Jack Chaucer

Queens are Wild (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the distant past, shatranj was the ancestor of chess. In 2036, "shatranj" is the password for a time-warp chess match that jumps 17-year-old Margeaux Quigley -- the chosen pawn among eight classmates kidnapped from high school detention in 1984 -- 52 years to 2036. Margeaux, who only ages 52 minutes during the leap, is asked to help checkmate Robert Ballentine, the self-proclaimed king of America. A corporate pirate who goes by the nickname "Balls," Ballentine is holding America's first female president hostage aboard a ship after a successful coup of the federal government on New Year's Day, 2036. An Australian-born, University of Texas-educated oil, shipping and media tycoon, Ballentine pulls off the hostile takeover with military and technological support from China, North Korea and dozens of U.S. turncoats. He also threatens to kill the president if the U.S. military attempts any major counterattacks during the transition phase. But when Ballentine holds a contest to find a virgin queen from his conquered land, a U.S. special defense unit at Area 52 in west Nevada -- a top secret and much smaller base than today's Area 51 in east Nevada -- sees an opportunity to strike and comes up with a plan. Margeaux only accepts the dangerous mission to seduce and trap the king when the teenage clone learns the president is ... 69-year-old Margeaux Quigley.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jack Chaucer
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476499802
• Artikelnr.: 48716441

Autorenporträt

Jack is the author of the Nikki Janicek series, a genre-bending, unpredictable 4-book ride from Lakes of the Clouds Hut in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ("Streaks of Blue," 2013) all the way to deep space ("Mars Colony Agatha: Nikki Red," out Nov. 1, 2019), with many interesting stops along the way ("Nikki Blue: Source of Trouble," 2015, and "Nikki White: Polar Extremes," 2017). This series features YA, NA, science fiction, adventure, religion and, yes, romance. Chaucer also has penned the mythological tale "Revenge to the Tennth Power" (2018), the children's book "The Password Is Wishpers" (2017), the political sci-fi thriller "Queens are Wild" (2012) and the rock 'n roll novella "Freeway and the Vin Numbers" (2010), as well as the short story, "heroinE" (2016). He lives in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA, with his wife and twin 8-year-olds. When he's not writing fiction, he's probably walking new chocolate lab puppy Hazelnut or editing newspaper stories for the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut.