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Malacca Strait, 1947: A Dutch Merchant Vessel Mysteriously Sinks…
Wales, U.K, 2019: A Message in a Bottle Washes Ashore…
Nassau, A Potentially Lethal Discovery Awaits…
Malacca Strait, 1947
A sinister Morse code message, purportedly from a Dutch Merchant Vessel, the S.S. Ourang Medan, sailing somewhere near the Marshall Islands, is intercepted. The message is chilling; All officers including the captain are dead - lying in chartroom and bridge - Possibly whole crew are dead - I die.
Nothing further is ever heard…
Wales, U.K, 2020
GLENCOM agent and former environmental lawyer, Robert Spire, is heading across the damp, cold, sand of his local beach, having just visited the grave of his dead wife. As he reminisces and looks out into the surf, a spec of sunlight glinting off an object catches his eye. The object turns out to be a bottle, and he wades into the surf to retrieve it. Inside Spire discovers an old, rolled up parchment, a genuine fifty-year old message in a bottle…
Nassau, Bahamas.
Dubious cryptocurrency billionaire, Emilio Drax is overseeing a salvage operation, on his own sunken vessel, The Ocean Odyssey. After returning from the Malacca Strait, the ship mysteriously disappears under the blue Caribbean Sea, coming to rest on a reef just offshore of New Providence. There is no apparent explanation for the sinking, and the islanders talk of the ship’s cargo being cursed…
Time is Ticking…to a Global Disaster.
The Odyssey is lying in shallow waters, the nesting home of the island’s endangered Greenback Turtle. To monitor the situation, GLENCOM send Spire to the Bahamas to investigate. Spire takes a scuba dive down to inspect the sunken vessel, where he makes a startling discovery.
As the ramifications of the lethal discovery become understood, Spire is tasked to stop Drax, no matter what the cost…
Welcome to GLENCOM, an acronym for Global Environmental Command; a semi-secret, massively funded, British Government Department. The world is facing very real and increasingly dangerous environmental threats. GLENCOM and their most reliable agent, Robert Spire, have been created to deal with the most urgent and pressing ones…
Malacca Strait, 1947: A Dutch Merchant Vessel Mysteriously Sinks…
Wales, U.K, 2019: A Message in a Bottle Washes Ashore…
Nassau, A Potentially Lethal Discovery Awaits…
Malacca Strait, 1947
A sinister Morse code message, purportedly from a Dutch Merchant Vessel, the S.S. Ourang Medan, sailing somewhere near the Marshall Islands, is intercepted. The message is chilling; All officers including the captain are dead - lying in chartroom and bridge - Possibly whole crew are dead - I die.
Nothing further is ever heard…
Wales, U.K, 2020
GLENCOM agent and former environmental lawyer, Robert Spire, is heading across the damp, cold, sand of his local beach, having just visited the grave of his dead wife. As he reminisces and looks out into the surf, a spec of sunlight glinting off an object catches his eye. The object turns out to be a bottle, and he wades into the surf to retrieve it. Inside Spire discovers an old, rolled up parchment, a genuine fifty-year old message in a bottle…
Nassau, Bahamas.
Dubious cryptocurrency billionaire, Emilio Drax is overseeing a salvage operation, on his own sunken vessel, The Ocean Odyssey. After returning from the Malacca Strait, the ship mysteriously disappears under the blue Caribbean Sea, coming to rest on a reef just offshore of New Providence. There is no apparent explanation for the sinking, and the islanders talk of the ship’s cargo being cursed…
Time is Ticking…to a Global Disaster.
The Odyssey is lying in shallow waters, the nesting home of the island’s endangered Greenback Turtle. To monitor the situation, GLENCOM send Spire to the Bahamas to investigate. Spire takes a scuba dive down to inspect the sunken vessel, where he makes a startling discovery.
