Publisher's Synopsis
NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE WEATHER KILLS!Hard drinking, super-partying, Dan the Weatherman witnesses a woman flatten like a Halloween costume. Puddles of rain seem to run away from the scene of the crime. In a nervous-breakdown moment, Dan yells out on national TV, "The planet is fighting global warming by murdering people with deadly rain!" The network fires Dan, and he drowns his troubles in booze. Dan staggers from a local bar and lightning strikes him. The copper plate in his head acts as a weather vane. He is a human lightning rod.The U.S. government's cheap solution to global warming is free medical marijuana for everyone. The government didn't bargain on college dropout, Dan the Weatherman, who suspects a coverup. Dan teams up with other science misfits to investigate a rain that seems to be a serial killer, choosing its murder victims at random. Dan's former college roommate, Doc Meteor, is a meteorologist, who is in hiding from the government because he wants to fix the planet.The Coroner of New York City is mad at the F.B.I. for hijacking his job to perform autopsies on anyone dying mysteriously in New York City. Coroner just happens to be married to Dan's ex-wife Karen, who is part of the F.B.I. Forensics Team rolling up the flat bodies and hiding the corpses.Dan's crazy sister Spacey, and her female crew of engineers are building a fleet of space pods to leave the planet. Lazy Dan never thought of himself as the stuff heroes are made of. He mostly wants his dog back from Karen.And then there are all of those frogs that seem to be following Dan.Killer Rain is the first book in a new Climate Fiction series, Weatherman.
