Jupiter's Bones: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)

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Faye Kellerman's 11th Peter Decker-Rina Lazarus mystery takes police lieutenant Decker into the enclave of a Heaven's Gate-style pseudoscientific religious cult, the Order of the Rings of God. The cult's leader, a former world-class physicist who styles himself Jupiter, has died of an ungodlike combination of liquor and prescription drugs, but whether it was accident, suicide, or murder is suspiciously murky. The death is mysteriously reported by Jupiter's estranged daughter Europa, a scientist who has nothing to do with the cult, and when the police arrive on the scene, they find that Jupiter's followers, particularly his four unpleasantly ambitious personal attendants, range from uncooperative to downright hostile. Decker's suspicions kick into high gear when two other cult members go missing and another body turns up. But with the tense situation threatening to unravel as explosively as Jonestown or Waco, it's Marge, Decker's professional sidekick, who penetrates the cult's inner sanctum and effects a scary eleventh-hour rescue.

For Decker, as always, the mystery serves to offset the tempestuous Orthodox Jewish family life that he married into. Sammy, Rina's older son, wants to study in a politically unstable region of Israel, and Jake, the younger, is teetering on the edge of a most unorthodox social scene of girls, porn movies, and pot. Kellerman knows how to craft a compelling mystery, but it's the honesty of Decker's unique religious and family struggles that keeps mystery fans interested book after book. If you're new to this series, you'll want to begin at the beginning with The Ritual Bath. --Barrie Trinkle

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Narrator Jordan Lage uses his diverse background in theater, film, and television for all it's worth, creating a menagerie of quirky character voices and pumping the spooky meter to 11. But it really isn't necessary. Faye Kellerman's story, centering on the suspicious death of a charismatic cult leader and the deadly reactions of his followers, is mysterious and entertaining enough without all the vocal gymnastics. When playing it straight, Lage does a credible job with an intriguing and compelling plot. Next time, he might consider leaving out "dis, dat, and de uddah ting." (Running time: 4.5 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney

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Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a worldrenowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.

Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did someone hasten Jupiter prematurely out of this world? These are the questions LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his Homicide team are determined to answer as they enter the cult's fortresslike compound. But the dead leader's four "privileged" attendants make it clear that the police are not welcome there--and the mysterious disappearance of two of the Order's members, including a child, turns an already uncomfortable situation even uglier and more incendiary. Decker will need more than the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden pasts, and deadly secrets--one that could explode at any time into mayhem so pernicious that it threatens to destroy a multitude of misguided lives--and scores of helpless, innocent children as well.

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Great Read!.......2004-05-19

One of the best mystery/crime novels I have read. I think it would make a wonderful movie too.

Lots of Suspects, Including a Gaggle of Gurus.......2004-03-08

L.A. Police Lieutenant Pete Decker is called in to investigate the death of a cult leader, the charismatic Father Jupiter of the Order of the Rings of God, the former famous astromoner, Dr. Emil Ganz.

There are suspects galore. Ganz had made a lot of enemies when he was a scientist and his leadership of the cult was coveted by some of his followers. Added to that are the relatives of people who have been lured into the cult. The police probably wouldn't even have been notified of Ganz's death, which had already been called a suicide by the other cult leaders, if someone hadn't told his estranged daughter. She, in turn, called the police.

Getting into the compound and getting cooperation from the members is difficult enough for Decker, but it's complicated by a struggle for power by the four privileged attendants, who are; Pluto, Venus, Nova and Bob. Brother Pluto is livid with anger because of the invasion of the police into their sacred sanctuary.

In addition to Jupiter's death, the police learn that two of the cult members, one a child, are missing. Pluto shifts between accusing the police and a cult deprogrammer of stealing these two from their happy home.

And as usual in a Faye Kellerman novel, there's problems on the home front. It appears that Decker's younger stepson, Jacob, is smoking pot and messing around with his girlfriend. For many parents that might seem like a teenage phase, but for Orthodox Jews it's a big deal.

Kellerman knows how to write a fast-moving, suspenseful story involving people the reader learns to care about. She also manges to educate the reader about her religion without seeming to preach. Somehow she does it, without it getting in the way of the story. All and all, a very good read.

WRITER'S ARTHRITIS?.......2003-11-16

After her last two books, I expected much more than JUPITER'S BONES delivers. While the book focuses on one of those Jonestown cults, Kellerman wastes no time in assuming that anything outside the Jewish realm is fair game to the typical barbs and jokes. While in this case, the barbs are justified, Kellerman's continued use of religious stereotypes and obvious religious prejudice, I still think Kellerman should focus more on her mysteries than her religious predilections.
In Ms. Kellerman's favor, she continues to develop her supporting characters, particularly Tom Webster, who is becoming one of my favorite characters as he is smart, witty, and intensely human. Marge's character gets more attention, and although her actions regarding Vega are just too Pollyannish, she remains an enigmatic figure. Why does she have trouble in her relationships? Hmmm..the focus on Sammy and Jacob's problems is a nice touch, but they don't seem like real teenagers at all in Kellerman's hands. They always do the right thing and when they start wandering away from their religious background, Rina harnesses them back in, not all that convincingly either.
Kellerman has remarkably good skills in her writing; this one's too formulaic to be one of her best, but it has moments of real brilliance.

Fine Writing, Great Entertainment.......2003-10-08

Faye Kellerman is a very talented writer on many levels, and "Jupiter's Bones" shows her skills in no small way.

When the leader of a local cult is found dead in his "cell" of an apparent suicide, Peter Decker finds himself reluctantly on the case--only because at one time, "Father Jupiter" had been a world-renowned scientist. It looks like a cut-and-dried suicide, and only the man's former prestige requires a pro forma police presence to verify the fact. But of course nothing is as it seems.

