Philip Wik

Red Mercury Rising Philip Wik

The Second American Civil War has broken out. The United States is no more. Dakota is in a death struggle with Pacifica and Dakota is losing. Stella Johnson is on a race to find the red mercury bomb to deliver final victory. But her psychotic brother Billy is never far away. Stella must get the deadly substance before Pacifica launches its final battle before her treacherous brother kills her.

Red Mercury Rising is based on the Somerton Man case where an unidentified man was found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948. He had a scrap of paper in his pocket with the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished". Red mercury refers to the hoax compound used to build nuclear bombs.