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What would happen if the entire California electrical grid went down? You don't want to know...but you MUST! Find out about his exciting thriller about this catastrophe-in-waiting and more as we meet the author, Christopher J. Lynch, who has inside info on our country\u2019s vulnerabilities. He\u2019s also an adventurer and the biographer of the iconic child actor who played the conniving Eddie Haskell on the TV series Leave it to Beaver.

Lynch is the author of the ONE EYED JACK crime novel series about a professional blackmailer. The debut novel in the series was a 2013 Shamus Award finalist,\nand a 2014 Writers Digest honorable mention for genre fiction.

He's also the author of, EDDIE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMERICA\u2019S PREEMINENT BAD BOY, the biography of Ken Osmond, the iconic child actor who played Eddie Haskell on the TV series Leave it to Beaver.

His latest work, DARK STATE, is a chilling modern-day thriller about a terrorist attack that takes down California\u2019s electrical grid. Imagine if the world\u2019s 5th-largest economy went dark\u2014it\u2019s not pretty.

Listen in as we discuss:

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• DARK STATE and its parallels to the recent substations attacks in North Carolina and Washington\nState.
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• How I conceived of DARK STATE, and the amazing availability of open source information I was able\nto find on the internet.
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• The \u201crotten onion\u201d power grid
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• The main characters he chose in DARK STATE, and how he also wrote short vignettes to cover other\nindividuals and how they would be impacted by a devastating power outage.
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• Why you should have certain supplies in your home in case of disaster.
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• The awful truth about extended loss of power.
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• The myth of \u201crugged individualism.\u201d
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• The truth about Leave it to Beaver actor Ken Osmond and porn actor John Holmes.
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• His work leading blind hikers up a mountain and back.
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• And more!
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Website: Christopherjlynch.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.j.lynch.3?fref=ts

BUY DARK STATE here.

BUY EDDIE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMERICA\u2019S PREEMINENT BAD BOY here.

BUY ONE EYED JACK here.

Lynch believes in working with his fellow authors and has helped numerous aspiring writers achieve their dream by offering free self-publishing seminars. Not one to be limited to speaking in the comfortable settings of libraries or writing groups, he also taught writing in a maximum-security prison for several years. He even helped get one of the inmate\u2019s books published on Amazon.

And finally, he is an adventurer who has climbed some of the highest peaks in the world including Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and trekked to Mount Everest Base Camp. He also trained and led nine blind hikers to 10,000 ft. Mount Baldy, the third-highest peak in Southern California. He\u2019s also ridden his bike across Cuba, Alaska, and the American south. And, he\u2019s flown on the zero-G plane, aka: \u201cThe Vomit Comet.\u201d\n

Don't miss it!

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This Mysterious Goings On Podcast episode was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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