Eltrans 25 (ePub)

Set in Canberra, Australias Federal Capital in 2001, the protagonists are Jack Smith, who set out to invent a machine which could be used for good, in all sorts of emergencies (such as Drought prevention, by electronically transferring water from one part of the world to the drought area, Flood mitigation by getting rid of flooding water, food transport from bunkers where excess food is stored to famine areas, extracting people from mud slides, earthquakes, etc. transferring armies and equipment anywhere in the world instantaneously, and in medicine in placing little nano cameras into human bodies without surgical intervention, looking at cancer cells, and then directing Radio waves directly onto the affected areas, etc.)
When he had it perfected, he realised that it could also be used by unscrupulous people, crime syndicates, for the transfer of all gold from Fort Knox and from the Reserve Bank in Wall Street to anywhere, the transfer of all Diamonds in Hatton Garden etc and the transfer of all currency in the various Mints of the world to somewhere else. It could also be used by those same criminals, or by corrupt Governments, to maybe produce droughts in all the worlds food belts, except their own, so that they could charge extortionate prices for food supplies to the rest of the world.
The shock of this realisation was too much to bear for Jacks wife, Belinda, and she suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of that realisation.
Jack sets up a meeting between John Howard, Australias Prime Minister, John Anderson, Deputy Prime Minister, Bruce Richardson Director General of ASIO, and Grigorian Borowski, Canberras top scientist. After giving a small demo of his machines capability in blacking out TV at a time and for a duration specified by Grigorian, and in this meeting Jack transfers Bill Clinton from the Oval Office in the White House, to an underground bunker under Canberras new Parliament House, and likewise transfers John Howard from this same bunker to the Oval Office in the White House..
After that, Sirius becomes aware of the machine and blackmails Grigorian to reveal the whereabouts of the machine. Jack is aware of the fact that Grigorian is demanding that he bring his machine in before the bunkers that Jack specified to protectively house his machine are finished, and Jack wrongly believes that Grigorian I somehow wanting to get his hands on the machine for his own purposes.
Sirius cannot attack Jack directly the same way that he attacked Grigorian, because Jack has no known living relatives. Both Sirius and Grigorian independently want to provide someone for Jack to fall in love with, so that they can then blackmail him. Enter Therese.
Jack has been advised that he has Cancer, and has only a few months to live. So he has to decide who to give the machine to, or whether to destroy it. He takes it to Canberras Archbishop, and in the seal of the Confessional, he leaves it with him, with instructions on what to do with it the event of his death from any cause whatsoever, or if he should go missing for more than 7 days.
ASIO and the CIA call on the Archbishop on the one day and question him about Jack Smith, but he cannot reveal anything about him. They tell him that Jack has invented a weapon of Mass Destruction.
The Archbishop is in a quandary. Must he continue to house this package, which now has him worried that it might be a bomb, since Jacks wife died earlier on, and the thought crosses the Archbishops mind, that maybe Jack somehow blames God for this, and his mind may have been twisted enough to try and blow up the Cathedral. He envisions a mushroom cloud above Canberra.
Eventually Sirius captures Therese, who was not a plant that he had arranged, and threatens her with death if she wont reveal Jacks hiding place. She genuinely does not know anything about it, and so he kills her. Then he captures Jack, and questions him. He shows him a video of how he has killed Therese, and this makes Jac