Robert J. Muller

The Bull of Mentju (The Menmenet Series, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ancient gods and modern armies clash in a riveting alternative-history thriller.

Cheryl MacIntyre loves her work on the Menmenet homicide squad. Then she's fired-for being American. When she plunges into Ta'an-Imenty politics to get her job back, she finds only an endless well of corruption.

Shesmu za-Akhen, her lover, can't help her because he gets a frantic call from the mountains of Washeshu, the small country to the east-his foster father has vanished. The quest to find him takes Shesmu deep into a world of indigenous spirituality that compels him to confront his personal demons.

Tahefnu, a young Miwuk woman, lives in an idyllic mountain valley south of Washeshu but questions her future. She undertakes to guide Shesmu in his search for his Coyote-spirit father but loses her own Hummingbird spirit when she confronts the Remetjy gods. When a Spetsnaz team from Russkaya Amerika captures the pair, Shesmu must abandon his quest to save Tahefnu's life and his own.

Furious at Shesmu for deserting her in her time of trial, MacIntyre goes it alone at the Temple of Mentju while Shesmu and Tahefnu hike through the valley of the dead. As MacIntyre rises through the ranks of Mentju, she uncovers a shadowy plot at the highest levels of the state. NATO countries to the east plan to invade the republic with the help of the plotters. Discovered, she flees for her life and joins the Remetjy Republican Guard in the mountains to fight for her adopted country.

MacIntyre, Shesmu, and Tahefnu join forces. But with a powerful army poised to invade and the gods against them, their future looks bleak-and short-unless they can get the gods on their side.

Set in a North America divided between the North American Treaty Organization of the United States, Numunuu, and the Plains Federation and the Ta'an-Imenty Republic colonized by the Egyptians, the third novel in the Menmenet trilogy of alternate history thrillers confronts MacIntyre and Shesmu with political conspiracy, war, genocide, and their own demons in a world dominated as much by the gods as by men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Poesys Associates
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781939386120
• Artikelnr.: 66292200

Autorenporträt

I stumbled into writing through technical documentation. I had just discovered the work of Robert B. Parker, the great detective novelist, and I wondered: could I write a detective story that helped somebody learn how to use regular expressions? It turned out I could, and that article was very popular. Years later, I had the opportunity to ghostwrite a technology book that conveyed database management system technology through a story about a nineteenth century farm ledger, which was a best seller. Why not inject technology into fiction?

Over the years, I developed many interests: science, technology, mathematics, ancient and modern history, archaeology, cooking, psychology, and classical literature. So many great writers, so many excellent books! I use the encyclopedia of knowledge I acquired over those many years to inform my fiction, written in the mystery, historical, and science fiction genres. I create alternate histories that upend the assumptions we make about our own history. I use language (ancient Egyptian and its hieroglyphs, slave dialect, and so on) to take people out of their own world and into somebody else's' world. I use historical characters to explore both their moral character and their actual role in history, writing about themes like civil rights, political compromise, public and moral duty, and slavery. I use science and technology to inject reality into mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction, both to inform the reader on the subject and to show how the science and technology affects the world in which we live, or in which we could live.

I discovered Jane Austen in graduate school and learned that a fine brush is often better than a huge canvas at conveying the relationships between people and the world in which they live. How the world works, how people construct it, how people live and die in it, and why they live the kinds of lives they do.

I live and work in San Francisco with my wife and illustrator, Mary L. Swanson.

You can connect with me through my Author Page at http://www.poesys.com.