Gridlock

SUMMARY: Gridlock Is When A City Dies. Killed In The Name Of Freedom. Killed In The Name Of Oil And Steel. Choked On Carbon Monoxide And Strangled With A Pair Of Fluffy Dice. How Did It Come To This? How Did The Ultimate Freedom Machine End Up Paralysing Us All? How Did We End Up Driving To Our Own Funeral, In Somebody Else S Gravy Train?Deborah And Geoffrey Know, But They Have Transport Problems Of Their Own, And Anyway, Whoever It Was That Murdered The City Can Just As Easily Murder Them. Two Iranian agents hand over one million dollars to a Russian engineer for a thumbdrive. The drive contains a deadly computer virus that could shut down all electrical power in the United States at a keystroke. In rural North Dakota, a lineman is electrocuted, and the local cop sent to investigate is shot to death. As rolling electrical blackouts begin to shut down major US cities, the war for energy domination begins. Two nations are behind this deadly attack: Venezuela and Iran, intent on destroying the present world order and bringing an arrogant America to its knees. Their agent of terror is Yuri Makarov, a former Spetsnaz officer, the best of the best among the shadow world of killers for hire. When governments are powerless to stop such a man from sending the United States back to the horse-and-buggy era, North Dakota county sheriff Nate Osborne and brash journalist Ashley Borden once again step into the breach Deborah is a woman with personal transportation problems which she and her strange friend Geoffrey intend to solve. If they manage it, the knock-on effect could just save the cities of the world from driving themselves to their own funerals in man's greatest invention.