Tranquility In Darkness

by Gregory Urbach

In the summer of 2049, Governor Thomas McKinsey engineered a coup d’etat to declare the moon a republic. Five months later, his rebels were dead and he was dying. With the planet below engaged in a prolonged global struggle, McKinsey programmed the computers of Tranquility to carry out his strategic vision of a united world, even if the unification needed to be established at a terrible cost. As an afterthought, he instructed the colony’s advanced computer systems to raise the moon’s only surviving resident, a baby destined to grow up on an isolated moonbase with machines as his only companions.Now its 20 years later, and having defeated the invasion forces of the Northern Alliance, the young governor of the rebel Lunar Republic must seek a new path to Tranquility’s destiny. But in the aftermath of the invasion, Grey is still suffering from combat injuries, the moonbase is populated by hostile prisoners, and the leadership of the Congress-In-Council has marked him for assassination. And then he discovers a far more imminent danger, an ancient menace that threatens the entire world.Tranquility In Darkness begins with the journey of Governor Thomas McKinsey to a strange alien base where he discovers that two feuding civilizations are at war over Earth’s future, one seeking to use the planet’s resources, another bent on denying them. Twenty-four years later, Grey Waters and a small group of lunar recruits must struggle with the fateful decision Thomas McKinsey was forced to make. With many enemies and few promising options, the young man born on the moon and raised by computers embarks upon a journey of his own, a daring scheme that will inevitably end in war, betrayal, and a sacrifice in blood – probably is own.Each ‘Waters of the Moon’ book has been written to stand alone or be viewed as part of a continuing adventure. The stories take place against a detailed historical background and are noted for action sequences, subtle humor and philosophical insights. Tranquility In Darkness is the fifth of the nine books. The first four Tranquility’s Child, Tranquility’s End, Tranquility’s Heirs and Tranquility Besieged.

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2010