Review of E M P Honeymoon

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[Following is a volunteer review of "E M P Honeymoon" by Dorothy May Mercer.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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E M P Honeymoon: Kelly and Tom
By Dorothy May Mercer

This is the second book I have read by Dorothy May Mercer, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The novel begins with an emotionally charged call from Kelly McBride Turbulo to her brother, Senator Mike McBride. Kelly has just married Carson City Police Sergeant Tom Turbulo, and they are honeymooning on a Caribbean island in Honduras. Tom works all the time and has promised not to do any police business while they are away. This doesn’t last long.

Kelly takes a tour bus to shop in town and wanders away when she sees a local store called the Pigsty. Curious, Kelly meanders in but is mystified to find the store unattended. Looking for a clerk, Kelly unsuspectingly finds the store is a high-tech lab with detailed maps of the electric power grids in the U.S. and Canada. Now apprehensive, she aims to report this to the proper authorities. As she escapes, she realizes a group of people from the “store” are on her trail.

The story continues with Kelly and others trying to evade capture and save the United States from being hit by a space satellite with a nuclear warhead attached. It was sanctioned by “Dear Leader” and built by special forces in North Korea.

I like that Ms. Mercer includes several characters from her McBride series of action novels. The adventures here have amusing and well-portrayed characters like two CIA operatives, Rhee Su-Jin, Harry Haven-Harbinger, and Dr. Peter Kinney, an expert on atomic explosions in space.

The author did a lot of research for this novel. She explores how our electric power grids operate and how we aren’t as protected from an overarching power outage as we think. She explains that solar flares have historically blown up with debris that just missed the earth. She even includes detailed information from other sources describing the Sun’s “super” solar flare.

I appreciated the list of the characters at the end, as it can get confusing. This book is professionally edited and hard to put down. It is a fast-paced, thrilling book that is fiction but also teaches us something about nuclear destruction and its consequences. I happily rate it a 5 out of 5.

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E M P Honeymoon
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