Bøger af Rock Deperno

Hattie Bleu Holliday, a Louisiana bayou girl, was born into poverty. At eleven years old her wayward mother and drunkard father moved to Detroit. The child is brought along, almost as an afterthought. Hattie is deserted, abandoned, left alone to freeze in the brutal northern winter. She is taken in and raised by the madam of a whorehouse and her brother an ex pro boxer. She is survival's child. Hidden from the authorities she becomes two children. Hattie going to school from the house she now lives in with non-existing parents and a girl named Bleu who lives in a small room next to the kitchen in the whorehouse across the street. At 17, she is the hall monitor, checking the rooms, keeping the times and moving the customers out when their time is up. Her face is always covered and a blackjack is always in her back pocket. At 22, with the help of the huge black bouncer, she runs the top two floors and no one gets any extra time with the girls. Eventually, fighting to save one of the girls, she put a knife into a mobster's chest and makes herself and the whorehouse number ONE on the mobs hit list. Now a brutal killer has all the girls and the whorehouse in his site but his main target is a girl with yellow hair. The Chief of police can't control the situation within the legal means the law allows but he has another weapon, one he only uses in extreme cases. Once again the Chief asks the "The man that no one can see," for a favor. And now when Bleu, "The Girl with the Yellow Hair" walks the street the "Ghost" is not far behind.

Read the speculative sci-fi of the year. Fascinating in the extreme, Link redefines the eternal debate and whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist LINK will question your beliefs an offer a different solution. 'The Infinite Universe' A concept which forced Albert Einstein to admit to the probable existence of an intellect far greater than man's. 'Evolution' A concept as defined by Darwin, as a genetic or natural selective adaptation to the physical environment. Did humankind descend from a single alien parent as part of an almost, comical philosophical experiment? Why did Darwin only consider animals when the next step upward would have shown man is the only creature possessing an obviously unacceptable and unproven form of evolution? Man is the only life form to have evolved intellectually for absolutely no biological reason, whatsoever. For millions of years the water planet, a lethargic, stagnant world inhabited by slow-witted reptilian giants, had existed. Its continuance was no longer acceptable. In order to achieve a more acceptable result the reptiles were removed and a new world of mammals was built. Now life was abundant and food plentiful but evolutionary change was still insignificant and intellectual progress impossible. A radical experiment is conceived. The genes of a primate are biological linked to a completely different species. The outcome displays signs of success but the resulting ape clings, with an uncommon persistence, to the violent traits of the initial beast that dropped from the trees. Then through a bizarre act of murder and revenge, one of the original creators is lost. One million years later, the body of a strange giant is found in the western mountains by a young female archaeologist. The woman, pursued by government agents and others searching to discover her hidden secret, turns to the old local priest, the only person left whom she trusts. The giant awakens and his judgment is different from anything anyone expects.

Two young brothers witness the brutal assault of their mother. She retaliates and their father lies dead in a pool of blood. For the boys, years of psychiatric treatment follows. The oldest becomes the leader of a violent gang. When he is forced to flee the city, other gangs hunt the youngest. He is caught and savagely beaten. In the hospital he has only one visitor, his teacher, a Catholic nun. He is a solitary boy, who spends his lunch hours sitting against the church wall in the Catholic schoolyard listening to strange voices that leak through the bricks. He realizes he must never be caught again. He learns how to hide, how not to be seen and how to disappear. He also learns to answer the voices. Two years later, he learns how to kill. The judge and the prosecutor reach a deal and the authorities escort the eighteen year old to the Marine Base in Georgia. He is deployed to Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh as a sniper. The young marine has a special talent which no one can comprehend. When he doesn't wish to be seen, he isn't. The forest has changed, death stalks the hills and the Viet Cong are terrified. A legendary ghost has returned from the past to kill the soldiers from the north. Years later a mob killing leaves one witness, a Catholic nun. She is marked for death. The police and the FBI try to protect her but a maniac follows. The chase leads from Detroit to the Black Hills. The arresting sergeant, of a young boy years ago, asks for help from the only man who can save the nun because he knows this isn't any nun. This nun was the only friend of the Ghost of Khe Sanh.