Edge of the Void

"Edge of the Void" is the story of an eccentric Norwegian physicist who, in an attempt to develop a particle beam to dissolve cancerous tumors, has instead fabricated a weapon of unimaginable horror. During an attempt to transfer the device to a colleague who may be able to tame the monster she's created, it is accidentally destroyed in the same explosion that serves as the means of her suicide. Unfortunately, the plans for the machine survive and are compromised by a clandestine organization of eco-terrorists bent on using the invention's power to project its will, regardless of the cost or consequence, on a population they believe is determined to befoul its own habitat - Earth. A team of outwardly formidable but inwardly vulnerable protagonists reluctantly accepts the assignment to wrest the machine from the fanatics, and the depraved mercenary who leads them, and we join the chase as they rush headlong to unravel the identity and motives of their tormentors and confront the probability of oblivion. "Edge of the Void" is a near-future techno-thriller, international in scope, that pulls the reader along atop a peripatetic roller coaster of hope and hard landings to a spectacular good vs. evil confrontation at the climax and a Pyrrhic victory by an unlikely hero.