What seems to be the suicide of an aging patriarch, albeit a cult leader, turns out to be much, much more. And the disciples in this particular cult, most notably Venus, Pluto and Bob (yes, Bob!), are not exactly the godly unworldly beings they appear to be before their followers. Amid the white robes, robot-like followers, and spartan cells exists an undercurrent of intense evil that threatens to boil over at any moment.

Kellerman freely borrows some of her plot from real-life cult situations like Jonestown, and says so (as Peter Decker frequently compares various situations within the cult to others from the past), so there is no attempt on her part to con the reader, something I greatly appreciated.

While Decker tiptoes around the increasingly volatile cult situation, there is also a situation at home, one I found annoying because it had no resolution. The younger son, Jacob, is straining against the bonds of his very orthodox religion, and is starting to rebel. The way Decker and Rina handle this situation went against the grain with me--I find the two boys too good for the real world, and it bothers me as a reader. Rina's religion is a given, and makes her what she is, but it is also completely rigid where her boys are concerned. This is probably true to life, but does not make for a good plot line, because it is very hard to understand unless one lives within the world of the very religious. The worst part, though, is that the situation, which is very grave, is solved in one sentence at the very end of the book, or at least seems to be solved. Because of that, I took a point off what should have been a five-star story.

On the other hand, the last 50 pages of this book had me completely mesmerized, unable to turn the pages fast enough. The ending was masterful, and left this reader, at least, questioning just how human the human race is. This is a good, solid read and I recommend it highly.

Peter deals with a religious cult.......2003-06-14

Police Lieutenant Peter Decker is called in on the death of a charismatic leader of a religious cult called the Order of the Rings. The deceased was a well-known astophysicist named Emil Ganz who had disappeared and then surfaced as Father Jupiter, the leader of the cult. His death is reported to the police by his daughter, Europa, who is not involved with the cult but who had followed her father's footsteps into his occupation. When Decker and the LAPD try to investigate the death, Jupiter's four lieutenants try to stonewall their efforts. Soon there is another death, and some disappearances from the compound where the cult lives. Decker and his cohorts are horrified as they uncover the secrets of the Order of the Rings. Peter's longtime partner Marge plays a pivotal role in an exciting rescue attempt at the end of the book where the action really peaks. Peter also discovers some long-hidden secrets about his stepsons, but as usual, his homelife takes second place to his professional one. This is another good entry to the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Series from the gifted writer, Faye Kellerman.

Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder (Sailor Moon Scout Guide)

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A THUNDERBOLT OF GREAT LITERATURE!
Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder
The Many Sides of Jupiter
Sailor Moon
Better ^_^

Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder (Sailor Moon Scout Guide)

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A THUNDERBOLT OF GREAT LITERATURE!.......2006-09-25

Lita is one of my favorite sailor scouts and this book shows all about her. It shows not only the side of her you usually see but the ice skateing, dancing, cooking, very femenine Lita. I did get a little mixed info about her though. In the book it says she is an orphan which is what I hear most of the time but in an episode os Sailor Moon S she said she couldn't have a cat because her mom was alergic. Oh well the rest is great! But sometimes you need to turn the book sideways to read the text by the pictures.

Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder.......2006-07-10

This book is about Makoto Kino/Lita Kino, Sailor Jupiter. It has:
A comic of how Makoto became Sailor Jupiter.
Pictures of "Jupiter Star Power"
Pictures of her superpowers
Usagi(Serena)'s photo gallery of Makoto pictures
5 of Makoto's best stories
Information about Jupiter
50 questions with Makoto's answer
Pictures of all the other Sailor Soldiers
Pictures of Makoto's other friends
Pictures of Makoto with Usagi
A list of some of the battles
Poems

Most of the answers to the 50 questions were also in Sailor Moon manga #10, and if you're a fan of the show you'll probably already know the transformation and powers. I already did, but I still liked the book, even though I knew a lot of the things in it. I've read it several times, along with the others.
This series includes:
Meet Sailor Moon: Crystal
Meet Sailor Venus: Love
Meet Sailor Mercury: Ice
Meet Sailor Mars: Fire
Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder
P.S. They should make books for Rini/Chibi Usa (Sailor Mini Moon), Haruka(Amara)/Sailor Uranus, Michiru(Michelle)/Sailor Neptune, Setsuna(Tresta)/Sailor Pluto, Hotaru/Sailor Saturn, and Mamoru(Darien)/Tuxedo Mask. I would buy them, too. Hotaru is one of my favorite characters.

The Many Sides of Jupiter.......2004-10-23

This book shows the many sides of Sailor Jupiter, including her tomboy side, feminine side, romantic side, friendly side, and possibly everyones' favorite side, the strong, protective side of her that beats up bullies, and destroys monsters. My favorite parts of this book were 50 Secrets Of Sailor Jupiter, and the few pictures scattered around the book that show Lita's Japanese-style lunches...yum! I love how, like I said above, Sailor Jupiter is a mix of so many different types of girl. It makes her Scout Guide one of my favorites.

I FINALLY figured out why the stories in the Scout Guides are in such an odd order. You're supposed to read them like you would a manga book, from right to left. I can't say the same for the attacks and transformations, though, which are in rather poor order. You have to have watched Sailor Moon a lot to know what order certain things go in; but if you're a really big Sailor Moon fan, you probably won't enjoy this book anyway, because it basically just talks about stuff you'll already know from watching the TV series.

I would recommend this book to Jupiter fans who haven't seen too much of the show, or any Jupiter fan who wants information about their favorite Sailor Scout in a handy book to keep.

CAUTION: This book contains very mature content, and should not be freely read by younger children.

Sailor Moon.......2004-09-13

I used to like Sailor Moon about...maybe three or four years ago. It was my favorite show, and I'd have a fit if I missed it! I collected the books, action figures, I even had a poster.

Then I started noticing things, and so did my mom. Like most Japanese animation shows today, Sailor Moon started out as a really trashy comic, but unlike the others, they carried the trash into the TV show, and the other books, too.

