Halley's Comet, scheduled for 1986, has already subtly affected such Earth people of the '80s as Effert Broadsword, corporate rebel, Wavy Rufus, senile visionary cometologist, and three mysterious pilgrims traveling through time

The Further Adventures of Haley's Comet

Literature & Fiction

BATCHELOR, John Calvin

United States

St Martins Pr

Temporarily transferring power to the vice president while on disability in the year 2003, President Ted Jay is shocked when the vice president refuses to relinquish command five months later, an action that threatens to tear the nation in two. Reprint.

Father's Day: A Novel

The birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

Dial

American Falls: A Novel

This apocalyptic novel of the Civil War chronicles the clash of two agents of the rival Secret Services--John Oliphant and Union Captain Amaziah Butter--like brothers in their love of the country they serve and in their determination to do their duty

Contemporary

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Recounts the shocking true story of a group of wealthy young men from Los Angeles who bonded together as investment partners but wound up as murder conspirators

The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet (Norton Paperback)

In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern picaresque chase across our contemporary moral landscape

Gordon Liddy Is My Muse

Linden Pub

Spy writer Tip Paine comes to the rescue of a neighbor who is being blackmailed by Seoul gangsters and becomes enmeshed in an Asian money war with global implications

Walking the Cat, by Tommy "Tip" Paine: Gordon Liddy is My Muse, II: A Novel (ADA Companion)

Linden Press

A collection of Wilde's witty utterances, covering a wide variety of subjects. These include gossip: "There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about and that is not being talked about" and the Pope: "I was deeply impressed, and my walking stick showed signs of budding".

Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living

McNeer, Craig

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

John Calvin Batchelor's Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing is a triumphant return to the epic grandeur of his earlier novels The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica and American Falls. Eight years in the making and based on long-rumored accounts of a Soviet manned mission to the moon launched prior to Apollo II, it takes on nothing less than the titanic contest of the Cold War, the never-to-be-repeated heroics of the sixties' space race, and the hopelessly tragic history of the Soviet Union. Peter is an orphan, the only son of Apollon Nevsky, the greatest air ace of the Second World War. As he begins his story, it is 1968, the eve of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It is also the homestretch of the moon race, and Peter is freshly arrived at Starry Town (Russia's Houston Manned Space Center), a cosmonaut candidate who dreams of claiming the glowing white orb of the moon for Mother Russia. Exuberant, patriotic, loyal, he is nonetheless haunted by his patrimony. His father is one of the vanished, a hero of heroes slaughtered for his heroism by Stalin's henchmen. And now he is being watched - by the Chekhist thugs who dominate every aspect of Russian life and by a mysterious and powerful woman whose role in his life is darker and more deadly than he can yet know. At Starry Town, Peter falls under the influence of his three "uncles," known as the Martian Troika - his father's three bravest wingmen during the war. They are the heart, soul, and passion of the Russian space program. Peter's idols, they are ruthless men, though certainly no less ruthless than the forces pitched on all sides against them. Like Ishmael aboard mad Ahab's Pequod, Peter is both witness to and willing participant in the tragic and momentous events of the next year - culminating in his uncles' indomitable, doomed quest for the moon. Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing is a story of Russia in our time. Peter tells us of betrayal, fratricide, the paradox of fate. But he also tells us, in eloquent prose on an opulent scale that spans from the white nights of Leningrad to the deep winter of Siberia, from the steppe to the seas of the moon, what happens when men of great vision stare down the tyrants in pursuit of a dream.

Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing: A Novel

Henry Holt Co.

In 2003, a Constitutional crisis threatens to destroy the American political system as a disabled president and his vice-president--armed with a Twenty-fifth Amendment that allows a White House takeover in the event of presidential inability--compete for ultimate power. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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The Further Adventures of Haley's Comet

Father's Day: A Novel

The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

American Falls: A Novel

The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet (Norton Paperback)

Gordon Liddy Is My Muse

Walking the Cat, by Tommy "Tip" Paine: Gordon Liddy is My Muse, II: A Novel (ADA Companion)

Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living

Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing: A Novel

Father's Day: A Novel