FEATURED AUTHOR - Alice K. Boatwright is the author of the Ellie Kent mysteries, which debuted with Under an English Heaven, winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for Best Mystery. The series continues with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After. Alice has also published other fiction, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era; Sea, Sky, Islands, a chapbook of stories set in Washington’s San Juan Islands; and Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving, a holiday parable…
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Sequel to 'Robur the Conqueror'.
R: * * * * *
Plot bullets
There are strange sounds and lights emitting from the 'Great Eyrie', mountain in N.C. in the US.
A government official is sent to investigate what might become a hazard to the inhabitants of the area, but gets nothing for his troubles, but a warning and death threat.
At the same time in many parts of the country:
o A strange aircraft is spotted.
o An automobile race is interrupted by an auto going in access of 130 mph.
o There are sitings of a boat with incredible speed, loose on the water-ways of America.
o Then comes the rumors of a submarine in a western lake.
Could all of these incredible inventions be the work of one evil genius?
Is it even possible that all of these mechanical wonders are one in the same vehicle?
This inventor has defied the goverment and the government agent must find the answer. He must know if this is a new master criminal on the scene, or has the world seen this nemesis before.
Will this dangerous man indeed become, 'The Master of the World'?