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Blood Of The Moon: A Thriller Paperback – October 14, 2009

by Richard Gazala (Author)
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David Rivers is a second-generation oilman. From Houston he runs the multinational oil company built by his father, former Apollo astronaut Michael Rivers, one of the last men alive to walk on the moon. Michael now spends his days confined to an assisted-living facility, his mind succumbing to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Somewhere in Michael's crumbling memory is a devastating secret he has revealed to no one in over forty years, not even to his sole surviving child. The secret is the location of a small capsule Michael brought back from the moon in 1972 containing proof that conventional wisdom is a deliberate lie.


With the cryptic aid of an anonymous benefactor deep within the ancient and powerful secret society of the Hostmen of Newcastle, David races to unravel the mysteries shrouding his father's legacy while wars, terrorism, and riots over dwindling oil reserves enflame the planet, and a corrupted American presidential election teeters in the balance. David finds himself confronting the same crisis of conscience his father faced decades before. Should he risk his life and company to expose the Hostmen's lies? Or will he bury what he uncovers and let the world burn?

Blood of the Moon won Honorable Mention in its category (Mystery/Suspense/Thriller) at the Los Angeles DIY Book Festival, and won third place in the Santa Fe Trail Creative Arts Guild Book Competition in the same category. Blood of the Moon has also been named a Finalist the Next Generation Indie Awards for 2010.

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    October 14, 2009
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  5. ISBN-10
    1440166943
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1440166945
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Richard Gazala was born in Ohio, where his father worked in the oil business. He has lived in Lebanon, England, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Virginia. Gazala has practiced law for over twenty years, and is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court. He currently lives in Virginia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (October 14, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440166943
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440166945
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.89 x 9 inches
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Richard Gazala is the author of the award-winning international conspiracy action thriller, Blood of the Moon. Born in Ohio, when he was young his family moved to Lebanon, where he lived until the Lebanese Civil War erupted. After leaving Lebanon, he finished high school in Massachusetts, and England. While living abroad he traveled around the Middle East and Europe, picking up enough Arabic and French to embrace or avoid trouble as circumstances dictated. He attended Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, where he earned a B.A. and a J.D. He has been a lawyer for over thirty years, and is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court. He currently lives in Virginia, where he’s an author, voracious reader, lawyer, music aficionado, guerrilla chef, excursionist, public speaker, and pretty handy around the house, too. Please feel free to visit his web site at http://www.richardgazala.com, follow his musings on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Richard_Gazala, or drop by Gazalapalooza, his authors' blog, at http://www.rgazala.blogspot.com. Happy reading.

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Gina Tanner
5.0 out of 5 stars Gazala has that most important gift of any thriller writer: perfect timing.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2009
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With "Blood Of The Moon", Richard Gazala draws us into the very near - and very dark - future, where the wholesale price of gasoline hovers around $13 a gallon. His characters are plausible, simply because we know (or know of) people so very like them. Especially refreshing is protagonist David Rivers, who - unlike Jason Bourne or Dirk Pitt - doesn't save the day by suddenly developing an entirely new skill set. (There is, however, one very dangerous femme fatale with the instincts of a black widow spider and more lives than a cat.)

Gazala has that most important gift of any thriller writer: perfect timing. His plot, which concerns the potential discovery of mineral deposits on the moon, dovetails perfectly with our recent bombing of the lunar surface (seeking water vapor.) He seems either eerily prescient, or else "wired-in." It makes a good read even better.
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J. Goodman
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific thriller with entertaining twists!
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2009
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This book is an enjoyable thriller because of its clearly entertaining plot and how the many story lines are aptly sewn together by this talented author. The many descriptions of various locales makes the novel both vivid and the short chapters make it fast paced. The unanticipated ending took me for surprise because even though there were some twists that I could see coming, and the excellent writing kept me wanting to see how it turns out, the ending was not at all what I imagined. Tough book to put down, and despite the dark side of human nature depicted, it is an enjoyable read. If you like a good mystery with various plots weaved together, this book is for you.
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Gerald G. Griffin
4.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable read of fiction fighting truth
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2011
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Masterfully written by Richard Gazala, "Blood of the Moon" is a fast-paced thriller about oil, the controlling puppeteer maneuvering the string of interpersonal upheaval for each well-developed character in the challenging twists and turns of the book until almost but one is left standing.

