Off The Grid [NOOK Book]

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Luke Kincaid is a model employee at the only company in the world that can deliver wireless electricity. He's engaged to the CEO's daughter and is quickly becoming the go-to corporate spy on its behalf. But Luke would rather tear the company down from the inside. The company killed his parents and it must pay.

Threatened by a secret that could destroy him and any chance of revenge, Luke sets off to find the ...
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Overview

Luke Kincaid is a model employee at the only company in the world that can deliver wireless electricity. He's engaged to the CEO's daughter and is quickly becoming the go-to corporate spy on its behalf. But Luke would rather tear the company down from the inside. The company killed his parents and it must pay.

Threatened by a secret that could destroy him and any chance of revenge, Luke sets off to find the true origins of wireless electricity, but discovers a vast deception that will change the world forever.
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Editorial Reviews

Vito Longo
Off the Grid sees a future where burning coal to generate electricity is banned and Nikola Tesla's power beaming becomes a reality for a company, StuTech, that has monopolized the electric market and has un-plugged a big part of the US. Luke Kincaid's parents were early casualties of the blackout. Ten-years later, Luke is working for StuTech . . . but, to what end?

Off the Grid is an interesting and compelling read both for mystery fans and electric power industry veterans.
Self-Publishing Review
"Dan Kolbet's dystopian techno thriller Off the Grid offers us a picture of how a world without easy access to electricity might be" . . . a "fast-paced thriller"
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013260474
  • Publisher: Alfeka Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/8/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 727,961
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Dan Kolbet lives in Spokane, Washington with his two daughters. He is a former newspaper editor and reporter. Kolbet currently works as a corporate spokesperson for a West Coast utility.

Kolbet's literary works include the corporate espionage thriller, Off The Grid (2011), and Don't Wait For Me (Nov. 2012), a gripping tale of love, loss and new beginnings. Kolbet prides himself on writing stories that invite a reader in and hold their attention. If you enjoy wasted prose and needless opining, look elsewhere.

You can find Kolbet's personal blog at www.dankolbet.com or like his author page on Facebook www.facebook.com/DanKolbetBooks.
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  • Posted December 1, 2011

    A decent fast-paced thriller

    In Kolbet¿s near-future setting, environmental concerns have led to fossil fuels being banned in the generation of electricity in America, which in turn has led to millions of people suddenly losing access to electricity with catastrophic results. What follows is a fast-paced thriller that takes Luke around the world and around America, searching for the truth behind StuTech¿s technology. Along the way he encounters the usual sorts of thrills and spills you¿d expect in a story of this sort, and it all leads to a suitably dramatic climax. Kolbet clearly understands the demands of the genre and writes clearly and well when he needs to, but this novel didn¿t quite work for me. The elements are all in place here, and the action set pieces in particular are written with vigor and a good eye for the telling details, but some problems with the setting kept bouncing me out of this one. Fatally, I struggled to find the basic premise convincing. The banning of fossil fuels in power generation makes sense ¿ it¿s likely something like this is going to happen sometime in the next fifty years ¿ but I kept wondering about alternative and sustainable energy. It¿s unlikely that wind, hydro and geothermal power would be able to completely replace oil and coal plants, but apart from a fleeting aside about wind turbines (we¿re shown wooden turbines being sold at a market, which is a bit lame ¿ wooden? Seriously?) they don¿t get a mention. And what about nuclear? It¿s not mentioned either. I was also concerned that the ramifications of the great black-out weren¿t followed through. Given that suburban and rural areas, small cities even, are without power, I would have expected far more in the way of death and destruction. I would have expected big cities heaving with refugees, widespread and grinding poverty and starvation everywhere. It didn¿t seem to be quite the lawless and apocalyptic place it really needed to be to justify the hyperbole around the loss of electricity. And what about all the other uses for fossil fuels ¿ international air travel, for example (which contributes between two and five per cent of carbon emissions globally) doesn¿t seem to be a problem. Similarly, I was never entirely clear on the nature of StuTech technology. Kolbet emphasised the miracle of broadcast power, but I couldn¿t figure out exactly how the power was generated. It¿s possible that the whole thing makes sense, but I didn¿t feel I was given all the pieces necessary for it to fall into place. These elements were a real problem, because without a clear statement of what¿s gone wrong (or a massively over-the-top one even, given the genre) Luke¿s motivations seem a bit watery. When Kolbet threw in, about halfway through, that the miracle substance A.R.C. didn¿t just conduct electricity but could potentially cure spinal injuries (and, it¿s implied, Luke¿s niece¿s respiratory illness) I got the feeling that he was trying to compensate for this lack of drama by giving Luke something else to fight for. That¿s probably a mistake. I needed only one miraculous power of the secret stuff to keep me going; adding another unrelated super-power made me question the whole enterprise. There are also a few uncertainties of character that let this novel down. Luke¿s motivations get a bit confused as the action goes on: the love affair with the boss¿s d

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  • Posted November 9, 2011

    Off the Grid

    Off the Grid is a great thriller that kept me guessing until the end. Luke is a character that you want to see take down the corrupt and selfish CEO of StuTech. I am looking forward to reading more from this author in the future.

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