Reap the Wind, a thriller by Joel Burcat
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Reap the Wind
Josh Goldberg is a young lawyer from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm. His girlfriend Kiesha is unconscious and in the hospital. She’s eight months pregnant and may be giving birth to their baby. He’s in Houston and she’s in Cincinnati, one-thousand miles away. The worst climate change-induced hurricane of the century separates them and there are no flights for days.
He manages to rent an old Lincoln Continental limo from his friend, the limo driver. His travel companions are his alcohol and drug-addicted best friend and his boss who connives to derail his arrangements so she can get to Philadelphia for a business meeting. Also, she has lascivious plans for Josh.
Josh is torn between taking a perilous road-trip to be with the woman he loves or riding out the hurricane in his five-star hotel room. Then he finds out the former love of Kiesha’s life is her new doctor. Finally, all of his doubts are cast aside and he decides to make the insane drive to be with her. The problem is the odyssey may be a suicide trip.
You can purchase Reap the Wind at the following retailers: Amazon, Sunbury Books.
Praise for Reap the Wind
“Dangerous climate change, by some measure, is already here, and it’s a matter of how bad we’re willing to let it get. “Reap The Wind” by Joel Burcat is a great story. Burcat provides us with a compelling fictional account of what climate dangers may lurk in our future if we fail to act on climate. Reap the Wind is a gripping tale that engages both the head and the heart.”— Michael E. Mann, Pres. Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Author Pet Corner!
Joel Burcat — Author of Reap the Wind
Joel Burcat is an author and environmental lawyer. REAP THE WIND (Sunbury Press, Inc.) will be released in February 2024. It is an action/adventure thriller about three lawyers fleeing from Houston to Cincinnati in a Lincoln Town Car though a climate change-induced hurricane.
DRINK TO EVERY BEAST (2019) was his debut novel. It is an environmental legal thriller about illegal dumping of toxic waste. AMID RAGE (2021) was his second novel. It is an thriller about coal strip mining. His third book was STRANGE FIRE (2022), and is about fracking in north-central Pa. He has won awards from PennWriters, Next Gen. Indie Book Awards, New York Festival of Books, Readers’ Favorite, ScreenCraft, and others. STRANGE FIRE won the Gold Medal for environmental fiction from Readers’ Favorite books and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Week. He has written dozens of short stories (from the best beer he ever had, to horror, to murder for hire) and six have been published.
John Lescroart (THE 13TH JUROR) has called his writing “complex and intelligent, deftly plotted and character rich.”
William Landay (DEFENDING JACOB) has said of STRANGE FIRE, “It is a dark suspenseful read…handled with gritty style. A treat for thriller fans.”
“I want my readers to feel they are with my characters in the courtroom, a canoe on a polluted river, a strip mine, or in a hurricane. I write so my readers see, feel, and smell what my characters are seeing, feeling, and smelling. If my characters are scared, my readers will be scared too. That is the ultimate goal of a writer.”
He was selected as the 2019 Lawyer of the Year in Environmental Litigation (for Central PA) by Best Lawyers in America. He has been designated by both “Super Lawyers” and “Best Lawyers” for environmental and oil and gas law. In addition to his law practice, he edited two non-fiction books on environmental and energy law and has written numerous professional articles on environmental law.
Burcat lives in Harrisburg, Pa. with his wife, Gail.
You can learn more about Joel at the following sites: Website, Facebook, X & Instagram.
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