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Safe House, the latest in Andrew Vachss's series of Burke novels, begins when Burke's "brother," Hercules, is paid to scare off a neo-nazi stalker and accidentally kills the wrong guy. Burke finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of white supremacists, stalkers, and safe house networks. What ensues is an intense rush to cover Hercules' tracks and, at the same time, bring down a New York City white supremacy ring.
Safe House offers up Vachss's repertoire of repeat characters. The most fascinating are Burke's prison "family," the Prof, Max the silent, the Mole, Michelle, Clarence, Mama, and, of course, Burke himself, who is as hard-edged as ever. The family's willingness to help one another, even die for one another, is the emotional string that ties the books together. There are also two new female characters, Vyra, the affluent Jewish housewife and Crystal Beth, half Inuit, half Irish safe house madam. Though not as believable as their male counterparts, Vyra and Crystal Beth have powerful secrets of their own and add a soft, human element to the story.
Like other Vachss novels, Safe House embraces the dirty, grim life of the ex-con for hire. The most compelling aspect of Safe House is Vachss's no-holds-barred writing style. He spares nobody's feeling and minces no words in this rough, gritty and often painfully raw crime story. --Mara Friedman
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The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.
Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers is dead. To save his partner, Burke has to penetrate the network, and he makes a deal with the boss, Crystal Beth, a woman as obsessed as the stalkers. But Crystal Beth has a stalker of her own, an extortionist who threatens to bring down her entire network unless she surrenders one of the women she's hiding.
When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker he's protecting is a member of a neo-Nazi cell with plans to make Oklahoma City look like a pipe bomb, his survivalist instincts go on full alert ("When there's too many loose threads, somebody always weaves them into a noose"). And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.
With blistering power, Safe House reminds us why Kirkus has called Burke "one of the most fascinating male characters in crime fiction."
From the Hardcover edition.
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A beautiful outlaw hires Burke to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector who can shut down her operation for good.
Customer Reviews:
Dysfunctional Doc Savage has gotten old........2003-05-01
There's something mildly comforting about a new
Burke novel, because you should know what you're buying by now.
A twist on the hardboiled detective, an antihero with a heart
of pyrite, a hard exterior protecting a tough interior protecting
a broken inner child.
I've been in on the Burke novels since the first one, Flood,
was dropped in my lap. I kinda liked the half-assed detective
character, and I was willing to go along with Vachss' evolution
of the character and his environment, but this novel represents
a definitive "mining of the old".
It's just short of becoming a parody of itself, and I don't
like it. Vachss has stripped down his usual dialogue and
character interactions down to the bone; it's really as if he's
now writing these novels from a template, where he plugs in
the scenario and picks from the usual menu of plot devices.
Perhaps I'm simply tired of Burke's world. The Prof's rhyming
is truly awful now, and I no longer find it a simple thing to
suspend disbelief during most of the book. I think the only
character preserved from my broad brush happens to be Max,
and I suspect it's partly because he doesn't speak, but mostly,
because Vachss now treats him as a deus ex machina and as such,
he's mostly an object rather than a person.
I know this is not good news for loyal readers. However,
I have to write 'em like I see 'em, and this world has run its
course. Perhaps Vachss will take some time off, re-examine
where Burke is and where should be, and come up with something
fresh. He needs it.
A Bit Confusing.......2003-02-14
This is another Burke story. Burke is a formidable man who has surrounded himself with a vast network of professionals. But Burke is a criminal and a highly organised one at that.
This story starts off with a favour for a fellow ex-con. The ex-con has accidentally killed an abusive husband whom he was supposed to be warning away from his battered wife. The story then quickly progresses to the safe house of the book's title and the battered women who are sheltered there. At first it appears that the rest of the book would be about Burke and his partners providing protection for these women, but before you know it, the focus shifts on to a neo-Nazi movement. With the constant changes of focus, I found the plot a little hard to follow as I tried to remember the motivation behind what was taking place.
