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    Dr. Nof Is Missing
    Dr. Nof Is Missing
    Dr. Nof Is Missing
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    Dr. Nof Is Missing

    By Thadd Evans

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    Dr. Nof, a biochemist who has traveled to a moon called Barom in order to find a cure for plagues, is missing. Because dangerous beasts roam Barom’s jungles, finding her will be a challenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateApr 14, 2017
    ISBN9781487409982
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      Dr. Nof Is Missing - Thadd Evans

      Is she alive or did a beast devour her?

      Dr. Nof, a biochemist who has traveled to a moon called Barom in order to find a cure for plagues, is missing. Because dangerous beasts roam Barom’s jungles, finding her will be a challenge.

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Dr. Nof Is Missing

      Copyright © 2017 Thadd Evans

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0998-2

      Cover art by Carmen Waters

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Dr. Nof Is Missing

      Michael Brin, Homicide Detective, Book 2

      By

      Thadd Evans

      Dedication

      Nan Serrins, my mother

      Chapter One

      It was the year 4012. I was sitting in a café, close to Galactic Station Sixteen’s space hangar, talking to Dawn, an Aito woman with turquoise skin, a beauty I had met a few minutes ago.

      She touched my hand. Let’s go to my room for some fun.

      I nodded. My phone rang.

      Tesk appeared in my contact lens. He frowned. I have a new assignment for you. Go to the moon called Barom. A biochemist, Doctor Nof, is missing. You must find her. Your IPT leaves in six hours.

      I scowled, wanting to spend the night with Dawn.

      She rubbed my thigh.

      I blinked. We can’t spend much time together.

      She cooed, A few hours together is good enough for me.

      The IPT, or Intergalactic Personnel Transporter, went into orbit around Barom. A floor-mounted hatch opened. I went through it, entering a PPC, or Planetary Personnel Carrier, and sat next to the pilot, an Aito with a high forehead. The PPC separated from the IPT, then dropped. Tesk had given me a bag filled with seashells, all of them worth four hundred Mekos, the form of cash the indigenous Ub used.

      The pilot waved his hand over a motion sensitive screen. I’m Captain Ota. Welcome aboard.

      Thanks. Tell me more about my next destination.

      When we’re a few feet above the Daop Ocean, you’ll climb down a ladder onto a ship named the Foon. Its captain, Kolq, a member of the Ub race along with his crew, will take you to Yerx, the island where Doctor Nof was last seen.

      Why don’t you take me to Yerx?

      He scowled. If I did, our carrier would crash because of severe downdrafts in the area over and within a five mile radius of the island. We’re headed for a spot that is six miles off its west coast.

      According to my lenses’ files, the Foon is made of wood. Why didn’t they use carbon nanotubes, steel, iron or plastic?

      "Eighteen years ago, a group of scientists from Maen, a university on Galactic Station Sixteen, sent a six-inch-long compressed ship called the Horizon to a location that was two thousand miles from Yerx. After a PPC dropped it in the ocean, it expanded until the vessel was forty feet long.

      "The crew boarded it and set sail for Yemo, an island that was far from Yerx. During the voyage, a trip that was to last two weeks, the entire crew died. Four days after the drop, a PPC went down to check on the Horizon because its crew hadn’t transmitted or responded to emails since their arrival.

      "Knowing they didn’t have the resources to figure out what killed the crew, the PPC’s crew compressed the Horizon and took the one foot long ship to an IPC. The IPC transported it to GSS. Six months later, using holograms and software, scientists discovered that the crew died because fourteen different fish species had sent hundreds of electrical shocks through the Horizon’s hull.

      After running more tests, scientists also found out the shocks would kill the crew of any ship with a hull made of iron, aluminum, or any metal.

      What if the hull was constructed of wood and metal?

      "The scientists, a team of physicists, biologists and biochemists, conducted

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