What Lies Below: A Tim Cullen Mystery

By Mr. JOEL REITMAN

It's a story that explores a murder that's really isn't, somewhat like Snow Falling on Cedars. This is a story of government secrets whose truth is hidden beneath the bunkers of a state park in Montauk, New York. Those secrets occasional appear in the polluted rivers of Long Island.It's really the story of Tim Cullen, a young investigative reporter, who's enmeshed in a deep and diverse story of political and military secrets. He exposes a plan to smuggle cars to Cuba from a deserted and polluted Air Force base in Arizona. Beaten down by disbelieving citizens and politicians, Tim packs up and heads to Long Island. He reunites with his buddy, Detective Ed Green, who is at the scene of a murder. A deer suffering from nuclear poisoning unexpectedlyleads the two pals to a secret government program at the end of Long Island, Montauk Point.There, hidden within a state park, is a sense of mystery surrounding a camouflaged village with underground bunkers, a vintage radar antenna and the lost experiments of Nikola Tesla. The two buddies seek to link polluting nuclear reactors and three unique radar towers to try and prove the existence of a secret government experiment.This story was inspired by a piece I wrote as a journalist working for the Smithtown Messenger (a weekly) and reoccurred when I was also employed as a journalist by Southold's Traveler Watchman (also a weekly newspaper). Those pieces revolved around an underground plume of nuclear contamination that was from an unknown source.Other stories I have written have been published (Outta Here - Jackie Robinson) in The Storyteller magazine and in Newsday (Topping my list of Man's Best Friend).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1726806235
• ISBN13: 9781726806237
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"