Towering black obelisks have appeared in five different locations around the Mediterranean, standing like gods over the land. The man who has commissioned their construction claims they are nothing more than tributes to their respective countries, but CIA operative Gabrielle "Gabe" Lincoln believes they may be something far more ominous-and if she is right, humanity is about to be plunged into a living nightmare from which there is no escape.
Toby's stories have been praised by Midwest Book Review, Library Journal and Cemetery Dance as well as by New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry, Douglas Preston, Jonathan Maberry and Steve Alten. He has been featured in The Big Thrill magazine and on Internet radio, blogs and newspapers.
Inexplicably drawn to all things dark and macabre, at about the age of twelve he began penning short stories and publishing his own movie monster magazine.
An Air Force brat who never lived in one place more than two years, after high school Toby did an eight-year stint in the U.S. Navy and ended up on the east coast. He has since worked as a cab driver, a pizza delivery man, a phone solicitor, a shipyard technician, a government contractor, a retail music salesman, a bookseller, a cell phone salesman and a recording studio engineer.
Toby later earned a B.A. in English and became a full-time graphic designer and newspaper reporter, publishing hundreds of stories with the Associated Press and his local paper. He has since been published in The Pedestal Magazine, Voluted Tales magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Scary Monsters Magazine, and websites like eHow.com.
Owing to the inspiration of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Toby became an author of what he likes to call "high-octane sci-fi, fantasy and horror" and has published several books. He is currently producing his first movie, SKINWALKERS, for which he wrote the screenplay.
Toby is also a songwriter and musician and lives with his family near the Great Dismal Swamp in northeastern North Carolina.
This was an intense, action packed, full of suspense thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. The end of this book has me really excited to start the last book in this trilogy. Fans of James Rollins, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Jeremy Robinson will have a blast reading Toby Tate' s books too.
It's like one of the largest, scariest, longest roller coaster rides you've always wanted to try, but just never had the nerve; and then you did. First, your flying straight up towards the heavens with no clue how high it goes, until suddenly your stopping at the top, it hesitates a few seconds, then down you fly, straight down, faster, faster, faster, your terribly scared, but there's a bit of the "thrill" starting to appear as your heart beats stronger, until...you see a partial, what could be an angled looking curve up ahead, and your heart skips a few beats as the car speeds up, closer and closer until the curve appears in its entirety. It's an amazingly long twist, slightly tilted towards a spirialed curve you've ever seen, OMG NO.....
And that's as far as I go, you're on your own from here, enjoy.