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BRYANT WIENEKE
Author of the Priority Series of
Political Thrillers
Full list provided below
Eternal Moments, the tenth novel in my Priority Series, is a contemporary political thriller set alternately in a fractious Washington D.C. and the mysterious Sahara Desert. The full list of books in this series is provided below and at the "BOOKS" tab.
In 1994, I quit a good job to see if I could be a novelist. I chose the political thriller genre because my books describe characters who try to solve complex global, regional and local problems non-violently. Not surprisingly, politics often gets in the way.
Undeterred, Kendall Smith pursues this goal by applying his expertise and training in the desperate search for water at the southern edge of an expanding Sahara. Despite the awesome nature of the challenge, and the numerous life-or-death situations that he faces, he begins to suspect that there is a spiritual component to his quest, mirrored in nature and the human journey. My attempt to present this phenomenon, no matter how ephemeral, is the ultimate goal of my writing.
I have also written three books in what I call my "AHA Moments" series. These short books are not full biographies, but rather mini-bios that focus on the precise moment when everything clicked for certain iconic scientific figures, changing the world forever.
Rachel Carson was an eminent scientist and the foremost nature writer in the United States when she stumbled upon the realization of what the indiscriminate use of insecticides and pesticides was doing to water systems, plants and animals, and ultimately the health of the American people. A soft-spoken and introverted person, Carson sacrificed a successful career to campaign against this short-sighted contamination of the earth, while she herself was dying of breast cancer. This book is a very personal look at the author of Silent Spring - and an American heroine.
The Day Albert Einstein Discovered Relativity tells the story of how the 26-year-old scientist, working in a Swiss patent office while married with a small child, made one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history. While his thinking was wildly imaginative in his application of mathematical formulas to his thought experiment, the logic of his process is accessible to us all.
The Day Charles Darwin Discovered Natural Selection allows the reader to join this ordinary but perspicacious and persistent young man as he examines animal and plant life from a new perspective, seeing what many have seen before him, but understanding it in a strange and wonderful way.
Priority Series Novels
MY BOOKS
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