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Power Surge Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Six-time Hugo champion Ben Bova brings us a gripping political thriller for the leading edge of technology and technology.

Dr. Jake Ross found Washington to produce a difference. As the science advisor to a recently elected freshman senator, Jake provides crafted a comprehensive energy strategy that employs latest technologies to make America the world’s innovator in energy creation while simultaneously enhancing the overall economy and protecting the environment. The facts-and the science-are on Jake’s side, but his plan soon operates afoul of entrenched particular passions, well-funded lobbies, cynical bureaucrats, pork-barrel politics, and one extremely effective US senator.

To keep his program alive and secure a sustainable future for America, Jake requires a crash program in the way Washington really works. Everyone keeps telling him that his program has no hope of being successful, but Jake is determined to prove them wrong even if it kills him … something that specific hostile parties could be all too pleased to arrange.