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Novels by S. P. Perone:
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Youthanasia. iUniverse, 2009. 287 pages. Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4401-8523-6, $28.95. Softcover, ISBN 978-1-4401-8521-2, $18.95.
Youthanasia peers into America’s future and sees the approaching crisis of a top-heavy ruling class adopting bizarre measures for self-preservation. It follows a group of youths from an isolated prep school who escape mind control and discover they are victims of a secret government cabal threatening their entire generation.
These youths enter a terrifying world where their memories can not be trusted. To break free, they join a dubious underground, become entangled in government intrigue, and endure the threat of horrific psychological weapons.
Youthanasia combines fast-paced adventure, futuristic technology, youthful self-discovery, and skirmishes with the underbelly of Washington politics. It is adult fiction that explores an impending generational conflict.
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Judgment Day. iUniverse, 2006. 288 pages. Hardcover, ISBN 0-595-67884-X, $27.95. Softcover, ISBN 0-595-41261-0, $17.95.
Judgment Day portrays an alarming near future America reeling from global warming, terrorism, lost civil liberties, and a lingering Middle Eastern conflict on the brink of nuclear war...the tragic legacy of misguided governmental decisions.
This is a fast-paced political thriller that engages readers on several levels--from international power politics to a bizarre murder with mystical overtones. Religious fanaticism drives powerful characters on both sides of the world.
When a young anti-war candidate, Glenn Markley, turns against a deceitful President, his wife is murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Driven to find the real killer, Markley uncovers a bizarre White House conspiracy far exceeding his worst fears. Incredibly, a Machiavellian ploy calls for detonating bogus "Iranian" nuclear warheads in American cities, provoking a preemptive nuclear strike at Iran. Markley joins with a rogue Secret Service agent in a frantic race to prevent this senseless slaughter and the global conflagration it would ignite.
Judgment Day plays out in colorful locations around San Francisco and the California North Coast, with a backdrop set in the next decade--a world suffering the tragic consequences of governmental blunders.
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Murder Almighty. iUniverse, 2005. 326 pages. Hardcover, ISBN 0-595-67397-X, $29.95. Softcover, ISBN 0-595-36629-5, $19.95. Adobe e-book, ISBN 0-595-81057-8, $6.00.)
A vibrant pope dies unexpectedly, and centuries-old sacred rituals unfold in Rome to replace the Supreme Pontiff. Cardinals in their crimson robes converge on the Vatican from around the world.
But this papal election will be like none before.
As high-ranking cardinals clash in Rome, a deadly conspiracy unfolds inside and outside the election Conclave.
When a group of American reporters in Rome finds evidence of a plot to fix the papal election, they become targets for ruthless assassins.
But who is the chosen Heir to St. Peter? Is he complicit in this conspiracy? And who are the powerful lay advocates responsible? What is their motivation?
The reporters soon discover that high-ranking clergy have their own dangerous secrets. And supernatural forces appear to be at work.
Filled with bold religious personalities, Murder Almighty delivers thought-provoking confrontations, colorful Italian settings, and a perilous journey filled with behind-the-scenes insight to an age-old secret process.
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Einstein's Tunnel. iUniverse, 2004. 284 pages. Hardcover, 0-595-66665-5, $27.95. Softcover, ISBN 0-595-32682-X, $17.95. Adobe e-book ISBN 0-595-77487-3.)
This sequel to Crisis on Flight 101 explores an alternative time line with the world turned upside-down after World War II. As a bleak 21st century dawns, Tony Shane's alter ego is an expatriate rebel striving vainly to liberate his country from brutal fascist rulers. With a nuclear showdown looming, the rebels uncover a desperate telepathic time travel strategy conceived by Albert Einstein in 1939.
To unravel Einstein's cryptic legacy, Shane undertakes a perilous odyssey across Nazi North America - in an eleventh hour attempt to restructure the broken past and avert a gruesome future.
Providing provocative insight to a strange new world - with familiar characters in alternate time lines and surprisingly ironic political scenarios - this conclusion to the first Tony Shane trilogy should entice history buffs and science fiction mystery fans as well.
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Crisis on Flight 101. iUniverse, 2003. Softcover, 276 pages, ISBN 0-595-29525-X, $17.95. Adobe e-book, ISBN 0-595-75006-0, $6.00.
This sequel to The StarSight Project provides a gripping, thought-provoking encounter with science and politics gone mad. When mind control research for the CIA produces an unexpected telepathic twist in time, Tony Shane is propelled aboard a 1939 overnight "flying boat" to England, and finds himself battling a mysterious enemy threatening the outcome of World War II. Fateful events during the 1939 flight are paralleled by political brokering in modern times...climaxing with a shocking, fateful confrontation between a stubborn American president and the charismatic terrorist mastermind of this cataclysmic plot.
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The StarSight Project. iUniverse, 2002. Softcover, 456 pages, ISBN 0-595-24918-3, $22.95. Adobe e-book, ISBN 0-595-73891-5, $6.00.
Suspenseful futuristic thriller, where university professor Tony Shane's CIA research project draws him unexpectedly into the path of a bizarre terrorist plot threatening to rain death and destruction over the eastern United States. Shane and his lovely research associate, Sarah Stenstrom, struggle with malicious faculty members at home, and cunningly lethal terrorist agents - from San Francisco to the Italian Riviera - who would sabotage development of an artificial intelligence program that might accurately pinpoint future terrorist attacks.
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