Unseen Forces
"...a helluva thrill ride full of conspiracies within conspiracies."
– Bob Misiorowski, producer, Tombstone
"...destined to become a classic in the action/mystery/quest genre."
– Randall Fitzgerald, author, Cosmic Test Tube
" ...seems destined for the big screen...but the book's always better than the movie!"
– Terry Perkins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Maverick archeologist Dr. Sky Wilder has never been able to prove any of his outside-the-box fringe theories... until now. When he breaks what had been an impenetrable code, he unearths a long-buried Egyptian stone tablet in Arizona’s Red Rock country.
Unseen Forces has suspense and action peppered with humor and romance, and thematically riffs on the notion of hidden power -- as exercised by nature, by corporate and governmental corruption, and by the unexplained mysteries of our collective past.
The plot
The Netherlands, 1943. Hitler has ordered a crackdown on Freemasonry. The Deutsche Ahnenerbe Verein, the SS occult bureau, learns of a Masonic document, one of their most closely guarded secrets, containing the location of three hidden tablets tablets that hold the key to locating The Book of Spells and a formula for physical immortality.
As the SS closes in on a Dutch farmhouse, a Masonic elder destroys the
document, encoding its information via a one-time pad. Before the Nazis
can torture the
code key from him, a crippled American P-38 Lightning carrying two 1600 pound
bombs crashes into the farmhouse, killing the mason and most of the Nazis.
An SS colonel survives with the one-time pad, but with the Mason dead,
the code
is unbreakable.
Arizona, 2004. Maverick archeologist DR. SKY WILDER falls
asleep one night and lucidly dreams a breakthrough to a one-time pad cipher
code he obtained after
breaking into a Florence pensione. The code leads him to a long-buried Egyptian
stone tablet in Arizona's Red Rock country. Sky believes the stela is one
of three hidden in the world, and that together they hold the key to locate
the
Book of Spells, an ancient Egyptian alchemical text containing a formula for
physical immortality. Going public with the startling discovery would exonerate
Sky's tarnished reputation, but he wants to keep the find quiet, for he knows
that powerful people would do anything to possess such an artifact. Opposing
covert agencies, however, are already monitoring Sky, so the secret is out
and the deadly race is on to obtain all three tablets.
Sky suffers from claustrophobia and a fear of darkness, unfortunate traits
for a man who constantly faces the cramped, unknown blackness of the netherworld.
While he's willing to meet these fears that emanate from deep recesses of
his psyche, he's never defeated them, and in fact is nearly vanquished
by their
power
as he struggles to escape capture in the caves and tunnels of the Verde Valley.
An unmarried outdoorsman in his thirties driven by endless curiosity, he
doesn't seek the immortality others will kill for; he's already found
his own fountain
of youth: his work.
GENERAL KLAYMEN, commander of a mysterious army unit, wants his agency to
acquire the magical texts. He tasks DIANA, the U.S. military's most accurate
remote
viewer -- a psychic spy -- to keep Sky Wilder alive at all costs. A former
covert agent
manipulated and prostituted in the name of God and country by a former boss,
Diana left field work in a troubled emotional state and retreated to the
inner confines of psychic espionage, in part, to heal herself. It's with
apprehension
that she finds herself recruited back into an undercover intelligence capacity,
hoping the mission acts as a final healing catharsis, helping her to regain
ownership of her sexuality and vanquish her flesh and blood demons firsthand.
