Howard Hughes wants Oren in his movie Chapt, 32 World of Hurt

Another explosive chapter to enjoy

If you haven't been reading it, shame on you, but if you go to Chapter 32 you will be hooked, trust me.

"Hughes said, “How would you like to be in my movie, Oren?”

Oren hummed a skeptical note.

“Well, Howard, I don’t know about that. I’m no actor.”

“Acting is so easy even those imbecile pretty boys can do it. But you wouldn’t be acting. You’d be a sheriff’s captain.”

Hughes was fishing, so Oren fished back.

“What would I do?”

“Just a few scenes that won’t take any time, but you’d bring authenticity to the part. You could wear your own uniform and that hat Miss Russell seems to like so much.”

Now Oren got it. Hughes wanted him to keep an eye on the actress and report back to him. He didn’t mind Hughes being in his debt, but he sure didn’t want to be his errand boy."

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Chapter 22 World of Hurt: explosive evidence of nuclear testing in Las Vegas

Tyler heaved a weary sigh.

“Yes, sheriff, that is at least partly true, but we monitor weather conditions carefully before every test, and that includes wind direction. Besides, those dust clouds rise to 10,000 feet or more and dissipate quickly. Even if some dust fell locally, the brief half-lives of radionuclides reduces radiation to insignificant readings similar to normal background levels very quickly.”

Tyler talked past Oren to the room.

“Everyone should understand that the low potential for radiation and fallout complications is the main reason the Proving Ground is situated where it is.”

He held up a forefinger.

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Exciting, explosive new World of Hurt chapter 15 published

Richard J Pietschmann's thriller gets 'atom-ized'

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To tease your appetite for reading intriguing fiction mixed with startling facts, here are a couple of excepts:

"Oren expected lots of problems, ones that would be even bigger than atomic bombs"

VEGAS ATOM-IZED

Thousands See, Feel Effects of Detonation

Lively news reports aside, the good citizens of Las Vegas appeared only momentarily alarmed. The newspaper reported a craps player at the Golden Nugget downtown who said he shrugged when he felt the shock, realized the probable cause was an atomic bomb, and went right back to the game.

Chapter 14 of World of Hurt is out and it's a jaw-dropper

World of Hurt Chapter 14

by Richard J Pietschmann

You really need to read this....

Mount Charleston: January 28, 1951

What Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts did not say, and what almost no one knew at the time, was that in mid-1943 Wendover had been designated Site K of the Manhattan Project and code-named “Kingman.” It was located in the largest bombing and gunnery range in the country, bigger even than the huge one north of Las Vegas. “Silverplate” B-29s modified for use as atomic bombers would be based there and the crews that flew them trained there. The 509^th was created entirely for atomic warfare.

Only when he had counted again to five did he cautiously peek through the black lenses at the surging fireball rising over Frenchman Flat. The roiling atomic furnace faded gradually to a fierce rosy glow that pulsed with energy. A sharp cracking rumble hurt his ears and echoed in the valley below. The shock wave hit then, spanking the ground with a rough shove, followed by an almost equally violent second shock. The fireball transformed again into the brilliant blue-purple luminescence of a burning sun. A strong gust of wind whistled, nearly snatching the tarp from him, breaking free tree branches and raining down pine cones. A murky mushroom head shot through with crackling fire supported atop a thin column like a nuclear tornado raced past his eye level and sped for the heavens.

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Chapter 13 of World of Hurt has frightening twist

Oren and Mickey discover frightening event in Las Vegas

World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 13

Here's a teaser that will make you hunger for more

VEGAS A-BOMB POPS

Oren wasn’t the only one who understood that nothing nuclear had popped at all—it was the thunderclap detonation of an ordinary high-explosive bomb dropped in a dry-run simulation of the real thing.  

A sudden breeze puffed out of windless air and riffled the hair poking out underneath Oren’s cattleman hat. That activated the primitive center of his brain, the part devoted entirely to survival. An involuntary warning shiver instantly flashed down his spine and prepared Oren to flee or fight. But then the slower pair of evolved brains wrapped around the ancient core intervened, using reason and experience to tell Oren that he had nothing to fear from the event he had experienced. The breeze was from the flight of a ruthless hunter uninterested in him gliding soundlessly within inches of his head. It would have been the only warning any prey could hope to detect before the great horned owl ripped it apart.

Only then did Oren exhale, the visible breath surprising him with the knowledge that he had stopped breathing.