The story is part mystery, part science fiction (or is it?). What they discover is truly an amazing operation.

Wes suggests that they go to the Bay Area to talk to Silicon Valley programmers he knows. To get there, they enlist Svetla a Bulgarian born Guber driver (think Uber). Together they take a boat to Seattle where they meet Calvin Carmody, a professor of Ancient Languages at the University of Washington (a former professor of Tzaro).Ĭarmody is able to decipher part of the mystery and suggests they go to Portland to talk to Wes an old school computer programmer. Not knowing what it means, he enlists the aid of Walter, a Native American friend and mechanic and Morgan a friend of Therica who is visiting. The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of ConrailRichard Saunders. Checking her computer, Tzaro finds a subliminal clue in her social media website. Song of a Soul (Victorian Serenade Series 4)Lawana Blackwell, This Undeniable Craving. His girlfriend Therica starts to exhibit some of the strange behavior. Tzaro Janssen is a seismologist living on Orcas Island in the San Juans. It begins against the scenic backdrop of the San Juan.

All around the world are cases of humans doing completely inexplicable things – murders, suicides, other acts of mayhem. Richard Sanfords new novel The Soul Snatchers is an energetic and entertaining romp through Cascadia. The social media on the Internet has taken over people’s lives. The locales include the San Juan Islands in Washington State, Seattle, Portland (Oregon) and the Bay Area of California. Richard Sandford in his novel The Soul Snatchers has achieved both scenarios.

To this reader, two of the scariest book and life scenarios are that of cybersecurity and cyberterrorism.

The Soul Snatchers by Richard Sanford