
By MURRAY LEINSTER
CHAPTER I. - WITHOUT WARNING.
CHAPTER II. - IN AN OPEN CAR.
CHAPTER III. - DECLARING WAR.
CHAPTER IV. - INTO THE DESOLATION.
CHAPTER V. - TRICKED.
CHAPTER VI. - SCIENTIST AT BAY.
CHAPTER VII. - THE HEART OF THE STORM.
CHAPTER VIII. - PRESTON'S FORTRESS.
Inspector Hines barely escapes a crash when an amateur driver shoves a battered flivver into his roadster, wrecking the car but sparing his life. The near‑miss sends him back to the Catskills just as an inexplicable storm begins to unfold, a storm that seems to steal heat from the sun itself. From a quiet farmhouse, Kathryn Bush watches the daylight turn cold and colorless, while distant trees roar and a massive, unseen force rolls across the countryside.
Behind the uncanny weather is Preston, a brilliant yet twisted scientist who has turned nature’s raw power into a weapon against a nation’s own defenses. As the strange calm gives way to violent, wind‑driven chaos, Hines and the locals find themselves drawn into a desperate race to understand and stop a force that threatens to consume everything in its path. The story balances suspense with a touch of early‑20th‑century imagination, keeping listeners on edge as the mystery of the storm deepens.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (110K characters)
Release date
2026-07-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1896–1975
A hugely prolific early science fiction writer, he helped shape ideas that later became genre staples, from alternate histories to stories about first contact and technological problem-solving. Writing under the pen name Murray Leinster, he produced an enormous body of fiction across magazines, novels, radio, and television.
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