This is hardboiled all the way as Burke displays a willingness to do just about anything as long as it means getting the job done. A little more attention to explaining what was going on and a little less to attitude would have gone a long way.
Not that bad!.......2000-10-09
The street word on this Burke novel was that it, like FALSE ALLEGATIONS and CHOICE OF EVIL, was spoiled by an excess of didacticism and a paucity of plot and action. When I finally located and read a copy, which was not easy, by the way, I found the word to be exaggerated.
There is indeed a plot, which blends white-supremacist movements with the societal problems of stalking and spousal abuse. To help out old friend Herk and new friend Crystal Beth, Burke and his "family" find themselves needing to murder a couple of bad guys in cold blood and put all their lives on the line to derail a plan to level a Federal building in NYC with half a dozen truckloads of explosives.
Burke finds himself working with an enigmatic undercover figure who calls himself Pryce, and who is multiply connected to the local and state police, and Feds, in extraordinary ways. There is a hint that Pryce may enter Burke's life again, once he gets a new face; let's hope he does.
In summary, this is another chilling Vachss tour of the underbelly of our society. If you have a strong stomach, it's a tour you won't regret taking.
You're Safe with Burke.......2000-09-26
"Safe House" sets the tarnished hero Burke in pursuit of a stalker with a neo-Nazi bent. Anyone who has read previous Burke novels knows that this type of work is right up his alley. Along the way he hooks up with another exotic femme fatale in Crystal Beth, one of Burke's more interesting leading ladies. Andrew Vachss's writing reads like broken glass and barbed wire with its sharp cutting edges. He also knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat. His stories are hardboiled rather than fast paced and they have a strong moral center that would not be obvious to the average square. Vachss is simply one of the best "detective" fiction writers working today.
It's not as dark as his previous books!.......1999-07-15
Burke allows his emotions to show in his relationships with his loyal "family." He and his friends will go the distance to protect others from the predators that stalk them. What I like a lot about his books, is the types of characters he uses. They're not necessarily physically attractive,but their appeal is from within themselves and their loyalty to one another.
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26 Ready-to-Go Reproducible Patterns That Put a New Spin on Learning the Alphabet
An innovative and interactive way for children to learn the alphabet. With just a turn of these self-correcting wheels children will begin to identify letters as they match simple words to their corresponding illustrations. The wheels are easy to make and fun to use. Just reproduce, cut, and assemble-it's easy as ABC!
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Unlock the door to reading success with these adorable, easy-to-make learning wheels that teach the top 32 word families!
Customer Reviews:
Fun and Easy Learning Activity.......2007-09-27
I teach special needs kids, and even the older ones (up to age 14) thought these little 'word-wheels' were a blast! Hiding the pictures with a 'lift-the-flap' means my students are more likely to actually attempt to read the word before looking at the picture to check their reading. Also, they have fun coloring, and the cutting is a good fine-motor activity. I do frequently have to cut out the 'windows' myself to avoid crying fits from frustrated students, and I usually draw a box around the word-family 'part' (ie. 'at' for the 'cat' wheel) so the kids remember to not color over the letters. If I know students will be using the wheels for a long time, I will even laminate the wheels after everything is cut out, leaving a plastic 'window' that is sturdier. I have even reduced several 'wheels' on the copier and turned them into file-folder games. One folder is for long vowels, one is for short vowels. I would love to find more interactive projects like this!
Great help for emerging readers.......2007-08-31
I bought this to help my daughter (entering 2nd grade). She is an emerging reader, and the wheels have been quite helpful for recognizing words and patterns more quickly. A helpful tool.
Wonderful for my hands-on 5 year old .......2007-08-10
This has been a great product for my 5 year old, who will be entering Kindergarten in the next few weeks. She is an active, hands-on learner, who has trouble focusing on activities that aren't physical. First, she colors the pictures, then after I put on the contact paper, she practices her cutting skills, then she helps put in the brass tab and then she has a new toy! She just loves the idea that she is learning to read words. She has been frustrated trying to sound out words in the level 1 books and seeing her friends have more success with that process. We do one a day and she can't wait to show off her new phonogram to rest of the family in the evening.
