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The body looked like all the others: a female bound at the wrists
and ankles, blood-oozing welts criss-crossing her buttocks, crushed
larynx; most of all, her palate was pierced with that wickedly
shaped fishing hook for controlling her while she endured the
unspeakable. Yet, one thing distinguished her from the other
corpses: she was thawing in Gus Bolderjack's favorite chair.
Bolderjack, a psychotherapist, had been an exceptional profiler who
couldn't stay out of the action. He'd bait serial killers into
stalking him, and then snare them by hook or by crook. Labeled hero
by some and psycho shrink by others, one thing was clear: his
methods worked. Then, after losing a feud with U. S. Attorney
Carrie Sullivan-Bledsoe over a murderer's plea bargain he departed
the field to join his lover in her high-end Sun Valley resort
clinic, tending to the emotional needs of the rich and richer. That
works for a while until Sullivan-Bledsoe, now a state attorney
general, loses her son to a kidnapper at nearly the same time a
powerful tabloid publisher's niece disappears. Bolderjack gets
sucked into the fray, where he finds himself in a universe ruled by
political ambition and intriguing, double-dealing characters,
including those he's trying to help. The further he pushes into the
web the more venom he encounters and the more he has to face his
own shortcomings. To top it off he becomes the target of two
gruesome serial killers sharing goals and a lust for vengeance, and
the only way to save himself is to punch through the politics and
get the killers before they get him.
It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than
the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. The world's largest
super-volcano located underneath the United States' Yellowstone
National Park is set to blow. (Actual report from The UK's Daily
Mail) *A scientist on a suicide mission... *A Faustian bargain with
a mysterious life form... *A brain damaged boy is biologically
re-engineered... *A ghostly shaman bearing visions of disaster...
*A rash of murderous behavior in two small towns... *A cavern
concealing clandestine maneuvers... *A vast, deep reservoir of
fiery molten rock threatening the heart of North America... When
biological psychologist Tom Havyn sets out to kill himself at his
recently inherited ranch near the small berg of Glensford, Idaho,
he unwittingly puts humanity on a trajectory to disaster. Blaming
himself for his son Travis's massive brain trauma, Havyn makes a
Faustian bargain with an exotic stranger who possesses the
technology to repair and even enhance the damaged tissue. Moreover,
the new traits could be passed on, making Travis the key to a
breathtaking leap in human evolution. Soon, Havyn finds himself
acting as a Judas goat for an antigovernment paramilitary
organization. His newfound ability to predict disaster turns him
into a modern day messiah who draws thousands of followers into a
trap set by the paramilitary group with plans to use them as
carriers for a highly infectious designer virus. Simultaneously,
the group adulterates the U.S. food supply. Converging events,
including earthquakes, random killings, and food shortages create a
nationwide panic of monumental proportions. Lost in the maelstrom
is the fact that an extinction level event looms in the background.
The vast, deep reservoir of fiery, molten rock that feeds cyclical
cataclysmic eruptions at Yellowstone is nearing the level of the
last supervolcano, which occurred 600,000 years ago. Only this
time, one man has his finger on the volcano's hair trigger. In the
bargain to save his son, Havyn is central to unleashing hell on
civilization, to scorch much of the earth clean and make room for a
new sort of human race represented by his biologically
re-engineered son. Armageddon Yellowstone: Hell Unleashed is a
gripping story of human emotion and behavior under the cloud of
annihilation.(
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