The tumultuous action in this well-crafted, oil chaos plot unfolds in the July summer of 2016, at which time, because of oil, the world's in a mess: interminable Oil Wars inflicting unpardonable suffering upon humanity resulting from diminishing oil supplies. This myth is promulgated by a powerful secret society, the Hostmen of Newcastle, for its own profit, backed up by its ecoterrorist muscle, the Seed Underground. Though knowing better, the Hostmen deceive the world into believing that the world's oil supplies are finite, and once it's used up, it's gone forever. This ingrained lie promoting the ostensible ever-increasing scarcity of oil is what makes it so valuable, causing the skyrocketing cost of petroleum.

But then oil is secretly discovered on the moon; abiotic oil---non-fossil, meaning that oil is not created exclusively from the decay of living organisms over millions of years, but is produced constantly in an ongoing geologic process replenishing itself every decade. With this knowledge oil would become tremendously cheaper, ending the Oil Wars.

The Hostmen are not about to let this knowledge be known and destroy them. Cheap oil would cause the global oil industry to collapse upon itself and bring catastrophe to the Hostmen world. Keeping the reader riveted with suspense, the Hostmen set out on a fierce campaign of murder, blackmail, bribery, manipulation and betrayal to keep the secret of the moon discovery just that, a secret.

Which will win out, truth or fiction? The conclusion will amaze the reader.

Waiting for Gazala's next book.
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David Coops
5.0 out of 5 stars First time author puts out a first rate suspense novel
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2009
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I am a big fan of first time authors. They have a focus and level of creativity that is not formulaic or predicatable, but carries the reader through the story as if they are reading it aloud to you. "Blood of the Moon" is that kind of book. Characters are well developed, the story takes great twist and turns, and the story comes together in well tied but unexpected ways. The relevance of the story to our times - where we will find new sources of energy, how politics affects more than we realize - adds to the tension by making it all so plausible. A must read for suspense lovers!
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Richard Gengler
3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better.
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2011
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Overall, the book was entertaining. The subject matter and the concept of the book were very appealing to me. But there were some things, though, that really detracted from the story, for me. There were plot lines included that didn't go anywhere or didn't added enough to the story. I realize that this is a thriller, but too many things happened that seemed to be added just to have a sensational moment, and a couple were quite bizarre and unbelievable.
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Judith Nachshin
5.0 out of 5 stars Timely, Intelligent Political Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2009
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First, Richard Gazala is a damn good writer. Second, he weaves a
hell of a story. Third, his book reads and is constructed
like a movie script (that's a good thing). I truly loved
99% of the book (that's a really good thing). I usually
don't like anything. A great, timely, unique and
riveting story, I couldn't put it down. I can usually
guess at any twists and turns coming, and he surprised me a
number of times. I can't wait to read his second book.

Judith Nachshin
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JoAnn
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing first book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2010
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I can not believe this is Rich Gazala's first book! I was hooked right away, and found myself devouring this book. As many of the other reviewers have said, the twists and turns really catch you by surprise and keep you hanging on with anticipation. It seems very well researched and I find it a bit frightening how possible it is that it is true! I can't wait for round two from this writer's mind.
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Scott Brunger
4.0 out of 5 stars Who is behind OPEC?
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2010
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Richard Gazala, a Washington lawyer who studied in the Middle East, has written a global thriller that moves quickly from the moon to Texas to Venezuela to Europe to the Arab world and to Washington in search of the masterminds behind the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The action is exciting, the characters are well drawn, and the result is satisfying. All in all a good read!
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