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Excerpt from the Prologue - The Earth Speaks
Action-adventure fiction
with a Biblical perspective!
“Diving Officer, check your trim!”  The Officer of the Deck barked at the officer
supervising the watch standers operating the submarine’s control planes.

“Check my trim, Dive aye!”  The Diving Officer resisted answering with any hint of
resentment.  Things were tense just now.  No need to add to the palpable anxiety
that filled the small control room.

“Helmsman; Planesman, give me a one degree up-bubble!  Work together now
gents!  That’s it.  No sudden control movements.  Ease the stern down a little . . .
lookin’ good.”

The Dive leaned back in his chair with a satisfied look on his face, no longer worried
that the rudder would get drawn upward by the hydro-dynamic forces of the surface
leading to a broach and causing a visible wake topside.  The last thing the control
team wanted was to give their position away during the height of the cold war.  The
ship’s one-degree up-bubble would avoid the potential for any indiscretion.

Back on the attack stand, the Officer of the Deck twirled around with his eye
plastered to the periscope.  He studied the surreal panorama of a glassy seascape
and waning sunlight through the small lens.  As he did so he also managed to make
a brief report to Captain Ray Wilson, the Commanding Officer, “Still no sign of our
guy in the raft Skipper.”

They silently skimmed beneath the near-still surface at a slow four knots.  Such water
conditions demanded that the crew keep close control of their vessel.  If the
submarine was to broach, the resulting wake could easily give their position away.  
However, in this out-of-the-way location, getting discovered appeared to be a remote
risk.  Through the scope, and by sonar, this section of ocean revealed no detectable
contacts.  

But, the crew also knew that in such conditions it was possible for sound to get
trapped in a thermal layer in the ocean’s fickle personalities, hiding any tell-tale tones
of potential adversaries, surfaced or submerged.  

In the back of everyone’s mind were the recent intelligence reports that the Russians
had a new submarine – quiet and deadly.  No U.S. Skipper wanted to be the first to
be tracked by it.  Stealth was a way of life, even during this important search and
rescue.

Despite having a good crew and a good ship, the U.S. submarine Commander was at
a serious disadvantage.  Things weren’t going well.  It was his job to rendezvous with
a solitary man in a raft; supposedly after being dropped off by a Russian cruiser.  
And, he couldn’t find him.  

He hoped to keep plenty of water space between the Russian warship and his own.  
The last thing he needed was an accidental collision and international incident at
sea.    

The two messengers backed then turned away from the throne.  

“I never stop thrilling at His voice – the Alpha and Omega.”  Morning Light whispered
in a hushed tone as he and Strong Sword stepped from the dimensionless, spiritual
world into the creation.

“Yes, the First and the Last; the Beginning and the End; the Ancient of Days - I too
must sing when in His presence, but come now, He has sent us again to rescue one
of His greatly beloved.”
Jib, a mysterious
humanitarian, and his
new protégé Zane lead
an expedition on a
thrilling international
adventure to activate a
novel communications
network while they deal
with criminal maniac
who’s bent on taking
control of the invention
for his own greedy
purposes – control of
the world.

Quick thinking,
humorous diversions
and travel to remote
volcanic regions help
them stay a few steps
ahead of their evil
nemesis.

Meanwhile a diabolic
and ancient secret
order discovers the
network and the
arrogant plans of Jib's
nemesis.  A tangled
series of events unfolds
until the strange climax
unveils an even more
sinister world plot.  It’s
clear our team of good
guys still have their
hands full at the
conclusion of this book.
THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE FIRMAMENT SHOWETH HIS HANDYWORK.  DAY UNTO DAY UTTERETH
SPEECH, AND NIGHT UNTO NIGHT SHOWETH KNOWLEDGE.  THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE, WHERE THEIR VOICE IS
NOT HEARD.   Written by King David in the Book of Psalms, chapter 19, verses one through three.