Adventures of George Thurman: The Search for the Pearl Stone

By S.J. Abbey

The original inspiration of this book was a mix of some of my personal favorite movies; such as, the 'Star Wars' series, some of the 'James Bond' movies, and a television series called 'Jericho'. Simply put, this book would be for a reader that enjoys mystery's, murder, young romance, and just a bit of science fiction for a spice to whole story and the rest of the adventures that follow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483617428

S.J. Abbey

S.J.Abbey grew up in a Christian family that, at early years, inspired much of my creativity. As a child the author loved science fiction movies and books and was solely inspired by Star Wars to the idea of living in space, and how other species might have handled similar events to our own history as a people; however, as he grew so did my choice of books, which eventually settled to crime and mystery novels. The biggest inspiration for this book has sincerely been my daughter.

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Rev. date: 04/15/2013

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Contents

1  Parents

2  Death Child

3  Meeting in the dark

4  A son, a spy, and a witch

5  Great power, great responsibility.

6  To War

7  Best laid plans…

8  No reason to little

9  One Man Stand

1

Parents

I n the year of 2022, the rivaling politicians of Earth, finally met the anarchist rebels in battle resulting in many nuclear explosions across the globe. All of this only needed a month to advance to this level of devastation.

Almost all of the major cities of the world such as, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London, were all completely leveled from the bombs, and nuclear weapons that caused an instant death for millions of innocent people.

Radiation from the blasts caused the survivors of this destruction to find shelter in many parts of the planet’s wilderness. The people that were unable to escape the radiation either died or worse. Some of the irradiated people were also biologically adapted to radiation; however, these people’s metabolism grew so intense that they needed to feed in excess of greater than humanly possible, and this included eating other humans.

A couple from Green Bay, Wisconsin, had survived the war by staying far from the front line of all of the battles.

The couple’s names were John and Rose Thurman, and the couple finally settled in Iron River, Michigan in 2025 after three years of travel on foot to find a safe, quiet place to call home.

The northern regions of the United States going into Canada were thought to be so desolate, that when the governments had finally regrouped, and came together to form The Unified Nations of Earth, they had no interest in the region, and neither did the anarchist rebels that had formed together to make up The Velvet Army.

In 2026, Rose became pregnant and nine months later, George Thurman was born.

He grew up to have blond hair that he kept trimmed, and a very athletic body, durable enough even for war. His parents loved him very much and raised him to be a good person.

John taught George the new world’s survival method’s; such as, hunting, fishing, collecting fire wood, and the basics of carpentry.

Rose schooled George in the basic educational fundamentals, and even though George was advanced in all of his education, he remembered his mother’s teaching’s the most.

John had established a small farm for his family that had a few small chicken and geese pens, a few potbelly pigs, and even a cow that lived in the garage.

The Thurman house was small but had a small kitchen and dining room, a living room with a fireplace, and two bedrooms at the other end of the house. The kitchen connected to the garage and then into a larger barn.

Outside the Thurman farm, there was a small acre pasture that had corn, tomatoes, and even cabbage and strawberries. Along side the pasture was another acre pasture of hay for bedding and food for the livestock on the farm cut out of the woods of Michigan.

Life was very quiet and very peaceful for the Thurman family; however, life couldn’t always remain so still.

Change was beginning to happen rapidly outside the hidden Thurman farm, and with no government to uphold the law, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was a complete shuffle of power between drug clan’s and mercenaries looking for food and ammunitions, with no hope of change in sight.

A few years passed, and when George was about twelve years of age, on a quiet night, the Thurman farm was attacked by a raider clan.

The raiders set fire to the Thurman home, and stole the livestock and resources they could collect at the moment.

George escaped the attack on his home by running into the woods, where he hid for three weeks in a hut made from twigs and mud; however, he could never stop hearing the cries that his mother made before she died in the fire alongside his father.

The thoughts of losing his parents haunted him almost every night, until George could pull himself together to find food.

When George did finally start to wander the town’s nearby again, he began to find a few new friends that had recently became orphans from mercenary and raider clan attacks. The first of these was James Dickinson.

George found James just after a year of scavenging in an old gunned down grocery store on the edge of town, looking for his next meal.

The boy had short brown hair, and he was skinny from lack of food in his diet. James was only a year younger, and very twitchy.

When George first saw James from just outside the grocery store, in the parking lot he was at first very intrigued;