Denial of Sunlight

Denial of Sunlight
by Robert Troy

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Author: Robert Troy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-12-01
ISBN: 1432751263
Number of pages: 340
Publisher: Outskirts Press

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Book Review: New energy method created and sold to China
Summary: 5 Stars

In 1987 Keith Sutter, age 27, was working on high temperature super conductors knowing he had discovered a new source of energy that would revolutionize the worlds power supply and reduce the dependence on current sources such as coal, oil, and nuclear methods that have been strangling the worlds population. Keith decided he would keep this new source to himself. He did not want to have to share this great energy source at this time since all his work and the income from it would have to be shared with the government and the university that they backed. He wanted all the credit and income for himself. He would wait until he was free of all that bound him to his current employer.

Twenty years later in 2007, all the plans that Keith had been mulling over started to take shape. He had brought Phil into his plans even though Keith felt he was running the show. They started advertising for employees to work in a new factory working on electrical semi-conductors. The old factory they bought was in a bad section of town and they re-configured the insides to their needs. No one but Keith and Phil knew what the factory was researching and physically working to produce.

Katherine Murkowitz needed a job. She had experience in the electrical field so she applied when Keith and Phil advertised for a person with such experience. She was so tired of applying for jobs but with the economy being so terrible, the jobs in most fields were non-existent. When she was called back for a second interview she was elated and then was finally hired to a job description she didn't know much about but Keith and Phil were happy with her interviews.

Keith had sold the company to China figuring that he could get the best financial advantage with them rather than try to sell this amazing discovery to his own country, the United States. The Chinese arranged for the main employees to come to China for several weeks to further the research and production. When they arrived in China they were shown around a new huge factory built deep underground, completely shut off from the rest of the world. It was self-contained as far as energy, climate, and especially secrecy. Each of the company workers from the United States were paired up with a counterpart Chinese worker so they could learn from each other. Katherine was paired with Sun Xing. They had guards outside their rooms and were accompanied everywhere they went even when they took the few allowed outside visits elsewhere in China. When the group learned they had to stay in China for two years, not the several weeks promised originally, they all got very wary of what was going on and were not sure they wanted to commit to that long a time.

As days, weeks, and months went by, it was extremely hard for most of them, even the Chinese who also had to stay in the facility constantly. The only contact they had with their families in the United States was by email, and that only after being censored by the Chinese, incoming and outgoing. The only relief Katherine had was a trip several days a week that Xing had worked out for her to go to a tea house, again with another watcher so nothing could escape this secret facility.

Here I will stop with my review since you have the basic idea of what this wonderful fast action story is about and, as the reader, you must realize you will be going a mile a minute to settle your curiosity of what will occur next. Robert Troy has written a real thriller that is very plausible for our times. With the search for better and cleaner methods of energy to power our world, we can see how such a story could indeed be possible with just one single idea being successful.

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Summary of Denial of Sunlight

Chinese earthquakes, Special Forces ops, big-league physics, skullduggery in the halls of power %u2013 here%u2019s one powerhouse debut. Troy writes stealth fiction, smart, swift, and subversive. Start it at nighttime? You%u2019ll be up %u2018til dawn.

Paul Evans, co-author of The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Seeking to reestablish herself after a professional debacle, Katherine Murkowitz joins a small, eccentric electronics firm. The firm%u2019s sale to a Chinese company begins a whirlwind of layered deceptions, international intrigue, and subtle romance, as the potentially world-saving discovery of Keith Sutter, the firm%u2019s founder, becomes the focus of two great nations. Preparing to stun the world with their coming independence from fossil fuels and subsequent economic dominance, the Chinese secretly produce Sutter%u2019s solar-electric cells in an underground facility nested in the Qinling Mountains. Their excess purchases of petroleum as a buffer against an international reaction drive up world energy prices, capturing the attention of young Jim Newberry at the CIA. The American response, a Special Forces operation to deny the Chinese this technology, ensnares unwitting people and other nations to earth shaking effect.

The revelations continue in Emergence.

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