If I were to name what was in those books, someone would probably report my review. I advise parents, and kids getting into Sailor Moon, don't buy the books, toys, nothing!

Here are some other anime shows I would recommend (I wouldn't recommend any anime comics, including comics about the shows I'm getting ready to name. I'm also not going to get into every detail about these shows, so it is possible you'll find something you don't like in one when you watch it.):

DragonBall Z
Yu-Gi-Oh
Pok'emon
Totally Spies

P.S. This book is no exception to the trash.

P.P.S. Sorry, if you like Sailor Moon, but please don't tell others I'm wrong, because I'm not! Trust me!

Better ^_^.......2003-10-15

Sailor Jupiter's scout guide is pretty good. It's detailed, the information is correct, and the pictures look fabulous! The guide also lists all of Sailor Jupiter's attacks, her fashion sense, and fifty secrets about Lita! (Sailor Jupiter) But there are some downsides to this book. T_T Pictures are all over the place, with words written on the sides of the pictures. So, you have to flip the book around in order to read it. (Which can hurt your neck after awhile ^-^;) Some of the book leaves out entire parts on the epoisode summries. And also, sometimes the book has subbed version terms in it. Like 'Dark Kingdom' is supposed to be the 'Negaverse". So if you're not familar with the subbed version or manga version of SM, you might get a little confused. ^^; Anyhoo, you should buy this scout guide!

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More Solar System Adventures from Ben Bova
One of Bova's Best - A Science Fiction Masterpiece
No sublety, SciFi of the lowest order
Beyond Life As We Know It
A Scientist and Believer

Jupiter: A Novel (The Grand Tour)
Ben Bova
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He made planetfall on Venus and all but colonized Mars, so it's not surprising that SF don Ben Bova finally set his sights on our solar system's swirling, red-eyed sovereign.

As with his previous planetary exploration books, Jupiter plants you right in the heart of the action, witness to the speculative science and political intrigue--and in this case, religious machination--that surround a fast-paced, dangerous, and technically fleshed-out mission. Our unlikely hero on this touchdown is an earnest, likeable, hard-working grad student named Grant Archer, a frustrated astrophysicist who's been shanghaied aboard Jupiter's Gold space station to fulfill a ROTC-style public-service commitment. What's worse, this devout young man has been ordered by the New Morality--the American flavor of the conservative religious order that runs Earth nowadays--to spy on some suspicious research involving alleged Jovian life forms.

Bova begins his book with an A.C. Clarke quote: "The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths." This tells you pretty much everything you need to know about where this book's going, and who, respectively, will be wearing the white and the black hats (unfortunately, some of the characterizations don't get much deeper). That the central protagonist is both a Christian and a scientist makes for some fertile character development, but Bova's not exactly gunning for God here--he's happy just to blast away at narrow-minded ideologues and other assorted religious fanatics. (But that, of course, is about as easy as making teenagers depressed.) --Paul Hughes

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Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system-with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all.What Grant's would-be controllers don't know is that his loyalty to science may be greater than his desire for a quiet life. But that loyalty will be tested in a mission as dangerous as any ever undertaken-a mission to the middle reaches of Jupiter's endless atmosphere, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, and cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time.What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on....and stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined.

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More Solar System Adventures from Ben Bova.......2007-08-22

Action and adventure are rampant in this "grand tour" novel of the largest planet in the solar system.

The main character in the book is Grant Archer. Recently graduated from college with a degree in astrophysics, Grant longs for the opportunity to study black holes and other celestial matter. However, the powers-that-be have different ideas for him. Required to perform four years of "public service", Grant is sent by Ellis Beech, head of the New Morality, to Jupiter. According to Beech, those people working on Space Station Gold have apparently been searching for signs of life on Jupiter's satellites as well as Jupiter itself. This does not sit well with Beech and the New Morality, for they believe that any form of life outside of earth is "godless". Beech is sending Grant to spy on the members of Space Station Gold and report his findings to the New Morality. To make matters worse for him, Grant is newly-married, and will now be without his wife for six years. Dejected, Grant accepts and begins the long journey to Jupiter.

After traveling for a year, Grant finally arrives at Jupiter, where he immediately meets Egon, who is the personnel director (at least for this week). Besides meeting Egon, Grant is also introduced to Lane O'Hara, a stunningly beautiful woman who is one of the scientists studying the possibilities of life existing on the planet. But Zhang Wo, the director of Space Station Gold, is the one who really gets Grant's attention. Their relationship is icy at best, but as the story goes along, the two bond and become friends. Meanwhile, Grant is introduced to the rest of the Jupiter team: Zeb, Irene, Quintero, Buono, Uhara, and Krebs. Earlier, a probe was launched to penetrate the clouds of Jupiter and plunge into Jupiter's ocean to see if any life existed there. The mission was a failure. Now, a new mission is being planned, and Grant is to be one of the crew. Will this mission succeed, or will it fail like the previous one? Will life be discovered in Jupiter's ocean?

In keeping with the tradition of his other novels, Ben Bova has created an exciting story containing action and intrigue. Perhaps the strongest point of Bova's writing is his character development. Each character in this book is well-developed, and the reader can bond immediately with them. From the chilly Wo to the somewhat apprehensive Archer, Bova has developed characters that the reader can truly relate to. The story itself is very well-conceived, and the action is non-stop.

I recommend this book very highly. I've read others from Bova's "grand tour" series, and this book is as good as any I've read so far. If you're a fan of good science fiction, then don't miss Bova's "Jupiter. Highly recommended.

