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136pp., 6" x 9" trade size paperback
cover by Jade
paperback -$13.95; ebook - $4.95
COVER NOTES
Jarrat and Stone are back ... unexpectedly and outrageously ... and a whole lot of fun and thrills are being had by all! We have the best NARC front cover art done to date, a bookmark offered at half-price for the first four weeks after this Slim launches ... and the book is shipping NOW. It's done, finished, and waiting for you to click 'add to cart,' on this same page!
Downtime becomes an explosive excursion into an industrial hell-zone...
With the Scorpio syndicate closed down, Kevin Jarrat and Jerry Stone are on furlough, aboard the starclipper Pacifica and headed for an island resort in Rethan’s tropics.
But when the clipper suffers engine trouble and must detour to the halfway station of Sheckley for repairs, the vacation dissolves into unexpected and unpredictable hazard.
Stone is fascinated to take the ‘ten cent tour’ and experience the ‘gas can with lights’ where Jarrat spent his youth. The tour turns deadly when they run into escapees from Scorpio who recognize Jarrat as his undercover persona of Max Tyler, and the NARC captains find themselves making a flight right into Hades.
Cut off from NARC, the carrier, backup and weapons, they’re on their own devices, surviving on their wits, and making it to that island resort starts to look like an impossible fantasy.
A Pocket-sized NARC page-turner, falling between SCORPIO and APHELION; we're designated it 'NARC #3.5!'
Pullquote:
Mel Keegan’s name is a byword for thrilling gay adventure in the past, present and future — MILLIVRES on Aquamarine.
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Reviewed by 'Black Raven 666'
one word for it ... fantastic ... but i could say a whole lot more! ... how Mel keegan does it beats me the stories seem to HAPPEN by themselves. (you know how when you read some books the plots seem to be pushed along?? any plot by mr keegan that i can think of seems to go along like something like lava or a stream of water following gravity - it just happens and takes you along for the ride. [STOPOVER] is great also because it lets us see some of the bg of the characters such as where they come from and how they grew up. seeing Shekley (i know i'm spelling that wrong, sorry, i don't have the book with me right now) makes me wonder HOW jarrat ever grew up at all - a lot of kids would of jacked it in and done angel ... shows us how strong jarrat is to survive. can't wait now for SCORPIO - hope it won't be long!!
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Reviewed by JEFF
This was the first NARC book I read (got the eBook, just couldn't resist, at the price: how could you), and am hooked. I know I'm reading the backstory first,
but I think that it will actually enrich the experience when I get ahold on the others. Am waiting for them right now (time of post: 4-24-08)
because the good folk at DreamCraft tell me they're bringing out a range of all the eBooks in the right format for my Pocket PC. So I'll be waiting a few
days or weeks, whatever, because I have the ppc in the briefcase on the train five days a week (yeh, I work in an office downtown. How boring is that?).
But I want to get in here and tell people, if they're thinking of starting on the NARC books, and they want to get to know the characters intimately
(and I do mean intimately!!) before the panic starts ... you can do a hulluve lot worse than 'risk' five bucks and get this one first. Wow factor: 110%.
[Thanks, Jeff: we appreciate the recommendation! To say 'thanks,' we'll send you the Microsoft Reader version of DEATH'S HEAD UNABRIDGED,
as soon as it's out ... and it's due at the end of April '08. At this time, 90% of the eBook conversions are done, throughout the whole Keegan list, and
we're waiting on some software to upload the online store. Thanks for bearing with us! -ED]