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That\u2019s the key to St. Petersburg resident Dominic Trimboli\u2019s The Destroyer of Worlds, the first of three novels set at pivotal moments in 20th century American history. A central character is James Forrestal, who was the country\u2019s first Secretary of Defense (under Harry S. Truman).<\/p>\n
According to popular legend, Forrestal formed, by order of the president, a top-secret group of scientists and military strategists called the Majestic 12. Their job was to investigate \u201cflying saucers\u201d and possible alien arrivals on Earth in the mid-to-late \u201840s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote a book that I would love to read,\u201d explained Trimboli, a native of Australia who emigrated to the States in 2005. \u201cI wrote it for me! And if someone likes it, that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n
His inspiration was Jules Verne\u2019s Journey to the Center of the Earth. \u201cI loved that story. I loved that we don\u2019t know a lot about our own planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
In The Destroyer of Worlds, Forrestal is contacted by a highly advanced humanoid civilization that has been living, for millennia, deep under the surface of the planet in a beautiful \u201cSacred Realm\u201d called Agartha.<\/p>\n
The Agarthans are intelligent, peace-loving and not at all interested in what humans do on the surface.<\/p>\n
Until the United States drops the atomic bomb on Japan, that is. The Council of Elders votes to intervene to warn the topsiders that they\u2019re risking the destruction of all earthbound civilizations.<\/p>\n
Truman, scientist Werner Von Braun and Admiral Richard Byrd are among the complicit historical figures populating the novel. Also in play: The 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico, in which \u2013 conspiracy theorists believe \u2013 an alien craft crash-landed on a remote ranch.<\/p>\n
Still, insists Trimboli, \u201cI made this story up. I wanted to write it in a way that when you read it, you would think \u2018Could this actually have happened?\u2019 That\u2019s why I mixed the historical elements in the book. I didn\u2019t want to have an alternate history \u2013 I wanted to make the audience interested and bought-in to the story.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the picture keeps getting bigger. As the US government is secretly dealing with the Agarthans, and not too successfully, Forrestal learns that Agartha is a central player in a cosmos-wide federation of civilizations. Visitors often travel across the universe to confer in the Sacred Realm, which is accessible through a secret entrance at the South Pole.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn astronomy,\u201d Trimboli says. \u201cwe have this view that we\u2019re so small in the universe. But I wanted to make us important as well. There\u2019s that saying: You\u2019re a drop in the ocean, but also you\u2019re the ocean in one drop.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to make Earth important. And I wanted to make it this destination for other civilizations to come and visit, to learn something. To learn how not to destroy themselves in the way that we\u2019re facing that now, with artificial intelligence. Because it is powerful enough to destroy us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Former IT executive Dominic Trimboli has lived in St. Petersburg since 2023. Photo provided.<\/p>\n
Trimboli was an information technology executive for decades, mostly in the Seattle area. \u201cI spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft, and nearly eight years at Amazon Web Services,\u201d he relates. \u201cFantastic companies to work for, but my role became redundant in 2023. So I started contracting.\u201d<\/p>\n
He formed Boston Private Equity Partners, to continue his contracts with Google and Amazon. That same year, Trimboli and his wife Lucy left Brevard County (they owned a spacious home on Melbourne Beach) for Florida\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem with Melbourne Beach is that it\u2019s isolated,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe were the only idiots that lived there year-round. Most of the people that bought houses there, they\u2019ve got houses somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple, who have two grown sons, longed for more of an urban lifestyle; after rejecting Tampa as a bit too urban, they discovered St. Petersburg and purchased a home in the Old Northeast section.<\/p>\n
Another major change was in the wind. \u201cOnce all my contracts finished, I was talking to a neighbor, and I said \u2018I just want to have a job where I can help people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Four months ago, he began working at Regions Bank in downtown St. Petersburg. His title is Senior Small Business Banker. \u201cI get to talk to businesses in St. Pete now,\u201d Trimboli says. \u201cI love it. I\u2019d never done banking before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m probably going to work for the next 10 years, but I could be retired, if I wanted to. I wasn\u2019t going to sit at home and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Destroyer of Worlds was followed by Sky Without Stars, which was itself succeeded by The Fire From Heaven. Trimboli calls the series The Akkadian Meditations.<\/p>\n
Sitting home and doing nothing? Hardly. Coming soon is the fourth volume, The Templar Conspiracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s the thing: Once you start, you cannot stop,\u201d he enthuses. \u201cI\u2019m serious. Writing becomes an obsession. It consumes you. In a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Destroyer of Worlds<\/a><\/p>\n