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Wayne Carey

    Wayne Carey je autorem, který se ponořil do světa vědy a psaní s vášní, která začala již v dětství. Jeho rané čtenářské zážitky s klasickými autory science fiction a fantasy formovaly jeho smýšlení, což ho vedlo ke studiu biologie a vzdělávání. Careyho práce často zkoumá hranice vědy a představivosti, přičemž jeho styl je známý svým napínavým vyprávěním a promyšlenými nápady. Jeho psaní je hluboce ovlivněno jeho zkušenostmi vědeckého pracovníka a učitele, což mu dodává jedinečnou perspektivu.

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    Executive Gambit
    • Executive Gambit

      • 182 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      NIGHTMARE COUP•America’s greatest fear is realized when President Trent’s personal helicopter, Marine One, blows up with him aboard. At the same time, across the Atlantic, Air Force Two carrying Vice-President Duncan McNeil explodes while landing at Rome’s international airport. Within hours a Palestinian radical fringe group called Vengeance claims credit for the assassinations. A shaken Speaker of the House, Oliver Holstein, is immediately sworn in as the new President.•Every intelligence agency of the free world is tasked with finding Husam al Din, the mysterious mastermind behind Vengeance. Then Italian officials report that the Vice-President’s personal Secret Service agent miraculously survived the crash and is recuperating in a Roman hospital. What does he know? Can he provide intelligence that might uncover the inside agents responsible for the twin terror attacks? More importantly, is he still a target of Vengeance?•The stakes have never been higher as a cunning, ruthless foe prepares to unleash a nuclear holocaust on America’s allies in the final Executive Gambit.•

      Executive Gambit
    • Yokai

      • 174 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      GHOSTS FROM THE PASTSpace hauler, Captain Tony Michaels and his alien co-pilot/parter, Jiin of Tz-en, crash land on the planet Nihon; a colony world settled by the descendants of Earth’s Japanese people. Then their ship is confiscated and they are arrested for smuggling. When they attempt to resolve the false charges, both of them soon discover they are merely pawns in a deadly political civil war between two rival clans.And if that wasn’t enough to deal with, they discover the certain colonist have begun having visions of ancient aliens who may have been the first indigenous race to live on Nihon.Once again, writer Wayne Carey has delivered a colorful, old fashion science-fiction adventure that is filled with action and adventure set in strange and alien worlds. Sci-Fi fans will not be disappointed. This is the second in his series featuring Captain Michaels and Jiin begun in “El-Aris.” Award winning cartoonist Don Simpson provides the wonderful black and white interior illustrations and Canadian artist Ted Hammond the cover.

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