Free (DRM-free) Curse the Names by Robert Arellano [Literary Noir Technothriller]

[ATDrake]

Curse the Names by Edgar Award-nominated author and musician Robert Arellano (SYKM, Wikipedia) is his standalone literary noir technothriller with weird psychological suspense elements, described as a mix between Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone, set in modern-day New Mexico, where a reporter at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (of Manhattan Project fame) believes he can prevent an accident that will trigger an atomic apocalypse, if it weren't for all the strange people getting in his way, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Akashic Books, who are generously running a holiday advent calendar promotion (their books are couponable at Kobo, BTW, and they do the excellent Akashic Noir mystery anthology series).

Currently free until midnight December 2nd directly @ the publisher's promotional blogpost (DRM-free ePub & Mobi available worldwide), and you can read more about the book on its regular catalogue page.

Description
High on a Mesa in the Mountains of New Mexico, a small town hides a dreadful secret. On a morning very soon there will be an accident that triggers a terrible chain reaction, and the world we know will be wiped out.

James Oberhelm, a reporter at Los Alamos National Laboratory, already sees the devastation, like the skin torn off a moment that is yet to be. He believes he can prevent an apocalypse, but first James must escape the devices of a sensuous young blood tech, a lecherous old hippie, a predator in a waking nightmare, and a forsaken adobe house high away in the Sangre de Cristo mountains whose dark history entwines them all.

A massive bomb is ticking beneath the sands of the Southwest, and time is running out to send a warning. James has to find a way to pass along the message—even if it ruins him.

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