One of Bova's Best - A Science Fiction Masterpiece.......2007-06-25

Ben Bova is the last writer of the John W. Campbell Jr. mode. That is to say, a writer who takes plausible scientific principles and applies them to characters who must take action to resolve a clear conflict. He thus writes best about engineers, astronauts, explorers. He also writes well about politics and commerce (businesses operating in outer space, for example). But JUPITER (like VENUS) is an extraordinary achievement and has all the "sense of wonder" that's oftentimes missing in current science fiction. Lately, most sf is overladen with one trope after another, one sci-fi conceit or gimmick after another with no care to the evolution of characters in a scientific environment. JUPITER places several characters in believable circumstances with a few discoveries along the way. I've read this book three times now and it still works its wonders on me. Most writers, when they're dead and gone, will be remembered for one or two books or stories. I think JUPITER and VENUS will be among those books by Bova that will remain classics. Highly recommended!

No sublety, SciFi of the lowest order.......2007-03-09

I love scifi, but I'm at a loss to explain the success of Bova's books. His writing is predictable and often repetitive, his plots are loose, and his characters are flat. His technology is contrived, and thinly explained. This book hits you over the head with his philosophy on science versus religion, and instead of asking interesting questions on that front, resorts to near lecturing using the unispired device of character thought monologue. About halfway through this book I lost interest.

Beyond Life As We Know It.......2006-08-20

On the second stop in Ben Bova's Grand Tour of our solar system, we explore the mysteries of the planet Jupiter-the largest gas giant in the system. Though we have a good starting idea of what type of planet Jupiter is--a massive ball of gas that rotates at a high speed, with bands of clouds circling the upper atmosphere and a giant, centuries old hurricane called the Red Spot that could swallow Earth itself. We also believe that Jupiter has a liquid metal hydrogen center surrounding a small rocky ball. Most likely, Jupiter is a failed companion star to Sol that never reached enough mass to ignite; a potential companion star that has a few of its own worlds circling it, including Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Io...each with its own mysteries to be solved.

In "Jupiter", young, astrophysics graduate Grant Archer has his eyes set on studying black holes from the moon for his graduate studies; newly married, Grant must serve out four years of Public Service to the state for their generous funding of his education, and what better way, Grant believes, than this. But, the state, which is controlled by the New Morality, has other ideas for Grant: as a spy on Space Station Gold circling Jupiter where scientists are defying the state's desires and studying life on Jupiter's moons and in Jupiter itself. This study of extraterrestrial life has the potential of challenging the New Morality's view of reality, and they don't like it at all. Grant--a believer, but not a Zealot--is miffed at the idea, especially since there is no astrophysics research being conducted at Jupiter; a complete waste of his talents and time he believes. But, Grant has no choice, Public Service is Public Service; and if he can find out what the New Morality wants to know quickly, then maybe they will ship him back to the moon where he belongs.

What Grant is yet to learn, is what role he will ultimately play within the secretive space station and its mission of discovering what the large shapes moving around inside of Jupiter's world spanning ocean are...and are they intelligent?

Ben Bova weaves a tight, straight forward tale about a mission to the heart of Jupiter where our understanding of fluid dynamics are incomplete when it comes to the dynamics of a gas atmosphere that subtly becomes liquid ammonia-laced water without a distinct boundary. Bova speculates on the potential of a gas giant like Jupiter to support life--both microscopic and large and intelligent. I have recently read a few books that bring in gas giant life forms into the storyline, but "Jupiter" tackles the topic head on.

Unlike some of the more multi-layered space opera being crafted today, Ben Bova is a bit more old school; and, that is not a bad thing. It is a nice change of pace to read a good book about space exploration that is a simple adventure tale while tackling our understanding of our solar system and the universe at large. And, I enjoyed what is also a simple moral tale as well, where a young self- absorbed grad student grows up and discovers the difference between right and wrong without the help of a "New Morality".

A Scientist and Believer.......2006-08-15

Jupiter (2001) is the second SF novel in the Planet Novel series, following Venus. In this volume, Grant Archer graduated with a degree in Astrophysics and expected to spend his two years of Public Service at Farside Observatory studying black holes. His wife would be serving with the Peacekeepers on Earth, but he should be able to spend his furloughs with her. Then the New Morality changed his Public Service tour to four years on Thomas Gold station orbiting around the planet Jupiter.

Grant appeals his assignment through New Morality channels to regional director Ellis Beech. There Grant is told that something unusual is occurring at the station and that he is to report any such suspicious actions to Beech. Grant is a Believer, but he doesn't fancy himself as a spy. However, he realizes that Beech could easily assign him to some obnoxious manual labor job and starts agreeing with the director's complaints.

After more than a year in transit, the rundown freighter Oral Roberts finally docks at Gold station. In the boarding tunnel, Grant notices an asymmetrical feature on one side of the torus that he doesn't recognize from his study of the station diagrams. Then he is met by Egon Farland, given a brief tour, and shown to his compartment.

As soon as he can, Grant tries to discover the purpose of the strange arrangement, but the computer gives him a message stating that the subject is not for public dissemination. After he tries several other ways of tracking down the object through the computer, Grant is summoned to the station director's office and told that he has no business trying to access such information. Zhang Wo declares that he has made a bad start on the station and directs him to report to the security office.

Lane O'hara, the current security director, is a beautiful woman who renders him speechless in admiration. In her initial conversation with Grant, Lane is vibrant and convivial, but soon displays a stern demeanor as she conveys the official briefing. After completing the formalities, she sends him to the personnel director, who turns out to be Farland. When Grant displays his puzzlement, Egon informs him that each of the scientific staff temporarily fills the administrative roles in the Jupiter system, thus allowing more scooters -- i.e., scientists -- on the staff and reducing the number of beancounters.

Almost all the scooters in the system are studying the various moons. However, both Lane and Egon are assigned to the Jupiter study group. Grant soon meets others is this study group: Zeb Muzorawa, Irene Pascal, Frankovich, Ignacio Quintero, Patti Buono, Kayla Ukara, and Christel Krebs. He also learns that five members of this group will be going below the clouds of Jupiter in the ship that he had first seen from the boarding tube. Little does he know that he will be one of them.

