Peaceful Endings: The NOPOSAM Project

By Michael K Tucker and Michael K. Tucker

Book Overview

A chilling tale of Nanotechnology Peaceful Endings: The NOPOSAM Project, is a time labeled techno thriller set on the landscape of Rhode Island over two and a half days, where some doubtful government ethics go astray. When Coventry General Hospital overflows with sick patients that are dying from extremely minor injuries, trauma specialist, Dr. Marilynn Harwell, is bound and determined to stop it. Harwell's chance meeting with Doug Talbot, a television cameraman for Channel 16, entwines the two in a race against time to find an antidote. When General Thomas Uxbridge, head of the SIA, a man with his own agenda, puts the two under suspicion, their own lives become threatened, leading to two climactic endings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432727397
• ISBN13: 9781432727390
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A riveting thriller, well worth its price

Humans are tough creatures, and it takes a lot to kill them. But when people start keeling over from minor injuries, Dr. Marilynn Harwell is determined to find out why. "Peaceful Endings: The Nopsam Project" follows her quest to find out what is going on and soon finds there may be a greater conspiracy yet than her patient's happening to have really weak constitutions. She may be risking her own life to find out the truth. "Peaceful Endings" is a riveting thriller, well worth its price.

Medical Thriller...

The Noposam Project Michael K. Tucker Outskirts Press, 2008 ISBN: 9781432727390 Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for [...], 11/08 Stars Medical thriller... I love a good medical thriller; it is one of my favorite genres. Peaceful Endings did not disappoint me. The setting is Rhode Island. The story takes place over a 60-hour period. The hospitals are full of patients complaining of extreme thirst and profuse sweating of the forehead. Many do not survive. Dr. Marilynn Harwell, trauma specialist, is on duty. Doug Talbot brings his daughter into the ER with the same symptoms. From the prologue, it was obvious that General Thomas Uxbridge was going to be the antagonist in this excellent thriller. If I continue, I will give away too much of the plot. This is a must-read. The action never stops. I could not put this book down. Medical thriller, conspiracy novel, action-packed, frightening, and romance are all words that describe this book. If this is Michael Tucker's first novel, I can hardly wait to see what he creates as a seasoned author. His next book is coming out in early 2010. I'm not sure I can wait that long. Do not miss out on this one. Rush to your favorite bookstore for your copy.

Tucker Lays Possible Future in Our Reading Laps!

Michael K. Tucker's first novel, Peaceful Endings: The Noposam Project hits us exactly where it hurts! He explores our own lives and presents us with a powerful "what-if" novel that will leave you, if not frightened, then a much-more cautious person! For readers, he presents an exciting suspenseful medical thriller that will keep you on edge from the first page `til the last! Though the prologue lets us know that the government is going to be involved, I was nevertheless caught when the story begins in the life of Doug Talbot, a news videographer at WJAM TV-16 and Dr. Marilynn Harwell from Coventry General Hospital who accidentally sit together to eat lunch due to the lack of seating. Later they are identified as terrorists; simply because of that chance lunch--of course, Talbot's random filming of a covert conversation may have identified him as a problem as well! Unfortunately, Doug Talbot again met Marilynn Harwell when he carried his young, very sick daughter into Coventry General for emergency treatment. She was just one of hundreds who had become ill and/or already died. The strange thing was that the involved individuals had been fine until a small accident had occurred--for instance, a hairbrush falling on a girl's toe had led to her death! As Dr. Harwell faced the emergency situation, she sought help from the medical examiner who was being inundated by the many bodies of individuals who had been found already dead. But he had not yet been able to determine if there was any consistent reason for the deaths. Until Dr. Harwell had him check at a specific place on their bodies... There were a number of individuals who knew what had really happened. But when General Thomas Uxbridge, head of the SIA, was called on to advise the president, he told him that terrorists had freed a B-Thrax virus into the United States. Talbot and Harwell appeared to be the leaders! The amazing and frightening thing was that the evidence developed by Uxbridge against the two was so convincing that nobody even questioned him! Talbot and Harwell really had no choice. They were forced to verify that Dr. Harwell's discovery was correct and to trace how and what could be done to stop the ongoing deaths. But when the medical examiner, while on the phone with Dr. Harwell, was killed, they knew they were running for their lives! If you don't know what nanotechnology is--you might want to check it out! It's being used today in many scientific fields. Michael Tucker has taken us to the dark side of this technology--shown us what is possible when evil men gain control over something that is created to help mankind. In doing so, he has created an exciting, suspense-packed medical thriller! Read it--if you dare... G. A. Bixler

Exciting & suspensful tail!

I really enjoyed reading Peaceful Endings! It kept me wanting to read more. This writer style is a lot like another writer I like Dean Koontz. Can't wait until his next book!

Fast-paced conspiracy novel that was fun to read...

Michael K. Tucker contacted me and asked if I would be interested in reviewing his novel, Peaceful Endings: The NOPOSAM Project. Billed as a nanotech thriller, it was definitely in the genre range that I enjoy. For a first novel, Tucker has done a good job. It suffers (in my opinion) from a common problem in first novels... realistic dialogue. But it's not enough to detract from what was a story that kept me coming back to learn the outcome. People are dying in droves in tiny Rhode Island from totally unexplained causes. They start sweating profusely and develop an intense thirst. But before anything can be done, they drop dead. Doug Talbot, a free-lance cameraman for the local TV station, gets caught up in the crisis when his daughter Cassandra contracts the strange illness that is killing everyone. He takes her to the hospital, where he's able to get her in the care of Dr. Marilynn (two n's) Harwell, a physician he happened to meet earlier in a local food court. This chance meeting has unintended consequences, however. A covert government agency, the SIA, observed Talbot taking pictures of a high-ranking general in the organization prior to the lunch meeting, and they have both Harwell and Talbot under surveillance. As the medical crisis spreads and the government declares martial law, they also target Harwell and Talbot as "terrorists" who can be blamed for a biological attack. Harwell discovers the real reason behind the deaths, and both her and Talbot have to go on the run in order to expose the truth and save his daughter. In terms of plot and characters, I liked the story. The premise was interesting, and it's one of those "conspiracy" plots that unfortunately becomes more believable with time. The only problem I had was with some of the dialogue. I find that first time novelists often have dialogue that is too cute and perfect. For instance, Harwell goes off on a rant about a death that she feels she should have been able to predict and prevent. After everything that her and Talbot had gone through, the words just didn't seem natural. If this were one of many novels that Tucker had written, I don't think I'd be quite as understanding. But in this case, it's far from the worst cases I've read, and it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story. This was a fun read, and I look forward to reading his follow-up novel due later.