Pandemic Dawn : Author B.A. Shields Releases NEW Novel depicting a post-apocalyptic search for a missing son.
Description: Taylor is looking for his son whom he hasn’t seen since the cleansing took place. He thought his travels through the radioactive and virus infected suburbs he used to call home would be simple. That was until he met them. A group of women and children slaves in desperate need of rescue. He knew that he had to save them. He also knew that if his son was still alive, he needed to find him.
In a hidden military base, Dr. Miles Richards works on a cure for the ever spreading virus the government failed to stop. With the aid of Dorothy, a self-aware robot he created, they discover far more than mutated virus research hidden deep within the military computer systems.
Who was Dr. Atkins, and why was his research encrypted? Did it have anything to do with his dead daughter or the multiple variations of a virus that had already killed millions of innocent people? Could a cure be found before it was too late?
In this first novel of the Pandemic Dawn Series, author B.A. Shields combines a suspenseful journey of conflict with romance and loyalty. Pandemic Dawn is a gripping story of one man searching for his lost son and finding hope, while another who searches for a lost cure discovers his true identity.
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Pitch: Pandemic Dawn is the first book of a fictional series set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Pandemic Dawn asks the question, what if your government was involved in testing viruses on the population under the guise of vaccines? What if one morning you woke up to find that they had killed millions of people in an effort to stop one of their “tests” from destroying all life as we know it? What if your only son was lost in the aftermath of this destruction?
Pandemic Dawn tells the story of men on both sides of this scenario. Taylor is trying to find his son in this new world of disease, anarchy and chaos, and along the way discovers a ring of slave traders which forces him to make a moral decision. Should he help these women and children and risk never finding his son, or continue looking for his son and leave them to their fate? On the other side of this dilemma, Dr. Miles Richards works in a hidden lab trying to find a cure, but instead uncovers even more questions. With the aid of Dorothy, a self-aware robotic creation of his, they discover far more than virus research hidden deep within the military computer systems. Who is Dr. Atkins, and does this virus have anything to do with his daughter’s death?
Pandemic Dawn is approximately 70,000 words. Capturing nearly everyone’s fear of “what-if” and placing them in the middle of the aftermath. Readers will be compelled to experience everyday survival in a global disaster.
Pandemic Dawn combines a suspenseful journey of conflict with romance and loyalty. It is a gripping story of one man searching for his lost son and finding hope, while another who searches for a lost cure discovers his true identity.
Biography: I was born in the industrial outskirts of Flint, Michigan in 1969. My father was an auto-worker as many were, and we enjoyed the typical life of an overworked and underpaid lower/middle class family.
I loved writing and creating stories as far back as I can remember, and I attribute this to the wonderful stories my Grandfather would tell to my siblings and I when we were young. He always had a wonderful tale of discovery, and adventure that made one want to pack their gear and head out to the unknown.
I wrote short stories and skits for my classmates and I to perform in elementary, which my teacher Mr. Coggin’s would occasionally allow us to perform for the rest of the class.
By middle school I had adventures burned into my thinking, from my grandfather’s stories as well as from hours of sci-fi adventures in cinema and on television. Captain Kirk’s jaunts through imagination, as well as Lost in Space, Star Wars, and the like, all fueled my creativeness. I will never forget when I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the first time in the theater. Adventure was calling me.
I currently live in Northern Michigan with my wife and six children.
Personal Anecdotes: I began writing Pandemic Dawn in 2009 as a result of the continuing concerns I witnessed among people in general over the spread of yet another infectious disease, the “swine flu” or H1N1.
I still remember when AIDS first started destroying peoples lives, and the fears that came before and after they discovered how it was spreading, and just how deadly it really was.
Ever since the Black Death of the fourteenth century, man has recognized how fragile we truly are, and how a simple organism too small to see with the naked eye, could destroy life as we know it.
When I imagined the government testing on the population, I recall Saddam Husain’s testing on his own people which killed entire villages. I imagined the thoughts and fears of those who were helpless to a dictator’s whim, and just moments before being destroyed, were washing clothes, cooking lunch for their families, and going about their daily routines.
I imagine, if our government split into two groups, one who remains loyal to its populous, while the other conforming into an uncontrollable dictatorship.
One of my personal fears in the wake of any devastation, whether by virus, infectious disease or nuclear disaster, is the thought of my family. How would I protect them, take care of them, support them in a new society where all the rules of life have changed?
With no law, no government, no order, how would one survive?
I believe that we are witnessing what would happen on a global scale if we examine Haiti and their devastation and suffering that they are currently enduring.
This alone brings all of my fears back into focus.
Title: Pandemic Dawn : Book One Rights: Half Dead Publishing
Subtitle: Book One Category: Fiction/Action & Adventure
Author: B.A. Shields Pub Month: January 2010
ISBN: 978-1449970116 Format: Soft cover
Price: $15.95 U.S./$17.95 CAN Pages: 326
Trim: 5 ¼ x 8 Index: No
Photography & art: No
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