Killer Waves (Lewis Cole Book 4), page 35
The single light was on, and I had grabbed a flashlight as well. I turned on the flashlight and illuminated the small cellar, remembering the time I had been down here with Jon, talking about history, talking about my home. I reached up and touched the old timbers, almost imagined I could feel the strength of the wood, and the patience in the years that the wood had served here, holding up my home. I shone the light around in the corners of the cellar, at the old stonework, remembering again what Jon had said about the history of one's place. This was now my home, and the history here belonged to me.
I knelt down on the cold dirt, placed the wire colander at my side, and started digging.
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ALSO BY BRENDAN DUBOIS
The Lewis Cole Series
Dead Sand
Black Tide
Shattered Shell
Killer Waves
Buried Dreams
Primary Storm
Deadly Cove
Fatal Harbor
Blood Foam
Storm Cell
Hard Aground
Terminal Surf
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AFTERWORD
I’m often asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” And while it’s sometimes hard to explain the thought process, here, it was ridiculously easy. Years ago The Boston Globe ran a front-page article about the main plot point in this book: the missing uranium from the U-234 U-boat, which had been interned at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The uranium went missing and has been missing ever since.
There, that was it, all wrapped up in a pretty pink bow, an idea for the next Lewis Cole novel. A friend of mine who knows a lot about things nuclear told me that even a half century or so later, the uranium oxide that the Germans had processed could still be used in a dirty bomb, or the development of an atomic weapon.
I wish all my novel ideas came so easily.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The author wishes to express his deep gratitude to Ron Thurlow, for his technical advice; to the staff of the Exeter, New Hampshire, Public Library for their cheerful assistance; and to his wife, Mona, the best first reader an author could ever wish for.
The Porter Submarine Museum as mentioned in this novel does not exist. However, the USS Albacore is on display and can be visited in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The story of the German U-boats being interned in New Hampshire after World War II is true, as is the tale of the U-234 and its cargo, including the uranium to be used for a Nazi atomic bomb.
This uranium did in fact disappear after the U-234 was brought to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Its whereabouts are still unknown.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brendan DuBois is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six novels, including the Lewis Cole series. He has also written The First Lady and The Cornwalls Are Gone (March 2019), coauthored with James Patterson, The Summer House (June 2020), and Blowback, September 2022. His next coauthored novel with Patterson, Countdown, will be released in March 2023. He has also published nearly two hundred short stories.
His stories have won three Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America, two Barry Awards, two Derringer Awards, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award. He has also been nominated for three Edgar Allan Poe awards from the Mystery Writers of America.
In 2021 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
He is also a “Jeopardy!” gameshow champion.
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