The Facility

by Clifford Beck

It is the year 2059 and Portland, Maine, like so much of the world, has become largely a war zone of crime and poverty. Resources are all but gone. And as the swan's song of civilization rapidly come to a close, the government develops a plan that officially does not exist. It is a plan designed to exploit the world’s last remaining resource – the beginnings of which lay hidden in an underground facility in the woods near Jay, Maine. Now, Edward Drake, a banking analyst in Portland, will...