The Stranded Ones

by Jay B. Gaskill

Hugh McCahan is in the information a technology spy, a thief of secrets. After the collapse of world patent laws sparked a black market in high-tech secrets, intellectual property became worth killing for. Among the urban legends of his tiny colonies of stranded aliens that are brokering a technological goldmine.

One day Hugh feeds a homeless man at a diner, and is told about an explosion in Antarctica, an international cover-up and a well-guarded government warehouse in New Jersey. When Hugh finds out that the rumors of aliens are true, he is reunited with the charismatic Australian Jack Falstaff, who has been keeping a most deadly secret and one that could spell either the beginning or the end of both of them.

205 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jay B. Gaskill is a well-known California trial and appellate lawyer who served as a Public Defender until 1999, but left his “life of crime” to devote more time to his writing projects. He loves humor and philosophy equally; science and science fiction interchangeably; Manhattan and the western wilderness irresistibly. His fiction works are peopled with likeable heroes and recognizable villains whose struggles are disturbed by dichotomous themes. He has completed two thrillers and is working on a number of other fiction works.

Reviews

[Jay B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Self promotion. This is an e book to take with you on your handheld device. This is a world where the collapse of world patent laws has ignited a market in high-tech secrets and a boom in clandestine services...where colonies of stranded aliens are brokering a technological goldmine and some secrets are worth killing for....