Jim Nuffield
Writer — Engineer — Dreamer
Prometheus Red
A Near-Future International Thriller
The world learns that Planet Earth will be destroyed in 700 years. One woman fights a vicious battle for her life to reveal a terrible secret to the world, forcing the US President, desperate to claim her place in history, to choose between two enormous evils.
It is 2030, four years after the thrilling events of Prometheus Blue, where we learned that a sun-sized star fragment will destroy the Earth in 700 years. US President Amanda Lexington believes she can rally the world to build enough nuclear explosive power to destroy it.
Former con artist Maddy Stone lives a life of luxury in rural New Zealand. Her husband David Destine, founder of the anti-nuclear Destiny Movement, influences Lexington to secretly test the globe’s nuclear arsenal on Mars. Success would set Lexington’s place in history as humanity’s savior. Failure would condemn Earth to poverty, environmental wreckage and global conflict.
But Lexington’s plan comes with a tragic complication: space entrepreneur Jeffrey Knowles has a manned base on Mars, temporarily hidden from the Lexington and the world.
When Maddy is betrayed by David, he only man she has ever trusted, she must fight a desperate battle for her life to reveal his secret to the world. When Lexington learns of the base, she realizes even success has a terrible price, forcing her to choose between two enormous evils in a heart-pounding conclusion.
Here’s a sample from Prometheus Red.
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The Anatomy of a Con
My new book MAKING DIAMONDS is the story of a troubled young woman who kills in self-defense. But her attacker was the leader of Connecticut’s biggest, meanest biker gang and not even the police can protect her from their vengeance. Here's a sample. She runs away to...
Finding a Twin Earth – Part 2
Finding a Twin Earth - Part 2 - The Odds Part Two Image credit - ESAHubble, M. Kornmesser In this blog and an earlier post, I’m discussing the process of finding a twin Earth. This is part of a lengthy series devoted to the following: How are humans going to power the...
Submitting My Manuscript
Submitting my Manuscript As I described in my previous blog entry – Writing My First Book – after actually getting the sucker written, the real challenge begins. It starts with the Query Letter. But I soon learned that none of it was quite good enough yet before...
Seeking Agent Representation
Late Summer / Early Fall 2023, I will be embarking on my quest for agent representation for Making Diamonds -- My debut psychological crime thriller, set in present-day Manhattan. Soon after will I will release my debut near future thriller -- Prometheus Blue, the beginning of an 800-year series about the end of the world. Prometheus Red will emerge hot on Blue's heels.