TSUNAMI STORM (28 page)

Jake held his arm out exposing the watch. “The vic from this morning wanted me to have this.”

Ken examined the watch closely. “What is it?”

“I don’t know at this point, but both of the Chinese nationals in custody were wearing identical watches.”

“Ya mind?” Ken asked holding out his hand. Jake took the watch off and handed it to him. Ken pulled his jeweler’s loop from his pocket and examined the watch in detail.

“Interesting, especially the holographic bird.” Ken handed the watch back to Jake.

“Yeah, looks like some strange type of eagle.”

“Not an eagle, it’s a mystical bird, not a real one.”

“Mystical?”

“It’s a Phoenix, from ancient Egypt. Supposedly lives for 500 years, builds a nest and sets it on fire. The old bird burns up in the funeral pyre nest and a new bird rises from the ashes.”

“I understand that’s how Phoenix, Arizona got its name.”

“Yep, it is. So the gold bearer bonds…”

“Are connected to the murder,” Jake finished. “And something tells me these gold bonds were going to be honored by Daniel Jacobson.”

“And somebody at the bank didn’t want that to happen?”

“Maybe, maybe not,” Jake said. “Either way, I’m thinking Jacobson was on his way to us as a whistleblower…”

“And boom! No more Jacobson.”

“Yeah, but somebody still needs that money transferred.”

“Okay,” Ken said. “We know how—the gold bearer bonds—we just don’t know who.”

“But we do know where.”

“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”

AUTHOR  D F CAPPS

DF Capps is the author of
Meteor Storm
, and
Tsunami Storm
, sci-fi thrillers.
Meteor Storm
features new technologies and ancient history. Capps illustrates some of the ways technologies we currently have could be used and he mixes these new technologies with his fascination with ancient history and alternative Archaeology. For Capps mixing the new and uncharted with the old is an exciting and illuminating undertaking.
Tsunami Storm
features the use of secret weapons of mass destruction and the existence of a Covert War.

Capps attended Wayne State University for two years before joining the U.S. Navy. Later he was discharged from the Submarine Service and went to work as an electrician in the Machine Tool trade in the Detroit area. Capps was initially trained in electronics in the Navy and expanded his training to include Industrial Computer Control and computer programming. Due to the fluctuating automotive job market in the Detroit area, he developed his design skills in both mechanical design and electrical design. Capps has six U.S. Patents and won a national design competition in 1985.

As a former electrical and mechanical engineer, Capps draws upon his experience to create much of the technology in his novels. He has a keen interest in emerging energy sciences and in his quest for knowledge on this new technology, Capps developed the control system for an over-unity electrical generator and witnessed first-hand the capabilities of such developing technologies, "The day I made the measurements on a machine that was producing eight times the electrical energy that it was consuming was a life-altering experience. I saw for myself what could actually be done, even though it was against all of my electrical training. Since then I have questioned everything that is considered conventional knowledge and found it terribly lacking. We actually live in a world that functions at a very different level from what we perceive."

Capps uses this new understanding of the greater possibilities for science and technology in his sci-fi thrillers. Some of the writers who inspired Capps are Michael Baigent, Dr. Eben Alexander (
Proof of Heaven
&
A Map of Heaven
), and David Baldacci. Capps has attended dozens of webinars through Writers Digest to work on perfecting his writing craft. Capps’ goal as a writer is to fashion an entertaining story and then to weave generally unknown facts into that story leaving the reader wondering just what is real and what isn't. If he can entertain a reader and make that reader question the reality around them, then he considers his efforts a success.

As much as a writer might like to think this is the work of the writer alone, nothing could be further from the truth. Each book that you read is the combined effort of a number of people who have all contributed to the end product. First I would like to thank my wife, Miriam for her endless patience and suggestions. Next is the much appreciated suggestions of Katie Reed and my talented publicist, Rebecca Berus. A special thanks to artist Natasha Brown for her cover design.

I would also like to thank Joseph P. Farrell for his tireless research and courage in publishing the often hidden side of human history and its dark endeavors in his book,
Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations,
Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 978-1-935487-83-8, from which I have drawn the inspiration for Tsunami Storm.