Two Degrees Published
TWO DEGREES PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 30
Climate Change Guts Big Oil Lobbyist
New York, NY, November 30, 2023. Award-winning author William Michael Ried, in conjunction with CKBooks Publishing, today published his fourth novel, Two Degrees.
In a world where the devastating effects of climate change can seem inconsequential to the lives of the wealthy, Two Degrees tells the story of Daniel Lazaro, a powerful Washington lawyer lobbying for the fossil fuel industry. With a dream life on the Guadalupe River, a loving wife and a young daughter, Daniel is blind to the repercussions of his work. But when a flash flood in the Texas Hill Country sweeps away his home and his family, Daniel is left shattered and haunted by even the sight of water. Daniel descends into an abyss of guilt and his debilitating phobia. But a charismatic activist appears and tries to convince Daniel to use his political access to challenge the industry he once championed. Daniel is torn between his personal grief and his urgent need to make amends. Will he redeem himself or stand aside as the world plunges toward chaos? In a gripping tale of redemption and the fight for a dying planet, Two Degrees puts Dan Lazaro at the intersection of power politics and climate change, where a collision is in escapable.
Ried’s first novel Five Ferries was a finalist in the 2019 American Fiction Awards for Best New Fiction. In 2021 his second novel Backstory won the New York City Big Book Award for Mystery, and a Silver Medal from the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Adult Fiction, was a semi-finalist for the Kindle Book Award for Literary Fiction, and was named a 2022 Hoffer Award Category Finalist. His third novel Pandion was named a 2022 Distinguished Favorite Mystery by the NYC Big Book Awards, and a Red Ribbon Winner in the 2022 Wishing Shelf Awards, made the 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List, was a semifinalist in the 2023 Kindle Book Awards for Mystery/Thriller, and won Honorable Mention for Mystery/Crime in the 2023 Eric Hoffer Awards.
The paperback of Two Degrees (ISBN 9781949085884) can be purchased online or ordered worldwide through bookstores. The ebook (ISBN 9781949085891) will be available through all major sources.