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Blue Gold
Adventure thriller
Blue Gold
Book 2 of the NUMA Files series
A brilliant scientist perfects an inexpensive desalination process that could ease the world's growing water crisis, then disappears after an attack over Venezuela. Ten years later, Kurt Austin investigates dead gray whales off California while NUMA researchers Paul and Gamay Trout encounter a technologically advanced tribe in the rainforest. Both trails lead toward a ruthless corporation seeking control over freshwater and the profits created by scarcity. Energetic and environmentally themed, this NUMA adventure suits readers who enjoy scientific breakthroughs, jungle survival, marine mysteries, corporate villains, and globe-spanning plots built around the increasingly valuable resource hidden in the title.
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Violence, danger, and sustained peril · Moderate frightening/intense material · Heavier kissing and romantic intimacy
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