The Circle of Power

Hunter Greene is in the middle of it again. The boyish executive editor of Harvard's in-house newspaper was minding his business when something blew up a chunk of Delhi, including a few friends. All hell is breaking loose and if Hunter's not saving the day, he's there reporting it for the Harvard Gazette. He may have been born a Boston Brahmin, but he usually ends up like Batman in tweeds, the loveable reluctant action hero we know as Hunter ... from Harvard.

The Circle of Power is typical. Before he gets a chance to write it up, Hunter and Hugo Powell, his brilliant but quirky MIT friend and accomplice, are swept into an extraordinary adventure spanning two hemispheres and three countries as they interrupt the schemes of two madmen to level London with a device so horrific that it nearly wiped out human civilization the last time it was constructed.

You'll meet wise Tara Chapin-Gold, thoughtful General Rick Harmon, feisty Maria Bravo, raging Vladimir Ulanovsky, devious Deiter Reimann, and the amazing "Cherry" Yamada , half-Japanese, half-Cherokee PhD from Cal Tech, daring test-pilot for Hugo's revolutionary terrorist-tracking helicopter. As the conspiracy unfolds, the origins of the legends of Atlantis, Shiva, Stonehenge, and Satan are rediscovered combined in ancient sexual rituals and a weapon of unimaginable destruction. In a spectacular "duel" over London, Cherry sends the villains to the bottom of the Thames, but will Hunter win her heart? In the background looms the austere figure of Lowell Stanleigh, President of Harvard. How much global power does Harvard really wield?

Nobody really knows. But before the book is over, the US Army, the Indian Government, New Scotland Yard and dozens of major and minor characters take their part in a global thriller that starts, and ends, in Harvard Yard. By then the reader will know how to build an atomic bomb, the basics of Indian classical music, the secret of the computer in the Harvard science center, and who actually wrote Chevrolet's heartbeat of America jingle. Fact and fiction, Harvard and history, drama and romance combine in a moving, mindful, and entertaining style that invites the reader on a journey that only Hunter, from Harvard, could have imagined.