Certain Death One

By Richard Van Doren

Certain Death One is a monster that defies chemical and biological analysis, resulting from one accident after another in the realm of modern sciences - and it is eating through a rail tank car in one of the most densely populated areas in the world, preparing to vomit a cloud of gas so lethal it could destroy all life within fifty miles.
Now, a small group of Americans embark on a race against time in the removal and disposal of this horror. Among them are William Jeremiah, former golden boy in CIA covert operations, whose haunted conscience leads him to the brink of a nervous breakdown - and a desperate need for redemption. He is joined by FBI Agent Thomas Jordan, a gifted African American, fighting self-doubt and a simmering rage against an organization he believes betrayed him; Carl Bzynski, an ornery, bigoted recovering alcoholic, who also happens to be the most experienced locomotive engineer in the state; and Hosea Bethea, a timid African American, trying to escape a hopeless future in the deep south by becoming the best soldier he can possibly be, honing skills that may save millions.
These four must triumph over natural and human hazards, a force four hurricane bearing down on the coast of New Jersey, and a small band of "political soldiers," which has set out in pursuit of the train with the intention of blowing it up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Van Doren
• Release date: May 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781467573382

Richard Van Doren

Richard Van Doren is an ordained minister in a mainline Protestant denomination. He has always been fascinated by the fringe element in American culture and the extreme events that test faith. All of his novels and short stories deal with the collision of spirituality and earthly crises, or the ongoing conflict between the forces of good and evil. He moonlights as a college composition instructor, and every semester he teaches his students the two most important rules of writing: 1) write on a subject about which you know something, and 2) write on a subject about which you feel strongly. Over the years he has read and heard about countless instances of dark invasions into every day, innocent living. Anyone who has ever experienced something very strange, or who believes that we live in a reality that extends far beyond this world of the five senses will find his novels and stories much to their liking. All of these works contain instances that Van Doren has either experienced in his career or was told about by friends, students, parishioners and family.