The Continent of St. Louis

by J. L. Reynolds

Overview

Southern Californians had long been accustomed to the occasional jolts of small earthquakes, and for the most part had come to ignore the small jolts and considered them as more of a  reminder that they lived in an area that was dissected by the great San Andreas Fault along with many other smaller fault lines.

 

     Vince Davis, the director of the Seismic Center located in San Diego, California, had been awakened from sleep at 2:00 AM the morning of August 18^th, 2009 by the jolt of a small earthquake, not unlike many others he had experienced since moving to San Diego and taking over his position as director of the facility.  He felt no urgency in regard to the earthquake, knowing the Seismic Center would be monitoring the quake.  What he didn’t know, but would soon learn, was that the small quake was just the beginning of something more devastating and ominous.  Something that he and his assistant, Jim Lewis, never imagined could happen.  The two, caught up in the disaster, would band together with a group of new found and dedicated allies, forming a courageous force of defiant individuals. The government of the United States, no longer viable, crumbled and fell apart under the fury of the all-consuming disaster. Military and government officials alike deserted their posts, as Washington and the White House burned.  If the group was going to survive, they would have to find their own way, and do so by their own means. In a short period of 35 days, they would find themselves in a constant struggle against nature and the enemies they would encounter along the way.  He and his allies are ultimately forced to abandon their mountaintop headquarters and go to St. Louis, where they will have to make their last stand and face the power of the mighty New Madrid Fault.      

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781434339393
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	03/04/2008
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

J. L. Reynolds was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1939.  He lived and worked in the Kansas City area untill he retired from T.W.A in 1994. He was never trained as a writer, but has written many poems and songs over the years, none of which have been published. 

   This novel is his first attempt at serious writing. The completion of this novel marks a new path he has chosen to follow.  At the time of this printing, he has written three other novels that will complete the story of The Continent of St. Louis.  The subsequent novels that complete the story will be published and released in the months to come.

   His philososphy on life is that a person is never to old to try something new or different.  Success, he feels is not what others may say or think regarding your work, but rather the satisfaction the individual gets completing something they have started.