Director Wo is devoted to finding out whether the lifeforms spotted in the first dive of the saucer-shaped ship are intelligent. He has imposed strict security because the danger from Zealots in the New Morality and other like groups. Such Zealots take "Man was made in God's image" as their manifesto and they would assassinate anyone who tries to prove otherwise.

This novel continues the struggle between the fundamentalists in political power and the scientists who search for new lifeforms in the universe. Unfortunately for the fundamentalists, the scientists keep finding new indications of life within the solar system. Since these Believers depend upon the products of science and technology, how can they prevent the scientists and technologists from following their own agenda?

Logically speaking, fundamentalism is based on the most primitive of worldviews and belongs in a primitive society. Global warming killed off much of the world population and fundamentalism was acceptable to the survivors. However, population controls are not acceptable to most primitive societies and only caused resentment among the descendants of these survivors.

With a growing population, survival itself has once again become dependent upon technology. Now the fundamentalists are caught between the rock of their own beliefs and the hard place of group and individual survival. Compromise becomes a necessity, yet the Zealots are not compromisers.

Recommended for Bova fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of planetary exploration and moral dilemmas.

-Arthur W. Jordin

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Continuing to Expand on the Coming of Age Adventures of the Jupiter Novels
A Long Way From The Farm
Solid "Roots"
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Putting Up Roots: A Jupiter Novel
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When Josh and his autistic cousin Dawn are sent to the planet Solferino, they join a group of kids already working for an interplanetary conglomerate stationed there. Assured by the bosses that no intelligent life exists on Solferino, Josh and Dawn come to suspect otherwise. Especially when Dawn makes contact with one of the creatures, a creature with whom she shares a mysterious ability to communicate.With the corporation pressuring them, Josh and Dawn are drawn into a battle to save the creatures. And, it turns out, to save themselves.

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Continuing to Expand on the Coming of Age Adventures of the Jupiter Novels.......2007-07-14

Another leap forward in time and a further expansion of Earth's reach into space are the setting for the third tale in the Jupiter Novel series of coming of age adventure science fiction stories in the spirit of Heinlein and his generation. On the far side of the Messina Dust Cloud (27 light years from Earth), a star system has been discovered and explored. On the planet Solferino, Foodlines - a gigantic conglomerate that has taken over most of the farms on Earth - has exclusive rights to extraction and development; on nearby Cauldron, Unimine - the mining conglomerate of Earth - has exclusive rights. To develop Solferino for farming as well as to explore it for new and useful compounds, Foodlines needs new recruits.

On earth, Josh Kerrigan is the son of an aspiring and always a step short of success actress that decides she needs to be free of him to finally break through; so she dumps him on her brother, his wife, and their autistic daughter Dawn on a small farm in Oregon. Josh travels across the country to a place with fond memories from a vacation visit years earlier; but, when he arrives, he discovers a changed landscape. The farm is struggling to survive as it is surrounded by megafarms operated by Foodlines. Foodlines is in the midst of buying the farm and sending the family to Solferino for a fresh start and an opportunity to farm an alien landscape.

Josh and Dawn are shipped ahead with other teenagers to be trained on the strange planet dominated by weird plant life and harmless fauna. Once there, they are put into the care of Sol Brewster, the sole person on the planet as the rest of the inhabitants have been shipped off-planet for medical tests regarding some magical health affects the planet has - or so Brewster claims. Soon after they arrive, Winnie Carlson arrives to assume the role of maintenance chief.

But, not all is as it seems on Solferino. As the kids begin to build friendships and cliques, they are run ragged by Brewster on tasks that don't seem to add up to what he claims them to be. Through their own guile and street smarts, the kids start to piece together what is going on and their role in a larger game of corporate warfare.

Add to this, the possibility of an intelligent lifeform on the planet, and we have another tale of coming of age and self discovery in the Jupiter Novel universe. Unfortunately, *Putting Up Roots* doesn't quite delivery like *Higher Education* and *The Billion Dollar Boy* do in the first two books in the series. Though it has moments of interesting exploration of the planet, the overall plot is a little thin and predictable. That said, I do look forward to reading the last three books in this series.

A Long Way From The Farm.......2003-09-29

When fourteen year old Josh Kerrigan is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their farm, his first surprise is that his aunt has died and his uncle has remarried to a woman named Stacy who is more interested in getting rid of him and his autistic cousin Dawn then in any sort of farming. She has arranged, much to Uncle Ryan's distaste with a large conglomerate to take over their small farm and provide them with a new farm on a largely unexplored planet called Solferino. There is just one catch - someone must go there immediately to stake their claim. She sends Josh and Dawn - though it appears that she has little intent of following.

Once there, it seems that everything is amiss. First, when the group arrives, there is no one there to greet them. Later, an unexpected maintenance technician shows up. Their boss, Sol Brewster, keeps moving them around like he is trying to hide something. Then suddenly the computer system and communication system fail - at virtually the same time - thus preventing them from investigating what is going on or seeking help from outside.

Things get more alarming when they begin to see strange ships on the horizon. Now Kerrigan and his fellow teens must uncover the secret of Solferino. They will come within inches of death trying to figure it out.

Putting up Roots may not be the most consistently exciting book that you ever read; in fact, there is a point in the middle where it gets a little slow - the proverbial calm before the storm. But, like in most good mysteries, once we - and the characters - begin to understand the facts, the book becomes a page-turner that is nearly impossible to put down. The book deals with a variety of ethical issues surrounding child labor, space exploration and inhabitation rights. A good read that seems targeted at either teen or adult (similar, in that nature, to Ender's Game), Putting Up Roots won't leave you disappointed.

Solid "Roots".......2003-04-22

Juvenile scifi, a much-neglected area, has been given a boost in the last year or two by TOR's Starscape books. One of the new releases is Charles Sheffield's "Putting Up Roots," an unexceptional but likable scifi story with a good cast, though a slightly predictable storyline.

