Verdigris Ebook

by Gary R. Moor

Lillith Adams, bronze sculptor and ex-marine, has the opportunity of a creating a monument to St. Francis of Assisi for the Archdiocese of New York. She has also obligated herself for the past seven years to taking care of her tenants in the renovated century-old building she lives in and owns. She is certain none of them could make it without her help. Dealing with their problems threatens failure, which would destroy her reputation as an artist and bankrupt her. However, her life and that of all human beings takes a decisive turn when a crate is delivered to her studio. Rather than the clay she ordered from Prague, a sarcophagus lies within. When the being inside emerges from a two millennium sleep, Lillith discovers it will grant her any wish she desires. But inadvertently her wish will end civilization as we know it, for this is no genie, it is more the Golem of Hebrew legend. It will fulfill her wish completely to the letter, no matter what it takes, or at what cost.

360 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2015

About the author

Native Oregonian, born in Salem, raised mostly in Portland near Mt. Tabor in the Montavilla district. Dad fought in WWII with the 2nd Marine Division, then again in Korea as a 105mm howitzer artilleryman; a telephone lineman as I grew up. Mom came from Sweden before the war, on Olympic skating team in the 50s, a people person and the finest waitress I've known. Both have passed. I consider Astoria my hometown where I graduated from Astoria Sr. High School - go Fishermen! Played trumpet and soprano bugle - Lancer and Sunsetters drum and bugle corps. Graduated from Clatsop Comm. College, then OSU. Commercial salmon fisherman, Fuller Brush Man, Air Force pilot with the 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron and the 376th Strategic Wing; became a father to two children, worked as a contractor for 20 years, now I'm an author. Best and most important job I've had is the one as father.

Reviews

[Richard Appleyard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great sci-fi book set in Portland, Oregon