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Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters edit
- Frank Shelby: A nerdish lawyer who has long forgotten his teenage fighting classes, Frank will have to re-learn some wartime survival techniques pretty quickly if he wants to save his friends and prove he's not guilty of murder.
- Kathleen Baker: Frank Shelby's mysterious girlfriend
- Max Doherty: Frank's old boxing coach and a war veteran.
- Barney Douggan: A burly cab driver and war veteran, Barney is over possessive of his beautiful and clever daughter, Maggie.
- Maggie Douggan: Barney's daughter and a Memoria secretary, she is the kind of smart and courageous girl every man dreams of meeting.
- Ed Freeman: A police detective and Frank's first interrogator.
- Bud Jessup: Chief of the NY police and Ed Freeman's friend.
- Russell Jefferson Clayney: A member of Congress and Honorary Chairman of Memoria's board of directors.
- Joe Binelli: Memoria's chief executive
- Kirk Dickens: A nasty piece of work
- Anna Gautier: The head of the Presiding Council of Migrant Camps that fights for the migrants' rights, she's not called a Steel Lady for nothing.
- John Baker: Father of Kathleen Baker and creator of the Memoria technology
- Oprah: A woman in the migrant's camp who helps Frank, Max, and Maggie while they attempt to meet with the camp's leaders.
- Sam: Add a description of this character.
- Gizbo
- Tom Nelson
- Mrs. Fletcher
- Salem
- Mike
- William Bow
- Lynda Nelson
- Nicholas Floyd
- Archer
- Hopper
- Jacque Bellville
- Lionel Batford
- Serge Gillan
- Melanie
- Russell Jefferson Claney
- Georgie
- James Shelby
- Mark Posner
- Misha
- Wong
- Boris Neumann
- Wladas Chabrov
Setting & Locations edit
Organizations edit
- Memoria Corporation: Apparently intent on bringing happiness and prosperity to post-apocalyptic Americans, they don't disclose their more mercenary - and deadly - plans.
- The Presiding Council of Migrant Camps: Headed by the iron-willed Anna Gautier, the Presiding Council fights to regain human rights for the migrants - the side that has lost the new apocalyptic Civil War.
First Sentence edit
Frank didn't like the cab the moment he saw it.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter One. Who? When? What For?
Chapter Two. The Men in Black
Chapter Three. The Letter from the Dead
Chapter Four. One Against All
Chapter Five. Nowhere to Run
Chapter Six. The Mentor
Chapter Seven. It's a Small World
Chapter Eight. The Expert's Lodgings
Chapter Nine. A Pattern Starts to Form
Chapter Ten. The Vaccination Project
Chapter Eleven. Underdogs Bite
Chapter Twelve. Code Red
Chapter Thirteen. Rappelling into Hell
Chapter Fourteen. The Tape
Chapter Fifteen. Questions Without Answers
Chapter Sixteen. The Migrants' Camp
Chapter Seventeen. No Justice
Chapter Eighteen. The Bent Cop
Chapter Nineteen. Personality Correction
Chapter Twenty. Things Fall into Place
Chapter Twenty-One. Chasing Tails
Chapter Twenty-Two. The Murderous Friend
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Final Combat
Epilogue. The Lull Before the Storm
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alex Bobl (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Vladimir Manyukhin (Artist)
- Irene W. Galaktionova (Translator)
- Neil P. Woodhead (Editor)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Russian
Publisher: Astrel, Moscow
Country: Russian
Publication Date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-5-271-41085-7
Page Count: 235
Publisher: Astrel, Moscow
Country: Russian
Publication Date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-5-271-41085-7
Page Count: 235
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Add the suggested reading level for this book.PG-13: Contains a few fighting scenes
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Adventure
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › High Tech
- Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Technothrillers
- Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › Hard-Boiled
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political
Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Obviously Incredible: Alex Bobl's personal blog where he speaks about his writing, his other books and life in general.
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