Very cute and educational too!.......2003-09-21
These wheels are easy to make and my 4 1/2 year old daughter loves them.
They are a fun way to improve her reading skills. I highly recommend this book.
Rhyming Wheel Review.......2000-06-01
This is a very useful book for students, parents, and educators. Students will be able to have hands on activities while learning phonics and rhyming words.
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Kabbalah is one of those fads that is presented by New Age experts as the answer to the need for a self-guided spirituality that transcends organized religion. Buddhism is another fad, with meditation and yoga sessions becoming the in-thing to do. Underneath the light and fluffy exterior of these fads lies underlying truth that is both obvious and hidden due to the way that religion has been defined and confined to organizations and traditions.
Kabbalah began as a study of word usage, of following terms and concepts through the ancient texts of preserved scriptures. While not evident in English translations of the Bible, the words that make up the sefirot of the Kabbalah are present in the original Hebrew version of the Bible. Letting these words be defined by their usage in the Hebrew scriptures leaves us with an exacting scholarly definition of each.
While Kabbalah sefirot are traditionally presented as a "tree", for the purpose of blending Jewish thought with Buddhist thought, the sefirot are presented as a "wheel". What is amazing in this presentation is that the sefirot then line up perfectly with Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path as the circumference and Buddhism's Three Jewels as the hub of the Kabbalah Wheel. The two traditions not only mesh, they shine lights of meaning on each other's truths. The culmination of the Jewish concept of 'aYiN and the Buddhist concept of Nirvana leave us with traditions that are not as different as they may appear on the surface. What we are left with is a definite path of self-directed spiritual development, a proactive means to awakening, to understanding spiritual terms on our own terms and what it means to resurrect ourselves into enlightenment.
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- A Tart New York Love Story
- Another Good Powell Book
- Witty, contemporary and FABULOUS!
- Witty send-up of literary scene
- Interesting, but not engaging
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Turn, Magic Wheel
Dawn Powell
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The Golden Spur
ASIN: 1883642728
Release Date: 1999-01-01 |
Book Description
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell’s New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: “On the glittering black pavement legs hurried by with umbrella tops, taxis skidded along the curb, their wheels swishing through the puddles, raindrops bounced like dice in the gutter.” Powell’s famous wit was never sharper than here, but Turn, Magic Wheel is also one of the most poignant and heart-wrenching of her novels.
Customer Reviews:
A Tart New York Love Story.......2002-12-02
In this novel, written in 1936, Dawn Powell began a series of books satirizing literary life in New York City. Powells' biographer, Tim Page, has written of this book that "if there is another novel that manages simultaneously to be so funny and so sad, so riotous and so realistic, so acute and yet so accepting in the portrayal of flawed humankind, I have not yet found it." This is high praise for an obscure novel, but it is deserved.
The protagonist of the book is Dennis Orphen, a young man who, modelled on Dawn Powell herself, has left midwest Ohio to come to New York City in search of a literary career and of excitement.
Orphen begins as a "proletarian" leftist type of writer but soon achieves some popular acclaim. He then publishes a novel, "The Hunter's Wife" which satrizes sharply a famous American writer who has long lived abroad, Andrew Callingham (a Hemingway-like figure.) Orphen has learned about the details of Calligham's life through his three-year affair with Effie, Callingham's first wife whom Callingham had left 18 years earlier. (Effie is much older than Orphen.) Effie is despondent over the revelations in Orphen's book. Orphen also has affairs with other women, particularly a young married woman named Corrine, who loves Orphen but also loves her good if boring home with her husband.
