Shane Alan Noble

Trencher's Bunker Shane Alan Noble

Our beloved global elite secure their survival well before the common people know a thing.

New money Marcus Trencher, a brilliant but reclusive tech industrialist, is brought in to design massive superbunkers for this privileged class. In exchange for his talents, he only asks to oversee construction of one such bunker. It becomes nothing short of a subterranean palace. His life underground was to be a life of comfort.

He earned it, after all - just like his billions. Accomplished men like him were entitled to survival.

Near the doomsday deadline, he sends his closest friend Henry Plyman to recruit desirables to join them underground. Plyman believes he is filling vital roles to service a population of hundreds, if not thousands. That isn't exactly the case.

Unlike Plyman, Timothy Spencer refuses any part of Trencher's plan, ultimately sacrificing their friendship, and his place in Trencher's bunker.

Spencer does secure a bunker bid, but elsewhere, and nowhere near as luxurious. He mines coal and subsists on a soy-based protein drink. His wife is depressed and his children grow ill. He cannot shake the sense that Trencher has a presence in his miserable new home, and he begins to investigate.

It becomes a tale of two bunkers - one for the haves, and one for the have-nots.

Conspiracy runs deep. Truth tends to surface.