Joshua's mother, a self-absorbed actress, sends him to live with his relatives at Burnt Willow Farm. Having had a good time there eight years before, Joshua is pleased -- until he gets there. He learns that his aunt has died in that time, and his uncle has remarried a sharp-tongued shrew called Stacy, who doesn't hesitate to make him feel unwelcome. She isn't much kinder to her stepdaughter Dawn, an autistic girl who says practically nothing. But Dawn hears and understands a lot more than she seems.

Stacy, in an effort to get her husband to sell the farm, sends the two kids to the untamed planet of Solferino, which has only some lower animals and a lot of plants. To make matters worse, the transport has a bunch of other rejected kids -- four sisters with gemstone names (one of whom is a druggie), and three boys who have Wagnerian names (ex-street thugs). And when the kids arrive on Solferino, Joshua begins to suspect that their bullying supervisor is hiding a dark secret about Solferino's value -- and about the presence of innocent, intelligent creatures on it.

The pacing is the main problem with "Putting Up Roots" -- it starts off rapidly, lags for a long time, then picks up in the last chapters of the book. And the ruperts aren't as big a part of the story as you'd expect. Despite this, it's a fairly good SF adventure story, with its realistic corporate battles and suitably bizarre aliens and planets.

Joshua is a pretty likable hero, especially since he tends to take a very balanced view of what's good or bad. A lot of characters in that sort of situation start whining about what they don't want to do, but Sheffield doesn't. Dawn is a fairly good supporting character, but has a tendency to fade out when she isn't being focused on. Topaz is much more vivid and present in the story. And supporting characters like Sig and Saph are similarly good -- even if you don't totally like them, Sheffield will let you see why they are what they are.

His writing is pretty descriptive, but not immensely. (I occasionally felt frustrated when told that an object was brown and "rounded," but nothing more) And he does an excellent job with the dynamics of the teens in the group -- not everybody is friendly, and not everyone trusts. If you like a little tension in your heroes rather than a big band of buddies, you'll like this.

"Putting Up Roots" isn't perfect, but a flair for characterization saves it from being totally average. Good solid read.

Putting Up Roots.......2001-11-28

Putting Up Roots
Charles Sheffield
Science Fiction
A boy and his autistic cousin are sent to a far away planet to participate in a research program. It starts out normal enough but there is a sick twist when they find out what their leader is up to. The end is full of action and excitement when it comes time for them to stop his plans.
I've never really read any books like this before with such an extreme change directly in the middle of the novel. It starts out very slow and continues in that fashion until about halfway through where there so much action and so many events going on you can hardly set the book down. It really surprised me and I ended up fairly pleased with the book but the slow intro and begining is my reason for 4 stars.
My personal reaction to the book is pretty good. Sheffield has many unique characters in the book that make for many interesting conflicts when they come together. I also enjoyed the happy ending though it has a bit of a twist. The characters start to get along better and they begin to accept the planet as their own home. This novel also covers the topic of intelligent life on alien planets. The suprise about their leader is very exciting and gets better as the book goes on. "He had found what he wanted, and we were no more use to him." pg. 206. This is what I loved most about his book, the surprises come out of nowhere with absolutely no hint making it a very fun and leaving the reader with no idea whats going to happen next.
I do not think this book is for everyone. It would be best for patient readers, because of its slow start I had trouble keeping the book open for more than 30 minutes or so.

Ender's Game Lite........2001-07-14

A surprising turn of events leaves teen-aged Josh Kerrigan twenty-seven light years from Earth on the frontier planet Solferino - with a crew of young trainees and a cruel brigadeer. But Josh's frustrated attempts to figure out Solomon Brewster's true motives are complicated by the fact that he must look after his autistic cousin Dawn and get along with the rest of the group - which includes bullies and drug-addicts.

"Putting Up Roots" is well-written, if entirely unexceptional. The characters are simple and convincingly human - even if the science lacks the "wow-factor" and Brewster's criminal machinations are extremely easy to figure out. The book's real merit is that it reads quickly and easily. A likely candidate for rainy-day reading, "Putting Up Roots" can also be categorized as a young adult novel - making it a nice, quick introduction to the genre.

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First Book in the Jupiter Series - a Homage to Heinlein and the Heyday of the Coming of Age Science Fiction Tales

Falls short of Heinlein

Very worth the read

A Decent Yarn

Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield don't mix

Higher Education: A Jupiter Novel
Charles Sheffield , and Jerry Pournelle
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go but down. Instead, he gets a second chance--and a whole new life--when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining.But life in space proves more challenging than Rick expected. Competition is intense and the harsh realties of space allow no room for error. On his way to a brighter future, Rick faces ever more demanding tests, as well as the very real dangers of sabotage and murder.

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First Book in the Jupiter Series - a Homage to Heinlein and the Heyday of the Coming of Age Science Fiction Tales.......2007-07-14

In the late 21st Century, our public education system has become so diluted and its standards so eroded that only the minimum necessary to function in the "pool" of itinerant labor is required of its students - students who can barely read because they have come to rely on technology to read for them. Only the well-to-do - who get a private education - and the children of those who work for the large corporations - who go to private schools run by the company - get a proper education that prepares them for success in the world order.

Enter Rick Luban. At 16, Rick is just another student passing time in a system that is mostly babysitting him and his friends while they wait to enter the pool. When a prank goes horribly wrong, Rick is expelled from school, leaving him with no hope for the future and his parents without a subsidy check. But, a teacher, recognizing potential in young Rick, offers him a ray of hope and gives him an address to go to - a place where he might find an opportunity to turn things around.

Thus begins Rick's adventures with Vantage Mining and Refining, an off-planet mining company that recognizes that the system is broken and that great potential lurks within the wasteland of the current education system - potential they see as the future of their success. After passing a battery of cognitive and physical tests, Rick is thrust into a competitive "Higher Education" program that will select the best of the best to work at Vantage's mining operations in the Asteroid Belt.