The book is full of pictures of New York City streets, bars, homes and characters. It satirizes the literary establishment and literary tastes of the day unmercifully. The plot in the story turns on Orphen's attempt to reconcile what he has done as a writer -- written a fine novel -- with the betrayal of Effie. He needs to sort out his feeling for her and for Corrine.
Effie too needs to sort out her feelings towards Orphen and towards Callingham, her long-gone husband. She has the opportunity to do so when Callingham returns briefly to New York City. The title of the book, "Turn, Magic Wheel", is taken from an epigraph of Theocritus: "Turn, magic wheel, Bring homeward him I love" and is suggestive of the plot.
Some readers see this book is sharp, unremitting satire. I find it much more. It tells an unconventional love story lived by people with unconventional sexual mores. Dawn Powell brings real sympathy and understanding to the characters and their situation. The book is a beautiful portrait of New York City of the mid-1930's. It captures the allure of leaving one's youth in the midwest and seeking life in the excitement of Manhattan. Powell is a writer who deserves the acclaim she has recently received.
Another Good Powell Book.......2000-02-13
Turn, Magic Wheel provides the expected Powell wit and Powell plot and every sentence is read-out-loud perfect. This time, she places her characters in a tangled web surrounding the publication of Dennis Orphan's novel. His novel is based on the life of his only real friend who is an ex-wife of a Hemingway-type writer. Turn, Magic Wheel does not, however, match Powell's later works such as The Golden Spur or The Wicked Pavilions. Powell does not yet seem to have completely found her narrative voice and this leads to some hurky-jerk story telling. At times it seems as though she hasn't decided whether she wants to be a witty Henry James or, well, Dawn Powell.
Witty, contemporary and FABULOUS!.......1999-10-05
I feel as if I know every single character in this raucous evocation of New York night-life as it was 60 years ago. Dawn Powell is a genius and this may be her greatest book.
Witty send-up of literary scene.......1999-09-16
Ms.Powell disects the world of writers and lays them out on a slab for all to see. Takes you through one writer's bestseller and its consequences on those around him. Reminiscent of Capote's "betrayals" to his society acquaintances. Entertaining and witty as any of Ms. Powell's novels always are.
Interesting, but not engaging.......1999-03-29
The writing is very good, but somehow this story of 1935 New York City never comes to life. The characters are interesting and their situations were new to me, but I never really cared about any of them. It just didn't grab me and I was sorry about that.
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- Radical politics, Asian spirituality, and hash smuggling
- Remembering the Hippie Trail
- Larger than life adventures
- Wild women in an untamed country
- A rollicking good read for those who 'missed the boat'
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The Bandit of Kabul: Episode Two of the Series "As The Prayer Wheel Turns"
Jerry Beisler
Manufacturer: Regent Press
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1587900947 |
Product Description
Filled with real life action in the great American tradition of adventurers / writers like Hemingway, Mark Twain and Jack London, "The Bandit of Kabul" is a tight, fast paced, emotionally driven narrative. This true story spans the decade before the Age of Technology and is filled with cutting edge global views of history during the last days of the legal Afghanistan-Kathmandu to Amsterdam hash smugglers and the rise of the smoke shops in Holland. Go off the beaten path with rebel, Hollywood outlaw artists. Humor, hedonism and high jinks in Asia are haunted by the spector of serial killer Charles Sobaraj. Romance, mystics, Burma, Bali, and a wild ride through the early days of reggae across the Caribbean. More Romance in the evolving lives of ex-pat close friends through death, divorce, and children. Poets, informants, and nominees for "heroes for that era's history." The genesis of the Emerald Triangle pot plantations . . . peaceniks, museum thieves and Royalty. The Dali Lama. Author Jerry Beisler enhances the incredible tale with a snapshot camera that reveals life before cellphones, laptops and instant banking. Plus, rare horses and one great dog.
