Tracker's Travail - Book The Second in the Topher Trilogy

James Noll

Editora: PULP!

Sinopse

Come travel down the dark recesses of the human mind, accompany the doomed inhabitants of a distant planet on their dangerous final mission, and tour the paranormal corners of Fredericksburg, Virginia with four more short stories and a new novel from the author of A Knife in the Back.
"Milly-Anne" doesn't let autism get in her way. She's smart. Smarter than her mother, smarter than her classmates, and definitely smarter than Mr. Tull, her principal. But something horrific is spawning in the air ducts of her school, and she can't make anybody understand just how much danger they are in.
In "Like This?," the psychiatrists release Jefferson Jefferson from the institution early. They shouldn't have.
In "The Unan," Bear, Lily, and the old man barely escape a deadly outbreak in their compound. They take to the jungle, where unknown peril awaits.
In "Savages," a fireball streaks through the heavens above the peaceful valley where the White One, the Brother of Rhoem, has lived for years with his cousins, the Unan. The chief of the Unan thinks it may be a message from the gods, but the White One knows it is a different kind of visitor. 
Tracker's Travail picks up the story of Topher, Zorn, and Gertrude years after their escape from Raleigh's Prep.. Arriving in Fredericksburg, Virginia just in time to stop a Class IV CZA, they quickly find themselves embroiled in various other misadventures. Who would have thought such a quaint little town could be so lethal?

Disponível desde: 01/01/2014.

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