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Storm Strike
Where can you hide when mother nature unleashes her fury?
Oklahoma City, 2038. The Heartland of America is feeling the first pangs of a warming planet. Devastating crop losses, escalating food prices, and an endless wave of violent storms. Floods, hail, winds and lightning ravage the countryside along with an old killer with a new name.
They call them shredders. A new breed of tornado so powerful and deadly that a quasi-military organization called Storm Strike is assembled to combat them. Armed with Doppler-guided missiles fitted with the army’s latest class of thermobaric warheads, they declare an untried and unconventional kind of war.
Marta Astin finds herself on the front lines of that war as commander of a storm cruiser: an armored, all-terrain titan of a vehicle equipped to hunt down and destroy one of nature’s most sinister creations.
As she wages battle across the plains of Oklahoma she also finds herself at odds with an elusive and radical band of eco-terrorists who call themselves the Order of the Shining Winds; all while struggling with a debilitating mental illness that threatens her career, her sanity and possibly her very life.
It all ends in a spectacular and explosive confrontation as Marta and her crew fight for survival against the forces of both man and nature.
Oklahoma City, 2038. The Heartland of America is feeling the first pangs of a warming planet. Devastating crop losses, escalating food prices, and an endless wave of violent storms. Floods, hail, winds and lightning ravage the countryside along with an old killer with a new name.
They call them shredders. A new breed of tornado so powerful and deadly that a quasi-military organization called Storm Strike is assembled to combat them. Armed with Doppler-guided missiles fitted with the army’s latest class of thermobaric warheads, they declare an untried and unconventional kind of war.
Marta Astin finds herself on the front lines of that war as commander of a storm cruiser: an armored, all-terrain titan of a vehicle equipped to hunt down and destroy one of nature’s most sinister creations.
As she wages battle across the plains of Oklahoma she also finds herself at odds with an elusive and radical band of eco-terrorists who call themselves the Order of the Shining Winds; all while struggling with a debilitating mental illness that threatens her career, her sanity and possibly her very life.
It all ends in a spectacular and explosive confrontation as Marta and her crew fight for survival against the forces of both man and nature.
258 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2014
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Randy Henke
4 books1 followerRandy R. Henke is the author of the science fiction thriller, Storm Strike. He is currently hard at work promoting his debut novel while eagerly delving into research for his next project.
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May 5, 2015
This was a GoodRead Giveaway:
This book caught my attention as I am a fanatic for storms. Reminded me of the movie "Into the Storm" but as I started reading this I was not feeling This book caught my attention as I am a fanatic for storms. Reminded me of the movie "Into the Storm" but as I started reading this I was not feeling it. Some of the writing just seemed like the author was trying too hard. I got the impression that the author was trying to appear extremely educated. There were words I had to look up to understand what the author was trying to portray. I am about half way throught the book and it has gotten better. The story line has pulled me in. My opinion is this author has great ideas for a story. He needs to simplify things a bit.
So I wanted to add a tidbit after I finished this book. It actually got much better! This book really has a great idea behind it. This book has action, love, twists and turns. I felt the style of writing was a little off. When I am reading a book and I find words misspelled or the wrong word used frustrates me. Once I got passed all that this book was actually really good. If the writing would have been better I could see this book being a huge hit and actually turning into a great movie. Towards the end of your book I felt on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen. Even with my hard opinions of this book I would recommend this to a friend.
This book caught my attention as I am a fanatic for storms. Reminded me of the movie "Into the Storm" but as I started reading this I was not feeling This book caught my attention as I am a fanatic for storms. Reminded me of the movie "Into the Storm" but as I started reading this I was not feeling it. Some of the writing just seemed like the author was trying too hard. I got the impression that the author was trying to appear extremely educated. There were words I had to look up to understand what the author was trying to portray. I am about half way throught the book and it has gotten better. The story line has pulled me in. My opinion is this author has great ideas for a story. He needs to simplify things a bit.
So I wanted to add a tidbit after I finished this book. It actually got much better! This book really has a great idea behind it. This book has action, love, twists and turns. I felt the style of writing was a little off. When I am reading a book and I find words misspelled or the wrong word used frustrates me. Once I got passed all that this book was actually really good. If the writing would have been better I could see this book being a huge hit and actually turning into a great movie. Towards the end of your book I felt on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen. Even with my hard opinions of this book I would recommend this to a friend.
January 16, 2015
This was a GoodReads giveaway.
This near future climate change story takes place only a few years from today. I rather liked the whole premise of the story. It takes a pretty audacious mind to think one can disrupt a tornado with a military grade thermobaric missile. The shear scale of the opposing forces tells me that you can't make the physics work, but oh I want to be part of the team and push the button for the first try.
The flawed heroine seems a bit too easily set off in her mood swings, but this may have more to do with my extremely limited knowledge of bi-polar disorders.
In many respects a short story is good, but I really felt this story could use a better villain (or I should say increased contact with and a more development of the villian, so you have a chance to grow to hate (and sympathize?) with the villain) and more character development for all of the other players. Overall, it should have been a longer story.
Lastly, I loved seeing the author's smiling face in his bio. He looks to be just an ordinary guy. He just stuck me as someone I could instantly like pounding down a few cold ones with while grilling some burgers. I don't know why. I just do. Sorry, that had nothing to do with my review and was just a bit random.
Now go out and have a GoodReads.
This near future climate change story takes place only a few years from today. I rather liked the whole premise of the story. It takes a pretty audacious mind to think one can disrupt a tornado with a military grade thermobaric missile. The shear scale of the opposing forces tells me that you can't make the physics work, but oh I want to be part of the team and push the button for the first try.
The flawed heroine seems a bit too easily set off in her mood swings, but this may have more to do with my extremely limited knowledge of bi-polar disorders.
In many respects a short story is good, but I really felt this story could use a better villain (or I should say increased contact with and a more development of the villian, so you have a chance to grow to hate (and sympathize?) with the villain) and more character development for all of the other players. Overall, it should have been a longer story.
Lastly, I loved seeing the author's smiling face in his bio. He looks to be just an ordinary guy. He just stuck me as someone I could instantly like pounding down a few cold ones with while grilling some burgers. I don't know why. I just do. Sorry, that had nothing to do with my review and was just a bit random.
Now go out and have a GoodReads.
January 12, 2015
Fast paced action sequences are very believable with interesting non-stereotyped characters. It's scary as the plot and technological elements are so believable for the 2038 setting. This is an excellent first novel. My copy was obtained from Goodreads First Reads.
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