{"product_id":"intrepid-the-two-storms-steve-stone-9781461073277","title":"Intrepid - The Two Storms","description":"\u003cp\u003eTime travel murder mystery from Steve Stone. Check out the storyline, \u0026amp; great reviews;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 July 2017. Post-Obama, Colonel Lance Tucker is Commander of the next generation X-33 space shuttle Intrepid. The American \u0026amp; Russian Presidents convene for an historic dual launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs devastating Hurricane Ernie approaches, notorious international assassin 'The Chinaman' guns down both leaders, reigniting the New Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Jack Nelson orders Intrepid to travel back in time to change history - with hindsight, stopping the assassin should prove simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut who is The Chinaman? How does he know Lance's every movement? Senator Darrell McKay is helpful, but does his sinister Head of Security Vivian Kort have a hidden agenda?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what's out of place in TV footage of the double shooting, The Chinaman's car, \u0026amp; his unsuccessful assassination attempt on McKay?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Chinaman's game of cat \u0026amp; mouse ultimately proves as dangerous as General Nelson's plan to destroy the super-storm with a secret neutron bomb..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime travel murder mystery. 2\/3rds of action takes place on Earth. Will appeal to mystery, sci-fi \u0026amp; action adventure fans. 83,118 words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Absolutely top-notch writing! Stone is in a class by himself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster writer Stone's follow-up to his brilliant first scifi\/thriller Intrepid.. is like reuniting with old friends, Col. Lance Tucker \u0026amp; Gen. Jack Nelson are back!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining 2 genres, thriller \u0026amp; scifi perfectly is the sign of a superb writer. Excitement, thrills \u0026amp; extremely well drawn characters are even more refined in this 2nd book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was taken from the very 1st page, \u0026amp; the action, twists \u0026amp; intrigue did not let up until the last word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn creating 'The Chinaman', a ruthless yet far from stereotypical assassin, Stone has shown the ability to fine tune villains as well as heroes.. a testament to writing acumen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA villain the reader will not soon forget!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plot includes time travel with the goal of preventing an assassination.. sub-plots \u0026amp; twists \u0026amp; turns are so deftly handled.. the parts of this unique book come together to form a very satisfying whole..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe 2nd book in a series, the negative is that I will now have to wait to read the 3rd instalment! This series is THAT GOOD!'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRICK FRIEDMAN, THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The stages for The Two Storms are set.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne is a political one when the Russian and American Presidents are shot, the other is a devastating hurricane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with reading any sequel I always set the bar higher, and for this one I wasn't disappointed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters all fall into place \u0026amp; are easy to keep up with. Confronting a hurricane with a neutron bomb from a B-2 Spirit gets serious cool points as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing against mother nature comes with an awesome sense of class this round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut first the Intrepid crew will have to survive another attempt at time travel to get behind the storms with enough time in their hands to prevent them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter that, saving the world from a Cold War comes down to taking on street gangs to get to bottom of who The Chinaman is, \u0026amp; just as importantly, who he is working for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was left right up to the very end trying to figure out the mysteries of identities here. I will read on to Intrepid - Revelations.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eS.J. Wist, Fantasy Cookie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Steve Stone works at the tough but exciting interface between the thriller \u0026amp; the hardest of hard science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this second part of his four-book series, we find spaceflight, gangland violence, high politics \u0026amp; a clutch of plot twists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on deep research \u0026amp; imagination, the series has delivered plenty already \u0026amp; the final two volumes promise much more.' Martin Ince, Science Journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries includes;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntrepid (2010). Intrepid - Revelations (2012). Intrepid - Regression (2013). 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