As the ramifications of the lethal discovery become understood, Spire is tasked to stop Drax, no matter what the cost…
Welcome to GLENCOM, an acronym for Global Environmental Command; a semi-secret, massively funded, British Government Department. The world is facing very real and increasingly dangerous environmental threats. GLENCOM and their most reliable agent, Robert Spire, have been created to deal with the most urgent and pressing ones…
274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 4, 2020
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About the author
Simon Rosser
43 books69 followersAuthor of the Robert Spire Eco- Sci-Fi Thriller Action Adventure series -
CliFi thriller TIPPING POINT, SciFi action-technothriller, IMPACT POINT, mystery thriller MELT ZONE and CATACLYSM of the ANCIENTS, Mystery Thriller CRYPTO, UFO Thrillers, The GALILEO PROJECT / COUNTDOWN / DISCLOSURE and Spire 7, THE VANISHED.
Also sci-fi alien invasion thrillers VAPORISED I and II
Espionage thriller RED MIST
SciFi thrillers SALIENT and SALIENT 2
Coming Soon - FUTURE WARS - Time travel adventure thriller will be coming out in the Fall 2025 - pre-order on Amazon now!
CliFi thriller TIPPING POINT, SciFi action-technothriller, IMPACT POINT, mystery thriller MELT ZONE and CATACLYSM of the ANCIENTS, Mystery Thriller CRYPTO, UFO Thrillers, The GALILEO PROJECT / COUNTDOWN / DISCLOSURE and Spire 7, THE VANISHED.
Also sci-fi alien invasion thrillers VAPORISED I and II
Espionage thriller RED MIST
SciFi thrillers SALIENT and SALIENT 2
Coming Soon - FUTURE WARS - Time travel adventure thriller will be coming out in the Fall 2025 - pre-order on Amazon now!
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March 9, 2023
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Robert Spire lives in Wales and London. "Since he’d been employed by the Global Environmental Command Unit or GLENCOM…He’d gone from working an office-based sedentary lawyer’s job to basically what amounted to an environmental secret agent."
One morning after visiting his wife's grave in Wales, he walks back during a sunny, windy day by the shoreline and spots something shiny in the water. It turns out to be a message bottle. "It didn’t look like any ordinary bottle however. The glass was thick and it appeared to be sealed with a cork or stopper."
When Spire gets it back to his house, he melts the old fashioned wax seal to reveal the message. "We need help. This is the S.S. Ourang Medan, Location, 400 nautical miles off the Marshall Islands. The crew are going crazy…fighting has broken out in the Mess…Captain is sick and crew members are, are dying…I die."
Finding the message creepy, Spire determines to take it with him to his upcoming meeting with Glencomm in London and have it checked out. Speaking with his colleagues and collaborating on intelligence, Spire is sent to the Bahamas to further investigate the situation.
A life-threatening, quick as a shark story ensues, involving the shady "Drax Corporation (which is) owned by the billionaire playboy, Emilio Drax. He is about to open a large casino out in Nevada and a hotel here in London. His business dealings are, shall we say…shady to say the least."
"If his ego wasn’t already big enough, he’s jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon in a big way. He released a coin called, Draxcoin". This cryptocurrency allows Glencomm to purchase enough to buy the way in to Drax new Casino opening.
The importance of attending the Casino opening harks back to the Dutch registered freighter, the SS Ourang Medan and it's final resting place. "The ship had left the Chinese port of Xiamen two weeks earlier and was on route to Costa Rica. Stored beneath the decks in her hold was a cargo of coffee, raw sugar cane, twenty-five gold bars and a single large steel container, encased in a wooden crate, which had taken ten men to load when it had arrived from McMurdo base in the Antarctica."
In an early morning foray to confirm the contents of the ship, Spire and his companion, Desmond, are almost caught by Drax' divers and the plot thickens.
The best part of Crypto is the inability to guess the end. I loved Rosser's combination of a thriller, sci-fi and archeology themes mixed together. I had a hard time putting this one down. I'm glad I already have the next one.
Robert Spire lives in Wales and London. "Since he’d been employed by the Global Environmental Command Unit or GLENCOM…He’d gone from working an office-based sedentary lawyer’s job to basically what amounted to an environmental secret agent."
