Fiction Reading List: Summer Reading 2011

Mark’s twelve year old son, Kyle, disappears one night and nine years later, on the same day, a natural gas pipeline in Russia is blown up by terrorists, opening up a new lead in Kyle's case.
F VANCE LE

Fallon Jones, investigator of the paranormal, is sent to research Scargill Cove, a secluded coastal town in northern California which is a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy.
F KRENTZ J

Centers on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnets, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist.
F SINCLAIR

Leo Painter, the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining, and real-estate development firm, travels to Botswana, a country rich in extractable resources that Leo--and the U.S. government--would love to access.
M RAMSAY F

Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen year old, is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement which is a rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and locally made goods.
F CHUTE CA

When Joe Gallagher goes to work for an energy trading company in Boston where the firm's traders jockey to make bets on the effects of an upcoming hurricane.
F MCMEEL C

Sabrina Galloway, a young Chicago professor, becomes a hands-on scientist in Florida with EcoEnergy, a company that specializes in TCP-a process that converts refuse and other waste material into oil.
F KAVA A