Synopsis

I am working on a novel which I began some time ago. I decided to put it online in the event a hurricane or other disaster should force me to evacuate my home. This would allow me to access my work from any place I could get an online connection.
I am going to put the chapters on the blog with the oldest first and so on so I can continue to add new ones in the correct order.
This means that the synopsis will be the first entry so if anyone should be interested in reading any of this they might want to go here first.
If anyone does read this I hope they enjoy it and I hope this will encourage me to keep working on it!

Waste Not, Want Not: A Synopsis of the novel by Dicky Neely
Paul Hewett had lived the American Dream. He was a highly decorated combat naval officer in World War II. He was head of his family fortune and widespread energy interests resulting from skillful management and crafty decisions by his grandfather in the early oilfields. Paul inherited control of the company from his father and had matched his grandfather’s enterprise by the leading the company, HEWCO, into world wide expansion and into nuclear energy plant construction, engineering and operation.
Paul’s private life had not been as successful. He had married after the war and had a son and daughter. His son had followed in his father’s footsteps and, after graduating from Annapolis, had entered into the Navy. Tragically, he was killed in the turret explosion aboard the USS Newport News as it cruised off the coast of Vietnam during the war there. Paul had great difficulty in coming to grips with his loss and poured himself into his work, eventually alienating his wife and daughter from whom he became estranged.
Paul then threw himself into his work with a renewed ferocity. HEWCO became even more profitable and powerful, in the market place and politically. Paul became active in the politics of the country and supported candidates in the full range of political involvement.
It came easy to him and in a few years he was a major player in Republican circles. His war connections and Annapolis classmates served him well and soon he was rubbing elbows with the rich and powerful and the intelligentsia of the country.
He initiated a program of creating and supplying weapons grade enriched uranium early in his involvement in nuclear power and became a fixture in the U.S. arms program. In a few years he found himself deep in the highly classified world of major cold warriors.
As disposal of nuclear wastes began to be a controversial major issue Paul initiated programs for storing this deadly off shoot of the atomic age. He opened several publicly known depots for this toxic waste but he also became involved in a covert movement, known only deep in the military brass, for disseminating and hiding tons of waste and certain secret weapons systems from official and public knowledge. This was done because safe storage techniques were lagging behind the ability to produce the enriched ore and also to create stockpiles of weapons grade materials that would be kept hidden from scrutiny by the inspectors enforcing treaties being made to limit arms production and stockpiles
Paul, along with many of the top brass, believed it unwise to vastly reduce our nuclear capability even in light of the new post cold war contingencies. Therefore they, surreptitiously, set these materials aside in well hidden and disguised locations for a “rainy day,” so to speak.
Now Paul was engaged in another such operation. Spy satellites using the latest MRI technology had discovered a large limestone cavern, previously unknown, on a property in Southern Texas about to be foreclosed by a bank owned by one of Paul’s companies. Paul had quietly made arrangements to buy the ranch and had improvements made on the existing ranch house. He then made his plans to visit, ostensibly on a hunting trip to conceal his true purposes.
He never dreamed that his trip would bring him directly in contact with another way of life and another world of reality. He was about to be challenged as never before in all of his experience by ancient powers wielded by an old Indian sorcerer who was pledged to protect his people and the land and its holy places of power. He would find himself in danger and his belief system would be shaken to the core.