With a little intrigue thrown in, Sheffield and Pournelle have weaved an entertaining tale of a not-to-distant future that doesn't seem too far fetched as the youth of today mangle the written language in text messaging and emails and businesses have to send new employees fresh from college to remedial writing courses just to get adequate business communication out of them.

In the spirit of the now classic coming of age science fiction tales of Heinlein and his generation, *Higher Education* begins the new Jupiter Novel universe of loosely related stories of our coming future.

Falls short of Heinlein.......2007-05-12

An OK read for young adults, but falls short of Heinlein's entries in the genre. The authors attempt to combine a polemic on political correctness and our education system with a coming of age space yarn was not well done. The premise that the pioneering asteroid mining company would use illeterate teenagers as their hiring pool required too much suspension of belief. Where was the editor?

Very worth the read.......2007-05-03

I've read many of the books Pournelle has authored/co-authored. I've never been disappointed. His non-fiction is also worth reading. His political/social views are not mainstream. And that really aids his creativity. This, like other Pournelle books, is refreshing and creative. This book fits when you just need a good read that challenges new thoughts without struggling to pay attention (I've read too many books that require effort to finish--this isn't one of them).

A Decent Yarn.......2006-01-15

I picked it up because it is a study in dynamic characters. It was referred to in Dynamic Characters by Kress.

It is a teen-coming-of-age story set in the near future. The protagonist is a punk and gets himself thrown out of high school for being entirely too cute. He gets a second chance by signing up with Vanguard Mining- a company that mines asteroids.

The story takes him from raw recruit to a trained and ready apprentice.

Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield don't mix.......2004-06-13

Stunk! Foul language & gratuitous violence ruined any chance of a decent story.

Charles Sheffield on his own writes terrific stories.

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A masterpiece from "The Rimbaud of the novel"

Count d'Orgel: A novel; (A Jupiter book)
Raymond Radiguet
Manufacturer: Calder & Boyars
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006CRO92

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COUNT D'ORGEL is a study of a three-sided relationship set in Parisian society affter the First World War. Count Anne d'Orgel and his wife Maliant befriend the young Francois de Seryeuse, and find that their marriage is alternately qualified and confirmed by the feelings released.

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A masterpiece from "The Rimbaud of the novel".......2004-07-11

"Do the emotions that stir the heart of a woman like Madame d'Orgel belong to the past?" With this opening inquiry, Raymond Radiguet launches into a brilliant "analysis of feelings". This is his second, and last novel after the precocious and firey "Le Diable du Corps"; as he would die of typhoid fever in 1923 at the tender age of 20. From the get go, early in Chapter 1 Radiguet states: "Every age bears its fruit, one must know how to gather it." "Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel" is Radiguet's harvest.

Francois de Seryeuse is "exactly his age"; heedless and in love with the young Madame d'Orgel (Mahaut), a descendent of French-Martinque aristocracy. But Francois respects and admires her vane husband, the thirty year old Anne d'Orgel as a friend. Mahuat and Francois are soon delighted to discover that they are distant cousins, and thus brought a little closer to one another. Since their first meeting at the Medrano Circus in February, 1920 they have been smitten with each other. Francois "thought her beautiful, disdainful and absent-minded." Nevertheless, Mahuat is devoted and loyal to her husband even though he is seemingly indifferent to her. Anne "...began to love his wife from the moment he saw that Francois loved her, as though he needed the evidence of another man's desire to teach him her value." As for Francois, "The combination of [his] love and friendship brought about such a strange result, that he resolved to use all his influence with Orgel to make him love his wife better."

The beauty of this novel of internal drama lays in its delicacy of manner, and its concise, cubist/fauvist style. Radiguet writes as though wielding a razor-sharp rapier in place of a pen. Each sentence is laced with precise aphorisms and maxims, slashing, cutting, and thrusting into the psychology and motives of each character. Wallace Fowlie in his classic "Guide to Contemporary French Literature" writes of both Radiguet and his elder friend, Cocteau: "Their purely descriptive passages are more swift and condensed than the swiftest in Stendhal. They are most skillful in their depiction of brief moments, brief encounters. They are interested primarily in taking candid camera shots of man's adventure. Pictures which will relieve the monotony of a too familiar story." Radiguet's writing has been compared to that of Madame de Lafayette, and Choderlos de Laclos ("Dangerous Laisons"). Elements of Balzac and Nietszche are apparent as well. And yet, it's astounding to think such genius as this could come from one barely twenty years old! But, as Radiguet himself states of the infernal poet Arthur Rimbaud: "It is Rimbaud's work and not the age at which he wrote it that astounds me. All great poets have written at seventeen. The greatest are those who succeed in making one forget it." By Chapter 14 when Francois' and Mahaut's "secret love" becomes only slightly less secret as their arms magically entwine during a car ride with the Count; in Chapter 17 at a picnic on the Marne when the trio "...received a warning and each one just missed discovering a part of the truth"; and, later in Chapter 20 as the two kiss for only the second time, a kiss witnessed by Anne which was so "made not to order", I became fully convinced of Radiguet's greatness, as well as the agelessness of great works. After these almost inflammatory intrigues, Radiguet deftly manages to return the manage a trois "to it's proper place, that is to say into obscurity."

I can't recommend this book to everyone, just as I believe that one's personal religious faith ought not be proselytized to the unready or unwilling. You will have come to it on your own in order to gratefully partake in the delights contained herein. There is a treasure trove of early 20th Century French writers (many of them nowadays obscure) of which Raymond Radiguet is but one sharply sparkling diamond, waiting to be discovered by anyone attracted to good literature and poetry. Many, many American authors have been influenced by the French, and Wallace Fowlie's "Guide" is sort of a treasure map.

