Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank Dr Chip McCreery and Dr Stuart Weinstein at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for listening to my wild stories and showing me around the facility. Thanks also to Delores Clark of NOAA for assisting in setting up the tour.
Much appreciation to Dr David Kriebel, professor of ocean engineering at the Naval Academy, for information about the effects of tsunamis on structures.
Thanks to Ray Lovell at Hawaii State Civil Defense for talking to me about HSCD response procedures in emergencies.
Thanks to pilot Doug Skeem for his advice on helicopters.
Thanks to my good friend Dr Erik Van Eaton for his medical expertise.
It’s great to have a brother who was an Air Force pilot, and I’d like to thank him – retired Lt Col Martin Wester field – for his help with all things military and airborne.
Susan Tunis and Frank Moretti provided invaluable input on this book at an early stage, and Machelle Allman and TJ Zecca were readers who gave the book an early boost when I needed it.
This book wouldn’t be in your hands if it weren’t for the tireless efforts of my agent, Irene Goodman, and my editor, Abby Zidle. I’m grateful for everything they’ve done.
Finally, thanks to my wife, Randi, for going on this journey with me.
Any errors in science, organizations, or geography, whether intentional or not, are mine alone. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
THE NOAH’S ARK QUEST
Boyd Morrison
Do the remains of Noah’s Ark really exist?
Before he dies, the father of ambitious young architect Dilara Kenner leaves her tantalising clues about the location of the legendary historical artefact—Noah’s Ark.
The most fabled relic of all time, the search for Noah’s Ark has obsessed many over the years. And when Dilara starts her quest – aided by former army engineer Tyler Locke – she rapidly becomes transfixed by the thought of discovering it. But there are sinister forces gathering who have deadly reasons for wanting to be the first ones to get to the relic.
From a helicopter crash in the Atlantic, to a sinister sect in Arizona’s Mojave desert, to the remote slopes of Mount Ararat, this thrilling page-turner blends nonstop action with fascinating historical fact.
‘Lightning-paced, chillingly real, here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned.’
978-0-7515-4415-2
THE MIDAS CODE
Boyd Morrison
Top army engineer Tyler Locke is given a mysterious ancient manuscript. Written in Greek, it initially seems indecipherable. But with the help of classics scholar Stacy Benedict, Locke comes to understand that this manuscript could provide the clues to the greatest riches known to mankind - the legendary treasure of King Midas.
However, there are others who are also hot on the trail—and it rapidly becomes a race against time to crack a code that is both fiendishly difficult and potentially deadly…
A sweeping, gripping read, The Midas Code blends fascinating incidents from myth and legend with a modern plot that will have you guessing to the very last page.
‘When it comes to thrillers, Boyd Morrison has the Midas touch.’
978-0-7515-4430-5
THE ROSWELL CONSPIRACY
Boyd Morrison
1947
Ten-year-old Fay Allen of Roswell, New Mexico, witnesses the fiery crash of an extraordinary craft unlike anything she’s ever seen …
2012
More than sixty years later, army engineer Tyler Locke rescues Fay from a pair of assassins. She says they were after a piece of wreckage she obtained from the Roswell crash – and she claims to know secrets about that incident that have never previously been revealed.
Tyler is initially sceptical, but after he is kidnapped by a mysterious band of mercenaries, he comes to believe that Roswell holds the key to his and his countrymen’s survival. And he realises that there is a desperate race against time for him to uncover its secrets…
Fast-paced and thrilling, The Roswell Conspiracy draws on actual details from the Roswell Incident to create a page-turning and thought-provoking thriller.
‘Move over Dan Brown, and give Boyd Morrison a try.’
978-0-7515-4800-6
