The Polar Track

If you are an Alaskan one of the most desired dreams would be a land connection with the lower-48 without having to drive the 2000+ miles. Flying is fine, and you could take the ferry from Anchorage to Prince Rupert, B.C., but a rail line would transfer more passengers and cargo at a more economical rate.My novel, Polar Track, features a monorail with magnetic-levitation propulsion. Suspended below the reinforced-concrete track is a cluster of insulated pipelines which can convey oil, natural gas and – water America needs just as much – water from glacial melting.

The protagonist is, above all things, a music teachers whose family was killed in a collision with a fast-ferry owned by the same company building the “mag-lev’ line. Because he can’t get justice through regular means he intends to blow up a section of the Polar Trak to get the public’s attention. To accomplish this he recruits the help of a decorated Canadian sniper and, as a result, has special forces teams from both Canada and the U.S involved in a massive manhunt for the pair.

This was fun to write because it floats on a new technology (I love researching this stuff!) and it appears that magnetic levitation and hydogen technology are the wave of the future. The story isn’t as much on revenge as it is about how a little guy is frozen out of the legal system by money and perjured testimony. The way he sees it he has two choice: The first is that he can go through life and put it behind him (which works for a while) or, second, he can confront the company in a way that get everyones’ attention.

Too much time on my hands?