Customer Reviews:
Radical politics, Asian spirituality, and hash smuggling.......2007-05-18
Jerry Beisler is in the midst of chronicling his eventful life, decade by decade, in a series of books called "As the Prayer Wheel Turns." The 1970s is covered in "The Bandit of Kabul" ($29.95 in paperback from Regent Press), studded with black and white photographs of the times and the people -- from Rebecca, whom he marries in 1971 in Goa, India, to Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, to "Dutch Bob," who "tried to recruit anyone of worth he met in the Kathmandu Valley to assist him in his Hash-to-Amsterdam deals." The author signed up.
An author's note sets the tone: "This book is set in some of the world's most remote and exotic locations, but you will not be reading poetic or minute descriptions of the sights, sounds or smells of those places. & There is no time for dwelling on these things during this era of endless war that produces murderous national leaders, idiotic economic policies and draconian, tyrannical laws. But the historical facts, the action and adventure, the spirit and spirituality of human beings are here; this story beings and ends in love."
It's also the story of Beisler's entrepreneurial spirit. Gravitating away from the "false-bottom suitcase parade" smuggling contraband into Amsterdam, he and Rebecca would return periodically to their ranch in Northern California where Jerry would sell museum-quality Tibetan carpets and tend his marijuana garden (now long gone, of course, replaced by "ecologically perfect nut trees").
He also helped produce music shows "for the local college crowd & about 8,000 party-hungry students." It sounds like the unnamed "state university" was Chico State University, described as somewhere between the Bay Area and Oregon, 157 miles from San Francisco, just outside the radius promoter Bill Graham insisted on when he booked his acts so as not to dilute the potential audience. For Beisler that meant "Fleetwood Mac, Santana and Taj Mahal, came through town on their coastal swings to or from San Francisco."
During a time of estrangement from Rebecca, Jerry had met a woman in San Francisco. Later, once again united with Rebecca, he received a letter from "that 'hot-house flower.'" Almost matter-of-factly she wrote: "I am going to have your baby in a few months & and someday, if the child asks about the father, I'll just say he was the Bandit of Kabul."
Copyright 2007 Chico Enterprise-Record. Used by permission.
Remembering the Hippie Trail.......2007-05-05
If "The Bandit of Kabul" writer/adventurer Jerry Beisler were to revisit Afghanistan and environs today, he would surely perform the appropriate bodily function.
A New York Times travel section piece (1/21/07) by Joshua Hammer provided a timely comparison between the Afghanistan of the early 70s, as described in Beisler's book, and the Afghanistan of 2007.
What was once called the "The Hippie Trail," before that, "The Silk Road," and before that "The House of Genghis Khan," is now undergoing, according to the Times article, "an accelerating nationalistic effort to bring tourists back by `promising them that they won't get killed.'"
Mr. Beisler, using his own inadversedly, unfettered-by-graying-conventions writing style, vividly recounts the kind of wild-eyed, courageous inquisitiveness so prevalent in that early time by travelers, not tourists.
The smells, sights and intrigues of that wilder, yet no less dangerous, era are all in "The Bandit of Kabul."
Using Asia as a home base, the author and an assortment of his here-now-and-possibly-never-again fellow male and female adventurers and entrepreneurs blaze trails similar to Ken Kesey, Jack London and Kerouac. In fact, Kesey's cohorts appear among the many colorful characters in this counter-culture history. All journey by rickety buses, ox carts or horseback to explore the pre-Taliban world of the opiated East. We will begin by running hard and fast from the breakout of war!
To quote:
"Our first train trip was not nearly so posh. We were two of twelve, emitting excessive body odor from nervous fear . . . at Allahabad, we were forced off the train when it was commandeered by soldiers for the war effort."
That took place in India when the 1971 Indo/Pakistan war broke out.
Or, in Kabul:
"The gun slipped out of Billy Batman's hands, dropped to the floor, discharged and shot him in the testicles. He chose to die. Billy's wife said it was a conscious decision."
And have you ever been to a Christmas Day beach party in Goa?
