The Take-Us

“Every time the price of gas goes up everything else follows.”

John Christenson, an ex-paratrooper, a former high-rise ironworker, and a widower develops an idea and then invents an automobile that uses no gasoline. Instead, the auto creates its own motive power, electricity, as it travels down the road. He realizes his invention has the potential to change the power structure of the world. No longer would progressive nations be enslaved to the oil producing countries of the world.

With the help of Leena Delaney, a beautiful television reporter, he develops a simple plan: Drive the auto from New York City to San Francisco without using any gasoline and have the adventure captured on live national television.

The plan is simple to implement but damned hard to finish in a world where the price of life is measured by the cost of a barrel of oil. Like so many other promising solutions, freedom’s enemies need to seize and control it. Countries and companies band together in an attempt to destroy the auto and once again demonstrate an oil-free alternative to be just another over-hyped worthless technology.

With pursuers both in front and behind them, John and Leena must fight their way through ambushes from Indiana to Nevada and even a firefight in his own home in California. The fast-paced story concludes in downtown San Francisco to an explosive and unexpected finish.