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The Price of Tranquility
The Price of Tranquility the third in a series of six books written by by Arnold J. Inzko. If there is sufficient interest in this one, we will try to offer others of the series in the future.
The Consolidated North American States as well as the Consolidated States of Europe are enjoying an extended period of tranquility in 2022. Both countries are mining in a joint venture for the element Tybium, a new and clean energy source. Dr. EMILY WOODLOCK, the Supreme Chancellor of the CNAS, sent BEN NEIDERMEIER and his team to take a look at the mining operation in Pakindia. While he was observing the operation, a front end loader dropped into a bottomless shaft. Ben Neidermeier and his team investigate. He ordered Sergeant WILLY WALKER, a glider boss, to take his team to the end of the shaft. They traveled more than one mile below the surface of the earth, before they reached bottom. To their immense surprise, they found a modern city with Sumerians living in it. Ben Neidermeier met NIMALI, a beautiful, 306 year old Sumerian Physician. While she checked him for diseases, she detected that he has Sumerian blood flowing in his veins. She convinced him to copulate with her, to save the Sumerian race below, because they have lost the ability to reproduce, living for 300,000 years below the surface of the earth. Nimaly became pregnant with a healthy male and she named him BENSON. Ben Neidermeier’s wife, MALIKA, found out about her husband’s illicit affair and her life was slowly collapsing around her. Eventually however, she found a way to forgive him but she never forgot the incident.
Later, Ben Neidermeier and Malika visited ARAMU, the lead Sumerian to learn more about their culture. Malika met Nimali during one of their scientific exchanges and Ben Neidermeier used all of his diplomacy to keep the rival women apart from each other. HILDA, Ben Neidermeier’s mother by marriage, convinced Malika to invite Nimali for dinner at Ben Neidermeier’s home. At first their relationship was stressed, but in due course and to Ben Neidermeier’s surprise, Malika and Nimali found common ground, nurtured by their interest in science. Later they visited Aramu, in his city, below. During this visit, Ben Neidermeier and Malika found that the peace-loving Sumerians call themselves Urians and they were forced underground by their warlike antagonists, the Igitans.
The Igitans live above ground and they frequently traveled from earth to their outpost on the planet Titan. They also frequently engaged in meetings with heads of state in South America to establish a strong dictatorship. The earthlings united with the Urians to battle the Igitans on earth and in outer space to prevent the creation of a dictatorship in South America. Fortunately, the leaders of the free world successfully concealed the occasional violent outbreaks and maintained an aura of tranquility. However, below the facade, Sergeant Willy Walker took out one of the Igitan’s anti gravity gliders, while they were hiding in a cave at the foot hills of the Andes Mountain. The Igitans retaliated and killed SETH CANFIELD, an undercover agent, while he was staking the Igitans.
This is just one instance where Tranquility demanded its Price.
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