"After piling a half dozen sated and stoned party-goers into boats and clearing the shore break . . . the fishermen set up for themselves several bottles of an illegal, powerful whiskey and launched into a celebration of their own . . . they swilled liquor until they were blind drunk . . . these outriggers were very narrow and no one had any experience in manning such a craft . . . we managed, by hand signals and body language, to get them to row us ashore for a swim at Chapora Beach. After a relaxing, enjoyable dip and a few hits off the chillum, it was then up to us to pile the besotted fishermen, now asleep, back into the boats and launch ourselves and the other fools towards our home beach - in the darkness, through shark-filled waters."
A four-part autobiography, "The Bandit of Kabul" is book two of the series "As the Prayer Wheel Turns." Book one "Hoosiers and Hippies in the Sixties" is due out in January.
Reviewed by Ed Leslie, now retired after 35 years writing for television and print.
Stinson Beach, CA.
Larger than life adventures.......2006-09-20
The Bandit of Kabul fell into my hands unexpectedly. In other words, I probably would not have picked it up at a bookstore. Like many gifts, this book was a genuine pleasure to have received. These adventures of a wide cast of "characters" are crazy and riveting. Additionally, the descriptions of Afghanistan, at that time in history, are vividly done. Hands down, this author has lived a story wilder than the earlier American beatnicks and counter culture tripsters. He took the road trip to new heights, so to speak. Not wanting to downplay the originality of hitting the American highways as described by Kerouac and Kesey, nevertheless, that is a far cry from riding horses through treacherous mountain passes in Afghanistan. Author Beisler and friends were smart, young and had nerves of steel!
Wild women in an untamed country.......2006-09-06
Even if I were not on the scene prior to the time that this book takes place, I would enjoy reading about Jerry's high adventures along the now infamous hashish trail. I'm captivated by his love of adventure, political awareness and romantic vision. The characters and settings come to life in vivid detail punctuated by the wonderful snapshots that add spice to an already tasty book. Historians, politicians, archivists take note - this is the real deal.
A rollicking good read for those who 'missed the boat'.......2006-09-06
I saw this book in my local shop and liked the cover and the title. As one who had done a little traveling in Asia I was intrigued about the adventures Jerry and his intrepid friends had back when some of these countries were still somewhat innocent and open to westerners rather than the dark footnotes to current events they've become today. These guys' (I use the term loosely...) appetite for adventure and exotic travel knew no bounds in the anything goes era of the late sixties and early seventies.
As an old pot-smoking hippie myself I enjoyed their continuing quest for the next hashish haven. The descriptions of the places and the never-ending mad-cap adventures kept me turning the pages till there were none left. It, apparently, wasn't all fun and games as there were several near-death situations and judging by the last chapter, entitled: Where Are They Now? This parapatetic, picaresque life was not for the faint of heart as it seems that about every third person depicted in the book is either in jail or deceased. This 'Kat from Kabul' must be on one of his last lives. I highly reccommend this to anyone who ever wondered what it was like to be a wild and crazy hippie back in the day on the 'hashish trail'.
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My Day with Barney (A Turn-Around Wheel Book)
Maureen Valvassori
Manufacturer: Scholastic
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It's the wheel of life!.......2006-01-13
You have to spin it to appreciate it.
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Another Turn of the Wheel
Tarry S. Ionta
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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ASIN: 0595252621 |
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Hobart Fenn, desperately wanting to leave the artificial satellite that is his home, has been secretly working to prepare a ship that will take him to the home of his ancestors, Earth.
To those living on The Wheel Earth is no longer habitable, having been ravaged by a deadly experimental virus that killed off all human life on the planet. Fenn doubts this and is determined to find out for himself. His efforts to find the truth lead him in a struggle against the evil, dictatorial rulers of The Wheel. In so doing he finds his destiny, that of attempting to unite two very different cultures.
His adventures bring him, and his new friends, surprises and dangers that he could not possibly have envisaged.
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As the wheel turns
Anne Tufts
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