Product Description
by M. D. Jon Traer (Author), MD Jon Wayne Traer (Author)
"EMP: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" begins in rural costal Georgia in the fall 2013. Two retired couples join forces and begin a self-education process regarding the physical nature of electromagnetic pulse (EMP). They quickly learn EMPs affecting Earth's electrical infrastructure can be generated by natural events occuring near the surface of our sun. More worrysome, however, they discover an adversary of the United States may be attempting to create a powerful man-made EMP that would descimate the electrical infrastructure for the entire U.S. This would destroy our nation's status as a global superpower, as well as result in the eventual death of a large percentage of our population. Dialogues among the novel's characters are written using layman's terms. This affords a nonscience-minded reader an oportunity to understand exactly what an EMP is. A reader will also learn of protective measures that can be taken to survive such an event. As the novel's characters are learning about EMP, many readers will also be learning about it for themselves.
Author Biography
Dr. Traer is board certified surgeon who in retirement has become a "novice hobby writer." A native of Atlanta, he and his retired wife (a surgical nurse) have lived on the rural Georgia coast in McIntosh County for the last 20 plus years. The author calls his writing "faction," or fiction based on facts and factual events. "EMP: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" represents the sixth and possibly final book in the series informally called his "Dr. Mark Telfair Series." Earlier titles in the series focus on medical humor found in surgical training or during many years of private practice in a small town in middle Georgia; later books in the series move on to assisting federal agents who are dealing with drug smuggling on the Georgia coast, working with FBI agents dealing with bioterrorism, and dealing with an intact massive U.S. nuclear weapon reportedly lost in Wassaw sound in Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Mark Telfair and his nurse-wife, Anne, are protagonists throughout the entire series.
