Redfish - Haberkorn, Jim

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Résumé :
Rulon Hurt doesn't believe the earth is going to end from an asteroid strike, but his Swiss wife, Yohaba, disagrees. So does her grandfather, former CERN director Leonard Steenberg. One-eighty-two Elsa is shaped like a potato - a potato 27-miles wide and pock-mocked with numerous craters, the remnants of impacts from other, smaller asteroids. Elsa originated several billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a non-descript member of the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. At about the time Alexander the Great was conquering Persia, Elsa was side-swiped by a larger asteroid, lost some of its mass, but continued hurtling through the emptiness of space - this time on a different orbital path that will have it colliding with the earth just south of Geneva, Switzerland on April 13, 2029. Its 27-mile-wide mass moving at 30,000 mph will plunge through the earth's 60-mile thick atmosphere in just over a second and destroy the earth. On impact it will release the energy-equivalent of 200 trillion tons of TNT. Even if it lands in the 6.86 mile-deep Mariana Trench it will still pierce the earth's crust. The resulting earthquake will topple every structure on the planet. All the oceans will boil. The earth's atmosphere will catch fire. Everything will die. Shortly before his death, Albert Einstein predicted this would happen, even down to the exact date, but had time to confide his discovery and his proposed solution to only his three brilliant prot?g?s. The youngest of them, Leonard Steenberg, still lives, and has dedicated his life to fulfilling Einstein's last and greatest mission. Trouble is, mankind doesn't want to be saved. ...

Biographie:
Jim Haberkorn was born in Brooklyn. From 1969 to 1975 he fired an M1 Rocket Launcher (bazooka) for the Marine Corp Reserves and had many interesting adventures. In 1975 he began serving a two-year mission for his church in North Carolina where he met the real-life Brother-in-law, one of the heroes in his newest book, Redfish, his third novel. In 1978 he began working for Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He continued working for HP for the next 37 years until his retirement in 2016. His work took him around the United States as well to Johannesburg, South Africa and Zurich, Switzerland. During his many hours on airplanes, he began writing thrillers to relax. He published his first book in 2011. His second thriller was published in March 2013. His hobbies are hiking, exploring Switzerland, watching episodes of NCIS, church work, and learning German. Currently he lives in Zurich, Switzerland with his wife Kim.