Paul R. Dennis

Where the first book, The Discovery, primarily presents the characters and the early history of the Q-LITHIUM phenomenon, this book chronicles new adventures of the intrepid Q-LITHIUM team. Sean Henderson and his beautiful partner and lover, Jill Cramer, continue their torrid romance. Surveys indicate a previously unknown source of Q-LITHIUM located two miles deep in the Puerto Rico Atlantic trench. The Q-Labs research ship, the Nantucket Explorer, discovers a "white smoker" emitting a very high purity version of the element. Before any action can be taken, the ship is disintegrated by an unknown weapon. Q-Labs mounts a new expedition to investigate the "smoker". During collection of samples, "crawler" tracks are noted around the smoker. Someone is pirating the Q-LITHIUM. The Navy interdicts a small contingent of terrorists from a new organization attempting to install a destructive device of some sort on the survey ship. The device proves to be a new type of weapon made with Q-LITHIUM that literally disintegrates matter by disrupting the quantum level, mass-creating Higgs field. Using this new weapon as a guide, Thorny Memorial Research develops a family of q-weapons that they dub "q-Disruptors". Other new and exciting "commercial" products are also developed. A new terrorist group is formed (Los Hermanos de la Revoluci n or LHR). They attempt to acquire quantities of Q-LITHIUM by several intriguing methods including kidnapping and the destruction of a deep sea submersible resulting in several harrowing hours of nail-biting attempts to rescue the sub and its occupants. The appearance of an unexpected ally aids the Q-LITHIUM team in locating the main LHR headquarters in Caracas. An "attack" team destroys the "head of the snake" and a surprising new romance develops. A remaining splinter cell of the LHR attempts to assassinate the Q-LITHIUM team members. The unexpected ally helps in locating the cell. A plethora of other rapidly occurring events ensure that the Q-LITHIUM team remains busy foiling one plot after another. New sources of Q-LITHIUM are discovered creating more interesting tales. The finale is exciting and unexpected. Q-LITHIUM is replete with human interaction, humor, romance, action and science. When reading this genre-bending novel, you will want to become part of the talented crew of protagonists.

Approximately 4.54 billion years ago, during the formation of this blue-green planet Earth, wormholes appeared in space near the forming planet. These wormholes allowed matter from a connected alternate universe to flow into our universe. The matter gradually formed a solid sphere and the force of gravity drew the sphere inexorably toward its traveling companion. Approximately 400 million years ago, the sphere, with a mass of hundreds of thousands of tons, plunged through Earth's primordial atmosphere, broke apart and impacted various areas around the globe where it remained undiscovered until the early 21st century. Some strange ore is discovered in a worked-out silver mine and a project is initiated at the Thorny research institute to investigate its properties. The project was headed by the Institute's new and beautiful Director of Mineralogy, Dr. Jill Cramer, . The material was later dubbed "Q-LITHIUM". Q-LITHIUM exhibited several unique properties of such a nature as to have a significant impact on the world's standard of living and threatened to upend known science and technology. The reasons for all of this are discovered in a surprising twist of science. Sean Henderson (Director of the Institute) and Jill fall for each other over an extended 4th of July weekend at Sean's spectacular home in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe in an intriguing and sensual encounter. An unscrupulous business cabal and the Department of the Navy take interest in the new element. The cabal mounts many daring efforts, including kidnapping, to steal the Q-LITHIUM ore and related research data. The Department of the Navy attempts a take-over of the Q-LITHIUM project with interesting results. New properties of the element constantly reveal themselves and the Q-LITHIUM Advisory Council (QAC) is formed to decide the fate of this otherworldly element that has become so precious on Earth. A surprising ally appears to aid Sean's fight against the Navy. Between the two antagonists-the Navy and the cabal-Sean, Jill and the rest of the QAC team are whipsawed through various ingenious plots to gain control of the element. A secret Q-LITHIUM research and production facility is established by the cabal. This facility is discovered and taken out of action in a strange battle using new Q-LITHIUM weapons. The conclusion is unexpected and fascinating This genre-bending novel is replete with human interaction, humor, romance, action, science and surprises.