcases his talent in this edge of your seat techno-thriller where science and technology act as both enemies and saviors of mankind.
In a stellar marriage of science and suspense, Stormdragon takes a reader on a roller coaster ride of action and danger without giving the him a chance to catch his breath. Open the cover...and hold on tight.
Tom Clancy bounded on the scene in 1992 with The Hunt For Red October. Move over, Tom. It's 2008...make room for Loyd Ritchey.
—J.B. Kohl, author of The Deputy's Widow
I can't wait to see what Mr. Ritchey does next!
I really enjoyed "Stormdragon." The premise of the book, which involves the taking over of a top-secret US government project by nefarious forces within the government, is fantastic.
I loved the pacing, I loved the characters, and I had a great time reading to the explosive conclusion. This is a book that screams to be made into a movie, and I hope that one day it is.
For a first novel, it is riveting. I cannot wait to see what comes from him next. Buy it, and read it. You will NOT be disappointed.
—Justin Macumber, Writer/Podcaster
The fast-paced scenes in STORMDRAGON play like a feature film. It would make a great movie, provided the producers had an adequate special effects budget! The suspenseful plot had me reading past my bedtime.
I related to the main characters and enjoyed Kate McCullough as a strong, resourceful protagonist and David Hightower as her tough boyfriend and protector. Although Kate is developed as a complete, three-dimensional person, I would like to have known more about her background.
The story is finely crafted and has a strong emotional core that many thrillers lack.
Even though I'm not a technical person, I enjoyed the extreme science and could easily understand the descriptions of the radical, gee-whiz machines and their scientific principles.
Starts with a terrifying mystery, sustains the action and tension, and ends with a bang. Exciting. A totally fun read. Highly recommended!
STORMDRAGON was a great summer read! It's a page turner that kept me reading for hours at a time. I enjoyed the characters, the action, and wild science.
After all the mayhem and conflict, the story races to a very satisfying end. FUN & EXCITING. Read it!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Lloyd Ritchey's Storm Dragon. Being an avid reader, I loved the plot; really thought Lloyd developed the characters well and believe his book should be made into a movie! Storm Dragon is not only an exciting read that is based on the work of a genius, but this action-packed story should really be shown on the big screen. When that day comes, I know I will say, "I read the book in 2010."
The Deputy's Widow
by J.B. Kohl
Hard-as-nails Detective Baker confronts bone-breaking wise guys, truculent cops, and sexually charged femmes fatales in this gritty murder mystery staged in a 40’s New York town.
Story and characters are evocative of Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett (Baker is perhaps like Sam Spade played by a younger, tougher Humphrey Bogart). But author J.B. Kohl has her own, strong noir voice.
This reader was sorry to reach the book’s conclusion, wanting to spend more time with the colorfully drawn characters and linger in the tough world where men are quick with the “heaters” and fast with the fists—and the dames “fill the room with fire.” I look forward to J.B Kohl’s next Detective Baker novel.
Now, where did I put those unfiltered Camels?
—Lloyd Ritchey, author of Stormdragon
Angels Don't Play This HAARP
by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning
HAARP is an innocuous research station designed only to help mankind. It’s a radio transmitter probing the secrets of the ionosphere for our mutual benefit, right?—Wrong.
Dr. Nick Begich teamed with Jeanne Manning to write Angels Don’t Play This Haarp, the book that exposes the potential dangers (and there are many!) of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska.
Manning and Begich substantiate their theories and concerns with extensive research, documentation, interviews, and scientific facts. Some of the geopolitical and mega-corporate connections they have uncovered are as frightening as HAARP’s possibly disastrous impact upon our planet and our lives.
The military has invested heavily in HAARP. Why? Begich and Manning have supplied some very scary answers.
HAARP’s high-energy research system may very well have serious consequences for planet Earth. Its true purpose and actions must be revealed, and toward that end, Angels Don’t Play This Haarp has fired a first and powerful salvo for “We, the People.”
—Lloyd Ritchey, author of Stormdragon
HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy
by Jerry E. Smith
This heavily-researched book reveals a Pandora's Box of technological horrors: worldwide mind control, communications monitoring and disruption, weather modification, environmentally destructive alteration of the ionosphere, and more. This radical science might actually be happening now—with HAARP’s stupendously powerful radio-wave beaming system.
Jerry E. Smith reveals the possible conspiracies that may have coalesced to seize this amazingly versatile technology and turn it into a system for control and enslavement.
HAARP is a science experiment performed on a scale that can alter the entire planet. HAARP, The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy shows why the project may be one of the most dangerous systems ever devised, and why it must be scrutinized, monitored by citizen oversight, and thoroughly investigated before being allowed to continue.
—Lloyd Ritchey, author of Stormdragon
Weather Warfare: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature
by Jerry E. Smith
Primitive peoples once shook their spears at the heavens and chanted to entice the gods to favor them with rain or otherwise change the weather. Around the turn of the century, experimenters began seeding clouds with various chemicals that sometimes encouraged a much-needed downpour. That was a hundred years ago.
Technology has advanced.
In Weather Warfare, Jerry E. Smith reveals technology so sophisticated that it can alter weather patterns, trigger earthquakes, shake volcanoes into eruption, and initiate tsunamis. Massively budgeted projects play with powerful environment-busting science, and the militaries of various nations are the biggest users…and abusers.
So potentially devastating are environmental modification (ENMOD) threats that U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) submitted legislation to Congress in 2001 that would have banned such systems. Other political leaders have similarly expressed concern that militaries are experimenting with and even deploying environment-altering technology that may be globally destructive.
Smith’s heavily researched and thoroughly documented book tugs the reader along like a novel, unveiling frightening technologies, conspiracies, and agendas that may be altering our lives and generating a host of negative environmental effects throughout the entire planet.
Weather Warfare is easily understood by the layman and avoids dense technical explanations. Even so, this reader would have been fascinated to see more technical detail in some areas, such as how earth-penetrating electromagnetic waves are theorized to interact with certain types of geology and cause earthquakes.
Mixed with the hard facts are some scary conspiracy theories that range from the highly believable to the outlandish, and Smith neither endorses nor dismisses them. (They’re all interesting anyway!)
Weather Warfare is an important book; required reading by those who wish to remain vigilant in their support of democracy (and survival!); and entertaining reading for those who enjoy their conspiracy theories frightening and laced with a heavy dose of truth.
—Lloyd Ritchey, author of Stormdragon