Author Description

"Red Mercury Rising is an observant and readable thriller of crime and intrigue with memorable scenes, sharply-drawn characters, and mounting suspense." Red Mercury Rising is a political and psychological thriller. The Second American Civil War has broken out. The United States is no more. Dakota is in a death struggle with Pacifica and Dakota is losing. Stella Johnson is on a race to find the red mercury bomb to deliver final victory. But her psychotic brother Billy is never far away. Stella must get the deadly substance before Pacifica launches its final battle before her treacherous brother kills her.Red Mercury Rising is a book of shadows. The first theme is how we emerge from the shadows of young confusion. Stella and Billy struggle to find herself in a dangerous world with few guideposts. The second theme lies in the shadows of abnormal psychology. The world within us is more frightening than the world outside of us. Red Mercury Rising tells the story of love and hope but not before it visits the depths of depravity. The back story of Red Mercury Rising is politics, where evil is the shadow of good and all ideologies are filled with tragedy and contradictions.Red Mercury Rising is based on the tamám shud case where an unidentified man was found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948. He had a scrap of paper in his pocket with the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished." Red mercury refers to the hoax compound used to create nuclear bombs.