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The Eleventh Grieve is a novel of a climate-change denier who's set straight romantically and professionally by two strong women, three if you count his mother. And one of them may not be entirely of this world! Jake Krimmer is a brash, thirtysomething financial speculator who make a killing off of “weird weather” - the disastrous storms and floods and heat waves that force power companies to scramble to supply electricity to their customers. But he’s about to lose his secret weapon, his unerring meteorologist and - to his regret - x-girlfriend, Samantha Richards.
She’s deeply troubled about getting rich off the misery caused by what she knows is climate change. Enter Rita Ten Grieve, a mysterious, otherworldly woman who commands a futuristic technology called the Nimbus. She takes Jake back and forth in time to reveal the truth about the impending crisis to the planet. But will it be enough to convince him to change his ways and win back Samantha?
About the author
Garth Hallberg has had a varied career as a naval officer, an advertising and marketing executive, a non-fiction author (All Consumers Are Not Created Equal, John Wiley & Sons, 1995), a globe-trotting consultant and lecturer, and a college professor (St. John’s Univ., New York).
He lives with his family in a small hamlet forty miles from New York, where they enjoy both the stimulation of the big city and the pleasures of the surrounding countryside. His approach to fiction is simple—“Write what you don’t know you know”— because writing a novel is not only a willful act of imagination but also a journey of discovery.
A Climate-Change Novel
The Eleventh Grieve
Garth Hallberg
