Bøger af Mike Manolakes

Frustrated by Abraham Lincoln's reluctance to approve his battle strategy in the American Civil War, General George B. McClellan takes the extraordinary step of marching his army into the nation's capital and placing the President of the United States under arrest. The U.S. Constitution is suspended and Congress is sent home.Now, ten years later, the United States are still under military rule. Despite a cease fire that has stopped the fighting between the Northern and Southern states, McClellan remains in power, and his government continues to hunt and arrest those who oppose the general's autocratic regime. Spies of the National Intelligence Service are everywhere, seeking out those who wish to restore the old democracy, and the countryside is under the thumb of a mounted military police force called the United States Gendarmerie.Sylvanus Cadwallader, correspondent for the Chicago Times, is on a personal mission. His brother-in-law, also a newspaper reporter, has disappeared without a trace, and Cadwallader suspects that he may have become a political prisoner of the commanding general's government. His hunt for the truth behind his brother-in-law's disappearance leads him into a web of secrets, intrigue, and danger. Accompanying him on his perilous quest are a disgraced former Union general named Ulysses S. Grant and a writer of unusual stories named Ambrose Bierce. Together they hope to learn the truth behind the man who has set himself up as the American Bonaparte.AMERICAN BONAPARTE is the first in a series of alternate history novels set in the timeline that is formed when George McClellan takes over the United States government. Famous names from history are used as prominent characters, their lives altered by the consequences of the changed events of the past. The story is a mix of mystery, action, and political intrigue as we explore the world of 1872 in an America that might have been. Later novels in the McClellan Regime series will revisit the alternate timeline at other points in the future as we approach our own time.

Travelers' Tales is the fifth book in The Traveler Series. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. One of these Travelers is Ruthie Terwilliger, who, despite possessing time-traveling powers beyond her understanding, is trying to create a normal life for herself, her husband Miles, and her young daughter Miranda. But she awakens one night to find herself many centuries in the future, the guest of a secret society known as the Family. As she learns the incredible secret behind the Family, she wonders if this is only a dream -- or a terrible nightmare waiting to come true? Meanwhile, her team is searching for a boy lost somewhere in time. The team succeeds in finding him -- but is he an unusual infant in a twenty-first century orphanage, or a full-grown assassin in 1914, bent on changing the history of World War One?

Living in the Future is the third book in the Traveler Series, the series which began with the book Variation Seven. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. In Living in the Future, the course of American history has been radically changed. During the height of the Civil War, an ambitious Union general has invaded Washington, DC, and placed Abraham Lincoln under arrest. It's up to Ruthie Terwilliger and her team of time travelers to travel to the past to fix America's future.

Strange Times is the sequel to Variation Seven, the book that began The Traveler Series. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. Ruthie Terwilliger is now happily married to her teammate Miles, but on a battlefield in Pennsylvania, Miles is shot and seriously wounded. Ruthie must find help to save her husband's life, and help comes from a most unexpected source -- a mysterious woman in white, someone who can apparently travel in time without the use of a timeband.

There are twelve timebands in the universe. Each timeband is a cybernetic device that gives the wearer the ability to command time. With a timeband, you can travel to the past or the future, speed time up, slow it down, or cause time to stop entirely. You have the ability to change history and create worlds that never were, both awe-inspiring and frightening. You can see the bleak destiny humanity is heading toward, or steer it toward a bright, glorious future. Ruthie McDonald was working in a Chicago diner on the day the bomb exploded. She had no idea what would happen when she took the timeband off the arm of the dead man and fastened it to her own arm. But that moment changed her life forever. Her world vanished, and a darker, scarier one took its place. For better or worse, she was now a time traveler, a member of a secret elite team responsible for the safety of the entire timeline of the world's history.