Mine!

by Robert Macklin

Please note, this is only a sample of the novel - the first three chapters.It is 2016 and David Cade, the London-based head of an immensely wealthy Australian mining family, is thrown into the vortex of the climate-change struggle. Shattered by the death of his beloved wife, he lashes out at the environistas, the new urban terrorists he blames for her death. He joins his ruthless CEO William Schoenheim in an international campaign of bribery and corruption to fight environmental reforms and the opposition to coal. Cade travels the world in the company’s private jet pressuring the UN and national governments. European regulators are seduced; the UN is subverted; Australian politicians are suborned. Rightwing US leaders reveal their plan – the Red Book - a terrifying military response to climate catastrophe and mass migration.His daughter Rosalind and her husband Jeremy are earnest environmentalists. As extreme weather events escalate, Cade’s activities tear his family apart.Ironically, it is Cade’s violent confrontation with the people he most despises - the leader of the environistas and his fanatical supporters – that begins his redemption. With refugees taking to their boats, an assassin on his trail and the shocking abduction of his daughter’s child, Cade is torn by extremists on both sides.He is faced with an impossible choice. But he must make it.And time has just run out.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2011