The Empress Ruby - Softcover

Philips, Brandon

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ISBN 10: 0985723033 ISBN 13: 9780985723033

Publisher: Inland Publishing, 2013

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Get ready! The U.S. Presidential election season has rolled around again! This time, though, may be the last.Election Day 2024 is fast approaching and the First Lady's glittering Royal Ball is set to take place at the White House even as the capital is beseiged by millions of people camping on the National Mall. They're planning a visit to the White House and it won't be a cordial one.A Yale professor connects a ruby stolen in the sixteenth century from a cursed Burmese temple with the collapses of the Spanish Empire, the French Empire, the Mexican Empire of Maximilian and Carlotta, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Third Reich. Will America be the next to fall?Corporal Miguel Morales, a decorated war hero and Marine Guard posted at the White House, takes on a challenging mission that will affect the fate of the nation.The U.S. is reeling under a barrage of tectonic disasters. Washington's political elites are overdue for a thorough-going purge. Class warfare--complete with torches and pitchforks-- is about to break out. A cabal of crafty oligarchs plots with the country's most popular talk-show host. Their targets: a clueless President and a First Lady under the spell of a latter-day Rasputin.See the U.S. of the future, divided as never before, and Morales under pressure, racing against time with his team to save the nation and fulfill his mission!

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About the Author

Brandon Philips is the Island of Hawaii's newest writer of action-adventure tales. His stories are inspired by the first-hand accounts of great world explorers like Lewis and Clark, Marco Polo, Captain Cook and Aurel Stein. Their encounters with people of other cultures for the first time provides the underlying material for his writing. An alumnus of the East-West Center in Honolulu, he is fluent in Mandarin and French. Over the years he has shared his love of world history and foreign languages with multitudes of students to promote better understanding between East and West. From the Italian neighborhood of Boston where he grew up, and Honolulu where he received his Master's Degree from the University of Hawaii, Philips has gone on to explore the Pacific, Asia and Europe. His writing style has been deeply influenced by an eclectic array of authors: John Grisham, David Baldacci, Sinclair Lewis,Wilbur Smith, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Ken Follett. Philips lives in Hawaii with his wife and spends time in California and New England with his extended family. Be sure to follow the protagonists of the Empress Ruby and Gold of the Khan as they confront ruthless ambition and naked power and fight to restore precious patrimonial treasures to their rightful places.

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