Bøger af Robin Hess

Captured by terrorists, a primitive mathematical wizard, a space ship, a mobster, destruction of a village, kidnapping! What else? She was a pre-teen, he a college sophomore. Another young lady was a vagrant, unable to talk clearly. Another, perfectly normal young woman was arrested and sent to a mental hospital for "treatment." Another young woman is a private detective, and another a union organizer. How do all these loose ends come together in the Zenith Project?

Two young girls go to Oz. One is from California. the other is from Somalia. A new Nome King tries to steal the powerful Magic Belt, but, with the help of the mysterious Spelling Bee, the two girls thwart his attempt.

In a parallel world exactly like ours, except that magic works and mythic monsters abound, John flees the Cranstons and their multi-national companies with evidence of their crimes and with an ogre on his tail. Fleeing the wrath of her wicked witch sister, Mary encounters John when he saves her from the clutches of an attacker. Joining forces, they run into a good witch who says that Mary has great witchly powers and gives her a day of basic training before they must, again escape the ogre. The two of them meet up with John's friend, Stu, and his family in their private bus. Stu has more evidence against the Cranstons. The group, now sixteen strong, finds refuge on a native American Reservation in Arizona. When Mary is attacked by vicious slaths, the ogre saves her and she finds that he has been chasing them, not to harm them, but because he had discovered the wickedness of the Cranstons and left them in order to bring to John the information that the Cranstons plan to kill both the President and the Vice-President at Labor Day parades. During the next weeks the Cranstons organize several attempts to kill John, Stu and Mary and to stymie their efforts to get legal help against the Cranstons. However, Mary completes her training as a witch and the book culminates with the struggle between the good powers and the bad on Labor Day.

A first contact story in which we find an interstellar diplomat, a beautiful "Duchess," a stuffed-shirt administrator, viscous animals armed by an enemy empire. All standard material, but it combines in a way you would not guess.