The Breach - Paperback

by Mac Cusiter (Author)

The last despairing thought before the blackness took his mind away altogether was that God had chosen to abandon the human race after all.Dekker didn't blame him.Doctor Daniel Van Dekker is a worried man. Political engineering destroyed Australia's world class Institute for Nuclear Research. As chief scientist, he had failed to protect the institute he loved. Furious with his political masters and angry with himself, Dekker pressured the government to allow him to conduct experiments into nuclear fusion, holding out the promise of cheap energy and intellectual property rights worth a fortune.To this, his political masters agreed, their hidden agenda to ensure Dekker's failure and subsequent humiliation.Dekker also had a hidden agenda.Instead of investigating nuclear fusion, he planned to perform high energy collision experiments with the aim of discovering new fundamental particles. If he was successful, Australia's reputation in nuclear research would be restored.But Dekker's experiment went horribly wrong.With only two scientists on his team, Doctor Mark Chambers, a particle physicist and a committed Christian; and Doctor Candice LeBlanc, a power engineer who hates religion of any sort, Dekker must solve the problem he has created.He not only had to flee the country to save his life-but the entire human race.

Author Biography

Mac Cusiter was born at Lewisham, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, the year the second World War ended. His boyhood interest in science culminated in his graduating from Sydney University with a Doctorate in Physical Organic Chemistry. He began his professional life as a Chemistry teacher at Sydney Institute, and retired as Head of the Science Department. He has been a youth leader for much of his life, and in this capacity scripted and produced several feature length amateur movies in which young people were involved as actors and technicians. He lives with his wife Val in Sydney's northern suburbs.