This
page provides facts and synopsis for Dead Light, a
suspense novel by Robert A. Gallinger.
Dead
Light
Facts:
Fiction: Mystery/Suspense Thriller
ISBN0595210961
Writers
Club Press (Imprint of www.iuniverse.com)
Available: Trade Paperback $15.95 US/$25.95
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285
Pages
6 x 9
inches
Synopsis:
Dead
Light is a page-turning suspense/thriller that begins with an
alleged suicide, and an investigation that reveals
unexplained disappearances that involve high-level Soviet
bureaucrats, many involved with nuclear material.
During
a violent September thunderstorm, a man's body falls from the
Sobakina Tower, and crashes into the garden outside the
Kremlin walls.
Colonel
Vladimir Antonovich from the SID, Special Investigations
Department, rushes to the scene with his partners Kulick and
Frunze.
At the
wall, they discover that the man has no identification, but
does have a suspected suicide note in his hand, badly smudged
from the rain.
Since
there is a hole in the man's head, and no gun is found,
interesting questions arise. Did the man shoot himself and
someone picked up the gun and ran off with it, or did someone
else shoot him, and then push him over the side?
As
Colonel Antonovich investigates, he finds that there have
been other suicides recently, most handled by the Militia.
Strangely, the families of all of previous suicides have been
reported as missing.
Soon,
Antonovich discovers that the family of the man found outside
the Kremlin wall is missing, too. He also finds a trail of
illegal exit visas, evidence of laundered money, and multiple
cases of unlawful death. There is also the questionable
disposition of nuclear waste.
Now,
Colonel Antonovich must find out who is responsible before
anymore "suicides" are found, or somebody makes a dirty bomb
from unaccounted for nuclear waste.