Vernon William Baumann
The Disappeared
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(Vernon William Baumann Nov. 3, 2012)
, 2nd edition
INTRODUCING THE NEWLY REVISED AND EDITED 2ND EDITION: STREAMLINED FOR THE KINDLE EXPERIENCE.
They’re all gone.
Something terrible happened in Bishop.
Something so terrible, and secret, no-one could know.
On the morning of the 27th of September, the residents of Bishop, a small town in South Africa, awake into a nightmare.
Lindiwe, a recovering alcoholic from Johannesburg, discovers that her gogo (grandmother) has disappeared into thin air overnight. Joshua, a hitch hiker with a secret, awakes on the banks of the Elandsriver and realises that all the insect and bird life have mysteriously vanished. Inspector Jan Coetzee, station commander of the local police station, arrives for work and discovers all his police officers have disappeared, the only clue being disturbing inscriptions in the police log book. Duggan, the local computer geek and conspiracy theorist, finds that all communications to the outside world have been inexplicably severed. And Minki, a ten-year old girl, keeps on having violent visions of impending death.
But the mystery deepens. Except for a handful of survivors, the entire population of Bishop has completely vanished overnight. Without any signs of struggle. Without a trace.
What does the enigmatic Obsidian Corporation have to do with the strange events? And why is a top secret US black-ops team on its way to Bishop?
As the survivors band together, can they discover the fate of the disappeared? Before the same fate befalls them.
They’re all gone.
Something terrible happened in Bishop.
Something so terrible, and secret, no-one could know.
On the morning of the 27th of September, the residents of Bishop, a small town in South Africa, awake into a nightmare.
Lindiwe, a recovering alcoholic from Johannesburg, discovers that her gogo (grandmother) has disappeared into thin air overnight. Joshua, a hitch hiker with a secret, awakes on the banks of the Elandsriver and realises that all the insect and bird life have mysteriously vanished. Inspector Jan Coetzee, station commander of the local police station, arrives for work and discovers all his police officers have disappeared, the only clue being disturbing inscriptions in the police log book. Duggan, the local computer geek and conspiracy theorist, finds that all communications to the outside world have been inexplicably severed. And Minki, a ten-year old girl, keeps on having violent visions of impending death.
But the mystery deepens. Except for a handful of survivors, the entire population of Bishop has completely vanished overnight. Without any signs of struggle. Without a trace.
What does the enigmatic Obsidian Corporation have to do with the strange events? And why is a top secret US black-ops team on its way to Bishop?
As the survivors band together, can they discover the fate of the disappeared? Before the same fate befalls them.
- Pages
- 467