One morning after visiting his wife's grave in Wales, he walks back during a sunny, windy day by the shoreline and spots something shiny in the water. It turns out to be a message bottle. "It didn’t look like any ordinary bottle however. The glass was thick and it appeared to be sealed with a cork or stopper."
When Spire gets it back to his house, he melts the old fashioned wax seal to reveal the message. "We need help. This is the S.S. Ourang Medan, Location, 400 nautical miles off the Marshall Islands. The crew are going crazy…fighting has broken out in the Mess…Captain is sick and crew members are, are dying…I die."
Finding the message creepy, Spire determines to take it with him to his upcoming meeting with Glencomm in London and have it checked out. Speaking with his colleagues and collaborating on intelligence, Spire is sent to the Bahamas to further investigate the situation.
A life-threatening, quick as a shark story ensues, involving the shady "Drax Corporation (which is) owned by the billionaire playboy, Emilio Drax. He is about to open a large casino out in Nevada and a hotel here in London. His business dealings are, shall we say…shady to say the least."
"If his ego wasn’t already big enough, he’s jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon in a big way. He released a coin called, Draxcoin". This cryptocurrency allows Glencomm to purchase enough to buy the way in to Drax new Casino opening.
The importance of attending the Casino opening harks back to the Dutch registered freighter, the SS Ourang Medan and it's final resting place. "The ship had left the Chinese port of Xiamen two weeks earlier and was on route to Costa Rica. Stored beneath the decks in her hold was a cargo of coffee, raw sugar cane, twenty-five gold bars and a single large steel container, encased in a wooden crate, which had taken ten men to load when it had arrived from McMurdo base in the Antarctica."
In an early morning foray to confirm the contents of the ship, Spire and his companion, Desmond, are almost caught by Drax' divers and the plot thickens.
The best part of Crypto is the inability to guess the end. I loved Rosser's combination of a thriller, sci-fi and archeology themes mixed together. I had a hard time putting this one down. I'm glad I already have the next one.
October 2, 2020
Did not disappoint!
I really enjoyed this story and found the characters and settings interesting. It was very engaging and there is quite a bit of heart-pounding excitement. All in all, a good read worth your time.
I want to preface this bit by saying I think I had an ARC copy of this book. There were a lot of errors that a good proofread would fix and some rambling paragraphs (most notably about how airplanes stop and climate change) that didn't really are anything to the story and should have been cut.
I really enjoyed this story and found the characters and settings interesting. It was very engaging and there is quite a bit of heart-pounding excitement. All in all, a good read worth your time.
I want to preface this bit by saying I think I had an ARC copy of this book. There were a lot of errors that a good proofread would fix and some rambling paragraphs (most notably about how airplanes stop and climate change) that didn't really are anything to the story and should have been cut.
February 9, 2020
Good story...,
It was detracted from (for me) by bad spelling, some missing words and sometimes the same word or sentence repeated twice. Just formatting errors that could have been avoided by having the text read and edited by others before release. Other than that, it was a good story and I will be looking out for others in the series.
It was detracted from (for me) by bad spelling, some missing words and sometimes the same word or sentence repeated twice. Just formatting errors that could have been avoided by having the text read and edited by others before release. Other than that, it was a good story and I will be looking out for others in the series.
February 27, 2021
Crypto: Fast Paced Action Packed Thriller Novel (Spire Novel Book 5) by Si Rosser is an exciting read with touches of 007 gadgets. From Wales to Nassau to Las Vegas Spire and friends take on one of the worst megalomaniacs and his highly trained bodyguards. Looking forward to others in this series.
September 15, 2020
Book was very good and exciting. Didn’t like the bad language and there was a lot of misspelled words, words used twice and the wrong words used in a sentence. But the story itself was very well written with a good plot line and plenty of action.
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August 17, 2021Great read
The second. time read and just as exciting as the 1st time around. I am looking forward to the next story from Mr. Rosser.
The second. time read and just as exciting as the 1st time around. I am looking forward to the next story from Mr. Rosser.
July 18, 2023
I really enjoyable book - I now plan to go back to the start of the series. Robert Spire is a true legal weapon!
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