Woods Hole Tale
Alan Steinbach
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction, thriller
Word count: 160,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, graphic sexual content, swearing
Woods Hole, Massachusetts: a village clinging to the southwestern tip of Cape Cod, three feet above mean high tide, home to world-class science and the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. People live there, and arrive. The village is real. The people in this story are not. A hurricane is coming. The water always finds the low places. So does everything else. Please note: this book is only available in PDF format. This book is also over 120,000 words, so you will have three weeks to complete it, and the bonus will be £15.
Woods Hole Tale is a polyphonic novel set in and around the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where the tidal rhythms of science, sex, and organized crime converge with hurricane force. Dana Albu, trafficked from Albania and remade into a loyal American wife, navigates impossible loyalties between the Albanian mob and the MBL Director who employs and eventually tortures her. Lina West, young, black, and catastrophically curious, sleeps her way toward power and rescues a vanload of trafficked women mid-hurricane. Dr. Elvin Kokot quietly pirates scientific research on behalf of Mihai Marku’s criminal empire.
Alan Burr Steinbach B.A.University of Rochester, New York 1962, Chemistry: Ph.D. The Rockefeller University 1967 Biophysics and Physiology: M.D.The University of Miami, Florida 1976 Ph.D. to M.D. Medical License MA230390. Diplomate ABFM. Clinical Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley. Research interests: Appropriate technology, Problem Based Group Process, Local Concerns of Climate Change, Medical Aid in Dying.
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