A fast paced urban fantasy speculative fiction thriller.
After stealing the Orb from the Librairians, she heads north for her meetung with the Cardinal, who has promised to pay fifty-thousand pounds to get his hands on the Orb.
But the Librairians want the Orb back.
The Paladin and Mamluk want to taste its secret powers.
They will all do whatever it takes to obtain the Orb. This is going to be one very interesting road trip.
Excerpt
....I thought I lost them when, BANG, BANG... they shot out my rear window.
I almost crashed the car; the noise, the shock of the glass breaking. A thousand cuboid crystals flew about my head, bouncing off the windscreen and making an annoying little sprinkling sound as they hit the leather seats.
The glass particles stung the naked flesh of my arms, they hit the side of my face and peppered my scalp. Pinprick cuts, tiny specks of bright red blood appeared like evil Goosebumps over every inch of my exposed skin.
I got away that time by diving past the truck and cutting over three lanes. I only just made the exit, the back-end fishtailing as I fought the wheel, hitting the ramp at seventy miles an hour.
I am uncertain how I made the turn without losing it. I will no doubt brag about my skill as a driver sometime in the future, perhaps when I tell the story over a cold beer in some shithole bar in the middle of nowhere. But the truth is, I was milliseconds away from death, only lady luck got me out of that one.
They were not so lucky.
Glancing in the rear-view mirror as I zipped in front of the Semi-trailer, I saw the minivan I cut up when I swung across those three lanes, it T-boned their car.
I could not help grinning from ear to ear with satisfaction, even as I fought to save my own vehicle from leaving the road on the off ramp....
That certainly is a "wild ride" in the excerpt. I've been known to catch an exit like that without being chased. ;-) Although I don't believe that modern safety glass causes those kinds of cuts you described. And, I believe you meant that you "cut off," the minivan, not "cut up."
Admiral Robert Sheppard and his starship, the Phoenix, are back for their latest interplanetary adventure. Mysteries, new alien civilizations, and danger await the intrepid Star Knight and his loyal allies.
When I wrote ths book in 2000, I was concerned about children having access to the Internet and to chat rooms where "you can be anyone you want." Here we are many years later and the situation with children talking freely to stangers on the Internet
