Book cover for Veil: The devastating storms were just the beginning. by David Williamson

Veil

The devastating storms were just the beginning.

2010 Released
376 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN 9781450546652

Weather around the world becomes extreme as the sun's light dims. A team of researchers embark on a race against time to understand what's happening. Weather systems around the world are becoming chaotic with violent hailstorms, dense fogs and freak lightning strikes battering the planet. Complex changes are taking place in the atmosphere and the sun's radiation is being blocked. In Antarctica, Mike Stowley, a scientist, is monitoring rising levels of pollution in the upper atmosphere. Victoria Chemengana, a PhD student, is puzzled to find one of her specimens is contaminated with an unusual chemical. Howard and Anne, who work for the Department of Agriculture, discover something strange in the local fields. And what on Earth has young Katie just found? Several weeks later at a weather conference in Bournemouth, the main agenda is climate change but in a seperate seminar the main discussion is about the strange anomalies happening in the environment. After the conference a number of delegates decide to share information as they investigate these odd events. Soon the whole team are plunged into a frantic race to counteract the malevolent forces which are at work; forces which have the potential to totally transform Earth's biosphere, on which all of mankind depends. This book should appeal to fans of the x files and doomsday scenarios.

David Williamson

David Williamson is one of Australia's best known and most widely performed playwrights and one of Australia's leading screenwriters. His dramas have been produced by all the major Australian theatre companies and have been translated into many languages and performed internationally. David has directed eight professional productions of his own work and written many radio dramas. He has also written (or co-written) scripts for fifteen feature films, including the original screenplays for Petersen, Eliza Fraser (starring Susannah York), Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously (both starring Mel Gibson), Phar Lap, and Balibo (with Robert Connolly). His movie adaptations of his own plays include The Removalists, Don's Party, The Club, Travelling North, Emerald City and Sanctuary, and for television he adapted The Department, The Perfectionist, A Dangerous Life and On the Beach, and wrote The Four Minute Mile.

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