Far below a street in Rio, a building’s foundation collapses. In China, an apartment block caves in. The deadly accidents aren’t much more than passing headlines for Paul Hewitt, a Wall Street broker carving a career out of million-dollar deals.

But business suddenly gets personal when a Manhattan subway tunnel collapses. Paul uncovers disturbing connections between the accidents, but the deeper he digs, the more the official explanations just don’t add up.

His search leads to a shocking discovery: millions of tons of glass and steel are sitting on an environmental time bomb.

Faced by a conspiracy of silence he races against time to expose the truth while the power brokers will resort to anything—including murder—to protect their interests.

SD Livingston

Tech lover. Accidental historian. This is where history and tech collide.

We Are Not Human Without Our Technology

We Are Not Human Without Our Technology

Look into a chimp’s eyes and it’s almost like looking in a mirror. You can see the awareness, the almost-humanness, gazing right back at you. You might even get the uncanny feeling that, with a couple of evolutionary sidesteps, we’d be sitting in a very different spot…

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A small red squirrel sitting at a laptop. The squirrel is staring intently at the screen, and its paws are poised over the keyboard as if ready to type.

Control Your Tech with Your Thoughts

When The Matrix hit theatres back in 1999, it seemed like pure science fiction. A world where human brains and computers could directly interact? Impossible. But fast forward to today and the idea is reality. In fact, you could soon be able to control your thermostat…

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Here’s Why Multitasking Slows You Down

Here’s Why Multitasking Slows You Down

Watching someone juggle makes us apprehensive. Each time they add an orange or a bowling ball, the risk of failure goes up. We wait, wide-eyed, knowing that one small slip could make the whole thing fall apart. After all, they only have two hands, and there’s no way…

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Other Books

The Secret of the Mummy’s Tomb

On a creaking, windblown night, 11-year-old Madeline Mott’s dad disappears from the museum. He’s the Keeper of Unusual Items, so it’s no surprise that she finds

The Riddle of the Phantom Knight

After a frightening adventure in ancient Egypt, Madeline Mott wants nothing more than to be reunited with her dad at the museum. But the mysterious stone

The Mystery of the Viking Ship

Madeline and Jack’s adventures steer them onto mysterious, mist-covered shores when they find themselves aboard a Viking ship—headed for a land where shape-shifting berserkers are stealing Viking gold.

A Queen’s Revenge

The invaders promised peace. Peace to the ancient Celtic kingdoms that obeyed them. But oaths are only honoured between men, and when King Prasutagus dies the Roman invaders bring a new threat to Queen Boudicca: relinquish power or die.

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“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

– Albert Einstein