Craig Kreident #2 Fallout (41 page)

AUTHORS’ NOTE

Although the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, the Device Assembly Facility, Nellis Air Force Range, Groom Lake, and other places in this novel actually exist, the authors have taken liberty in detailing the descriptions, not only to add to this story, but to prevent any unwarranted breaches of national security.
 
No nuclear storage compound exists at Omega Mountain.
 
The authors have never had actual access to the Device Assembly Facility or the supposed Groom Lake installation known as Area 51, and all characters and circumstances depicted herein are purely the product of the authors’ imaginations.
 
All details involving security, nuclear weapons, and other devices can readily be found in declassified public sources.

All circumstances and characters in this novel are fictional.
 
The views and opinons, expressed or implied, are solely those of the authors and are not meant to reflect the views of the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. Air Force, the FBI, or the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Also by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

ILL WIND

A supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling oil. Desperate to avert environmental & PR disaster, the oil company uses an oil-eating microbe to break up the spill. But the microbe, becomes airborne . . . and mutates to consume petrocarbons: oil, gas, synthetic fabrics, plastics. When all plastic begins to dissolve, it’s too late. . .

IGNITION

NASA—you have a problem.
 
In this high-tech action adventure from Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, terrorists seize control of the Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle
Atlantis
and its crew hostage on the launchpad.
 
But astronaut “Iceberg” Friese, grounded from the mission because of a broken foot, is determined to slip through the swamps and rocket facilities around Cape Canaveral and pull the plug on the terrorists.
 
With their years of experience in the field, Anderson and Beason have packed
Ignition
with insider information to create an extremely plausible, action-packed thriller.

ASSEMBLERS OF INFINITY

Nebula Award Nominee
.
 
The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon—a massive alien structure is erecting
itself
, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and take shape, and its creators begin to multiply.

Is this the first strike in an alien invasion from the stars?
 
Or has human nanotechnology experimentation gone awry, triggering an unexpected infestation?
 
As riots rage across a panicked Earth, scientists scramble to learn the truth before humanity’s home is engulfed by the voracious machines.

VIRTUAL DESTRUCTION—Craig Kreident #1

At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California—one of the nation’s premier nuclear-weapons design facilities—high-level physicists operate within heavy security to model and test new warhead designs.
 
But politics can be just as dangerous as the weapons they design, and with gigantic budgets on the line, scientific egos, and personality clashes, research can turn deadly.

When a prominent and abrasive nuclear-weapons researcher is murdered inside a Top Security zone, FBI investigator Craig Kreident is brought in on the case—but his FBI security clearance isn’t the same as a Department of Energy or Department of Defense clearance, and many of the clues are “sanitized” before he arrives.
 
Kreident finds that dealing with red tape and political in-fighting might be more difficult than solving a murder.

Written by two insiders who have worked at Lawrence Livermore,
Virtual Destruction
is not only a gripping thriller and complex mystery, but a vivid portrayal of an actual US nuclear-design facility.

“Prisons”

On a harsh prison planet, the warden and the staff are as much prisoners as the convicts, but a risky prison break might free them all.

Also by Kevin J. Anderson

RESURRECTION, INC.

In the future, the dead walk the streets—Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it.
 
A microprocessor brain, synthetic heart, artificial blood, and a fresh corpse can return as a Servant for anyone with the price.
 
Trained to obey any command, Servants have no minds of their own, no memories of their past lives.
 
Supposedly.

Then came Danal.
 
He was murdered, a sacrifice from the ever-growing cult of neo-Satanists who sought heaven in the depths of hell.
 
But as a Servant, Danal began to remember.
 
He learned who had killed him, who he was, and what Resurrection, Inc. had in mind for the human race.

CLIMBING OLYMPUS

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government.
 
Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek’s
adin
, surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars.
 
But they are still exiles, unable ever again to breathe Earth’s air.
 
And they are still pawns.

For the
adin
exist to terraform Mars for human colonists, not for themselves.
 
Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their world, killed by their own success.
 
Desperate,
adin
leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars Project, knowing his people will perish in a glorious, doomed campaign of mayhem—unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle to save both the Mars Project and the race she created.

BLINDFOLD

Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers.
 
Parentless, trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas, a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty.
 
Truthsayers are Justice—infallible, beyond appeal.
 
But sometimes they are wrong.

Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren trusts the young Truthsayer Kalliana…until, impossibly, she convicts him.
 
Still shaken from a previous reading, Kalliana doesn’t realize her power is fading.
 
But soon the evidence becomes impossible to ignore.
 
The Truthsayers’ Veritas has been diluted and someone in the colony is selling smuggled telepathy. Justice isn’t blind—it’s been
blinded
.

From an immortal’s orbital prison to the buried secrets of a regal fortress, Kalliana and Troy seek the conspiracy that threatens to destroy their world from within.
 
For without truth and justice, Atlas will certainly fall…

CAPTAIN NEMO:
 
The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius

The life story of the enigmatic dark hero most readers know from Jules Verne’s novels 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.
 
A boyhood friend of Verne’s, Nemo goes off to explore the world, adventuring aboard sailing ships, crossing Africa in a balloon, exploring deep caverns that lead to the center of the Earth, and eventually building the
Nautilus
, the terrible submarine in which he wages war against war.