The Eighth Day by Tom Avitabile is a mysterious maybe-conspiracy/action thriller which unusually, has a Science Advisor as the head of its team of oddball threat-thwarting experts (usually it's ex-CIA/FBI/military guys when it isn't some unlucky academic who's secretly stumbled onto some grand historical secret worth killing for). This is free courtesy of newbie independent imprint The Fiction Studio, which is run by ex-Big-6 editor Lou Aronica.
Currently free @
B&N and
Amazon UK, likely to drop in the
main store and may show up at Sony as well.
Description
A chemical engineer sets in motion a horrendous explosion killing hundreds of commuters and himself.
Hollywood’s hottest sex symbol assassinates a sitting senator.
A grandmother stages a sophisticated attack on a train causing massive damage.
An airplane full of Silicon Valley’s brightest is blown up while refueling.
A series of deadly, unrelated events or the unlikely start of an insidious new terror network?
As Science Advisor to the President, William “Wild Bill” Hiccock is tasked with assembling a team to identify and stop the threat, whether homegrown or foreign. His team – a retired Navy admiral, a wise-guy computer hacker sprung from federal prison, and his ex-wife, a leading behavioral psychologist – must identify and destroy their elusive adversary who always seems to be a step ahead."