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A Novel of Alternate History. Ex-soldier John Rolfe is back in Oakland in 1946, just returned from the Pacific War. He turns on his shortwave radio, and with a flash of light and a thunder crack of sound, he finds a portal to a parallel world, in which Europeans never came to North America. He summons his army buddies.In the 21st Century, a Fish and Game Warden finds a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead t-shirts, and a live Condor. These discoveries lead to Adrienne Wolf, and a secret that has been kept for 60 years. 440 pages, Prologue, remainder mark. Published @ $23.95.
Seller Inventory # 11906
- Title
- Conquistador
- Author
- Stockwell, John
- Publisher
- ROC, New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0451459083
- ISBN 13
- 9780451459084
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 6.25x9.25
Oakland, California, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, is about to make a fabulous discovery. It happens with a flip of his shortwave radio switch, a thunder crack of sound, and a blinding light. He blinks his eyes to discover a portal to an alternate world where Europeans have never set foot on the land he knows as America. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his discovery: his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families.
What mistakes would you repeat?
Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never anticipated: a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn't correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. These finds soon lead to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe - and a secret that's been hidden for sixty years.
As danger brews on both sides, two realities are threatened, and so too are the lives of everyone who crosses the boundary between them.
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Review
"In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?"-Publishers Weekly
"A novel of complex landscapes, both moral and geographical...Copious amounts of suspense and action." -Locus
"The moral landscapes of this novel are intriguing, and the sight of an undeveloped West Coast is unforgettable."-Scifi.com
"Even more of a romp than Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers...Its action scenes are state-of-the-art and its femmes wonderfully formidables." -Booklist
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Renaissance Books
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