Paul Startzman

Many of us have visited ancient sacred sites and been moved by the numinous atmosphere to `see` the former inhabitants. Indeed, a British historical novelist recently said, `The dead of a place live on in the landscape`. It could be Stonehenge, the Pyramids or Mycenae. It could be an old site in the New World, likfe the temple in Occo at Mounds State Park, Indiana. Here, Paul Startzman uses his powerful imagination to construct a thrilling, touching story about a band of brave Athenians from 600 BC. They build and equip a special craft to take them across the terrifying western ocean and enter a mighty river system, finally reaching the lost land of Occo. Their adventures with distant cousins already settled there, their battles with...

Дата выхода: январь 2003

Espionage. Impersonation. Thrills. When Lady Stapleton from England, accompanied by son Cedric, meets her cousin Harriet at Richmond after thirty years, little does the latter know that the two are imposters. At the behest of ace detective Allan Pinkerton, alias Major E. J. Allen of the Union Army, they are on a daring spying mission behind enemy lines to collect vital secrets of a new weapon project of the confederates, under special orders from President Abraham Lincoln. Under constant surveillance by the Confederate Army and surrounded by ever-lurking danger, the spy team goes about their task with meticulous planning. Will they succeed and survive? Or will the double-dealing and the machinations get the better of them? A crackerjack,...

Дата выхода: январь 2003