Alan L. Moss - Biography

THE PROMISE OF THE COPPER SCROLL

IN PREPARATION

On an early morning in July 2019, a minor quake unearths a copper scroll from the walls of a Qumran cave near the Dead Sea. The scroll finds its way to an antiquities dealer in Jordan and then to Professor Samuel Wadsworth at the Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. If he can properly interpret the information on the scroll, Wadsworth believes it will lead to billions of dollars in gold, silver, and rare ornaments hidden in the year 70 AD to deny the invading Romans the valuable assets of the Second Temple. When word of the scroll's discovery reaches the Iranians, they organize a terrorist team to locate, seize, and follow the scroll to its treasure.

Three brave women pursue the copper scroll despite the terrorist violence surrounding it.

Nancy Troll is a senior at Drexel University. She dedicates her senior project to researching the scroll and preparing a series of newspaper articles that may lead to her recognition as an up-and-coming reporter. Her intense love affair and witnessing of terrorist activity do not stand in the way of her dedication.

Carol Stark is the secretary/assistant to Professor Wadsworth. She sees the scroll as a means to eliminate her family's burdensome debt resulting from her husband's uncontrolled betting on sports. Her complex scheme must withstand unpredictable barriers, including those launched by the Iranian terrorists.

Joan MacLennan is the attractive Regional FBI Chief in charge of combatting the deadly violence plaguing the area by the Iranian terrorists. She must take decisive action to save the scroll from the Iranians and smooth its way to a New York City antiquities museum.

Seeking the scroll becomes an unpredictable shell game with death and destruction facing each of the players.

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Selected Works

Fiction - Thriller

The Choices

Sixty-six million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid crashed into the Yucatan peninsula. Its heat and dust killed the dinosaurs and most other species on the planet. Based on newly generated NASA measurements, and a unique theory, a Ph.D. geology student concludes that the asteroid created a fortune in hidden diamonds, ready for the taking. Available as paperback, E-book, and hard cover.

The Samoa Seduction

The Samoa Seduction is the story of two strong-willed individuals haunted by their love for one another while being manipulated by a deadly conspiracy.

Surviving The Endgame

A vicious CEO takes control of the conspiracy to corner the market for rare earth minerals. With their presidential candidate in the lead, the conspirators will stop at nothing to propel him into the world's most powerful office. Rob and his allies seek to influence the election while the CEO's paramour resists her dominance and threatens exposure.

Insidious Deception

An American pre-med student working as a summer deckhand postpones medical school to seek revenge for the loss of his lover while a brilliant college professor promotes an innovative strategy for Middle East peace, democracy, and prosperity. Both become entangled in conspiracies hatched by al Qaeda and a ruthless CEO.

Biography

Alan L Moss is a unique and emerging voice in the thriller genre. His published novels spin sophisticated tales of conspiracy, adventure, love, sex, revenge, and subterfuge. His protagonists are educated people driven to reach outside their routine environments to oppose forces that are far superior. Plots involve complex schemes to amass power and wealth, often concerning substances, innovations, scientific breakthroughs, and exotic locations not well known by the general public.

Alan's latest published novel, The Choices (Cresting Wave Publishing 2021), is a treasure-based adventure that exposes readers to the nation's growing problem with alt right forces. After losing his wife to a violent hate crime, Gary Levin comes into the possession of a wounded golden retriever and mysterious flash drive that set him on a perilous treasure hunt for diamonds born when the Chicxulub asteroid crashed into the Yucatan peninsula sixty-six million years ago.

In his previously published work, The Samoa Seduction (W&B Publishers 2015) two strong willed individuals are haunted by their love for one another while being manipulated by a deadly conspiracy.

The story is an eye opening thriller that combines murder, a steamy affair, and government corruption with a drug company conspiracy and industry efforts to suppress wages. Magnificent settings include Samoa's lush scenery, the Central Canterbury Plains of New Zealand's south island, a resort on Hawaii's Molokai Island, the TranzAlpine Railroad, and tuna fishing vessels on the Tasman Sea.

Before that work, Alan focussed on The Insidious Deception Saga that chronicles how a pre-med student and brilliant college professor become entangled in conspiracies hatched by al Qaeda and a ruthless CEO. The two resulting novels include:Insidious Deception (Whiskey Creek Press 2013), which deals with the market for rare earth minerals and Middle East conflict and resolution during widespread Arab demonstrations; and the sequel, Surviving the Endgame (Whiskey Creek Press 2014), in which a presidential election becomes a deadly contest between international conspirators and those seeking their destruction. That novel explores issues of the U.S. presidential election process, manipulation of public opinion, investigative reporting, illicit drone use, and nuclear energy.

Turning to Alan's nonfiction work, in May 2008 Praeger Publishing released Selling-Out America’s Democracy. The book shows how special interests, through their lobbyists and the U.S. system of campaign financing, have denied a majority of the American population the policies they seek and have led the nation into a period of decline. The book includes telling interviews of Washington insiders and a four-part plan to restore the U.S. democracy. Copies are available at www.amazon.com and other web book sites.

Alan is a member of the Authors Guild and International Thriller Writers.