This little lavender Pushkin Press edition of "Count d'Orgel" is well done, having been printed on good, solid paper stock and containing a brief memoir by Radiguet's "mentor" Jean Cocteau. On the opening page there is a Seurat painting of a ghostly cat against a dark background, setting the tone of intrigue for the novel. The dust-jacket illustration contains an obscure "mood" painting by Duncan Ward which corresponds nicely to Radiguet's last words uttered to Cocteau: "There is a colour that moves and people are hidden in that colour." Cocteau asks if he'd like these "people" sent away. Radiguet responds, "You cannot send them away as you cannot see the colour."

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The why's and what-if's of scientific inquiry constitute the core of science fiction, the purpose of which is to further explore these questions from every imaginable angle. Gregory L. Zentz affirms this connection between science and fiction, showing how integral a grasp of the theoretical and practical sciences is to an understanding of science fiction. Zentz provides a holistic, rather than a literary or a sociological analysis, thereby focussing on the genre of science fiction as a reflection of scientific and philosophical paradigms, both past and present. By outlining the history of science fiction literature from the ancients to the present, Zentz parallels the changes in its scope and vision with the progress of scientific research and discovery. Central to the text is the rapidly shifting and increasingly intricate nature of modern scientific knowledge and how difficult it is for science fiction writers to incorporate that knowledge into their works. These problems are addressed, and possible solutions are suggested. Jupiter's Ghost is an excellent resource for teachers and students of science fiction as well as devoted science fiction readers interested in exploring the conceptual framework in which the genre is grounded.

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I nominate Munro for the Nobel Prize
provides great perspectives to the perplexities of everyday

The Moons of Jupiter (King Penguin)
Alice Munro
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140065474

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I nominate Munro for the Nobel Prize.......2006-10-19

I won't tell you what to look for or how to feel when you read Alice Munro. If you've never encountered her before, The Moons of Jupiter is the best place to start, early Munro at the height of her evocative powers. Don't turn to the Selected Stories first. Each of Munro's books is a suite of stories, interlocking in themes and often in characters, on the model of a sonata, a suite of musical movements. The experience of reading the whole suite is more powerful than the sum of the separate stories. Perhaps the story-suite is the successor to the floundering form of the modern novel.
By the way, Munro is admittedly a woman writng about women for women to read, but I'm an outdoors guy, a baseball fan, a weight-lifter, and at least until my son was born something of a rascal, despite all of which I rank Alice Munro very high among my favorite fiction writers.

provides great perspectives to the perplexities of everyday.......1999-03-13

In The Moons of Jupiter, Munro clearly reveals the universal perplexities of our everyday lives. The characters have a rich realness to them and must be commended for their candid honesty. The strength of this book lies in Munro's ability to create a genuine perspective in which the reader has no choice than to become emotionally connected to the characters. I enjoyed these stories because there are many "grey areas" in which the reader must rely on his own experiences to draw conclusions. There are no definative endings to these stories. They are written in such a way that there is often a fine line between hope and despondence; only the reader's morals and values can recognize one from the other.

Nautical Contraband: A Krewe of Jupiter Novel

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Jimmy Buffett meets Indiana Jones
A Fun Adventure Which Kept Turning
Don't Miss This One...
A Hot, Cool Thriller!
A southern belle's viewpoint

Nautical Contraband: A Krewe of Jupiter Novel
C. G. McDaniel
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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ASIN: 0595323391

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"There's only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle," Remy de Haviland, the old adventurer and aviator legend shares with Saint Kristopher Grant, Anthony 'Buddy Bear' Philips, and Jason Bonnet.

Three college friends reunite to find an ancient heirloom Jason's Aunt Edna hints holds the key to something much more profound.

The quirky characters and venues of Jupiter and South Florida abound, including the ex-Sea Bee computer hacker who lives in an underground bunker, the priest of a snake-handling tent revival, and the sexy crafty Cuban ex-socialite who is determined to get more out of Buddy than he gets out of her.

The friends gather the Jupiter evidence, but quickly discover they are not alone in their search. A race against the darkness ensues as they follow the signposts to the Caribbean in Saint Kristopher's antique rickety seaplane named the Lady Orleans.

Long-forgotten religions, pirate castles, and illusions of nature challenge the three in their quest to find the truth.

In the suspense filled climax, the belief in miracles becomes unanimous, as the age-old mystery of the ultimate nautical contraband is finally revealed.

For more information on Krewe of Jupiter novels visit www.krewe-of-jupiter.com.

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Jimmy Buffett meets Indiana Jones.......2005-09-29

Loved it! I'm a sucker for a good adventure yarn with rich character development. This book has both in abundance. As you can tell by the lack of words in this review I would rather read than write, but I highly recommend this book.

A Fun Adventure Which Kept Turning.......2005-07-05

A winner by C.G. McDaniel! I must say I was hooked quickly and the storyline kept me turning pages at a rapid rate! I'm more than ready for another from Mr. McDaniel and his ability to provide in-depth details of characters is excellent! A must read for those who enjoy a full-out adventure with several unexpected turns.

I'm on board and ready to join the Krewe!

Don't Miss This One..........2005-06-03

Nautical Contraband is a very well written suspensful story of three friends reuniting to locate the long lost hidden secret from an ancient story handed down through the generations.
The dialog was easy to follow, and the story line was exceptional. I highly recommend this mystery!

A Hot, Cool Thriller!.......2005-06-02

Following the Florida based adventures of Kris, Buddy and Jason is more fun than an Orlando theme park! The exotic tropical locales, pirate lore and intricate plot line make this a must read for mystery lovers. Like the famous Florida roller coaster parks, hang onto your stomach towards the end of the Nautical Contraband ride, you are in for an unforgettable reading experience! Highly recommended!!

A southern belle's viewpoint.......2004-10-20

This book is out of this world! A montage of mystery and mayhem with a southern feel, Nautical Contraband will have you begging for the next installment before the salt is gone off the rim of your glass. Keep them coming CG!

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Peligro En Jupiter
Jordi Sierra i Fabra , and V. Monreal
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