Intrepid - Revelations

Who was Jack the Ripper?
Did Hitler commit suicide, or did he survive the war?
Who really shot JFK?
And did O.J. Simpson really do it?  



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28 January 2018.  Post-Obama, Colonel Lance Tucker is Commander of the next generation X-33 space shuttle Intrepid. Its latest mission to the International Space Station ends in calamity and tragedy, when a meteor shower strikes.

General Jack Nelson orders Lance to use a secret flying saucer at Area 51, to travel back in time and change history.  An imprisoned alien navigator offers assistance in exchange for his freedom, but a slip of the tongue diverts the journey to 1888 London, 1945 Berlin, 1963 Dallas, and 1994 Los Angeles.

En route to try and save the ISS, Lance cannot resist the challenge of solving the greatest mysteries of the modern world.  Who was really Jack the Ripper?  Did Hitler commit suicide, or did he somehow escape the wrath of the Allies?  Who really shot President John F. Kennedy?  And did O.J. Simpson really do it?

But as Lance closes on the space station, does the alien navigator have a secret agenda?  The shocking revelations continue to the very end....

Which Jack the Ripper suspect had a very questionable alibi for the murder of Mary Kelly?
Why did the Ripper suddenly stop killing?

What did America want most, at the end of the Second World War?

Lee Harvey Oswald aside, which JFK assassination suspect had a very questionable alibi?

And O.J. Simpson aside, who else had the motive and means to kill, together with a suspect alibi?

My meet with OJ trial judge Lance Ito

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Other books in the 'Intrepid' series;

‘Intrepid’ (2010). Time travel.
‘Intrepid - The Two Storms’ (2011). Time travel, murder mystery.

'Intrepid - Revelations' can easily be read in isolation, but it'll help just a little bit if you've read the previous novels in the series, especially regarding the background of the characters (particularly the fisherman). 

And coming soon;
‘Intrepid - Regression’ (2013). Time travel, historical fiction.
‘Intrepid - Requiem’ (2014). Space opera.

The premise for the novel 'Intrepid - The Two Storms'.

I finished the novel 'Intrepid - The Two Storms' in 2011. It's a sequel to 'Intrepid' (completed 2010), and is the second in a series of four novels. It took nine months to write. Two weeks of research were required, beyond that undertaken for the first novel.

The basis of the story is time travel, but two-thirds of the action takes place on Earth, so the book should appeal to both science fiction and action adventure fans;

Post-Obama, US Air Force Colonel Lance Tucker prepares to take his crew on a flight to the International Space Station, aboard the new generation X-33 space shuttle Intrepid. The New Cold War of the era has abated, as a direct result of Intrepid's previous mission. The Russian Buran shuttle project, which was cancelled by Boris Yeltsin in 1993, has quietly resurfaced in recent years, and the first red orbiter is ready to go. Having proposed that Buran's inaugural flight should be a dual launch beside Intrepid, the Russian President sits beside the American President on the grandstand at Cape Canaveral, eagerly awaiting the simultaneous lift-off.

Notorious international assassin 'The Chinaman' strikes in the seconds before launch, gunning down both leaders, causing a geo-political storm. And as the shuttles ascend to the ISS, an underwater volcanic eruption causes local superheating of the Atlantic Ocean, transforming weakening Hurricane Ernie into the fiercest super-storm ever recorded. The hurricane tears an immense tranche of destruction, stretching from Miami to New Orleans, costing billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of lives.

During a video conference aboard the ISS, and mindful of Intrepid's previous mission, General Jack Nelson implores the Intrepid and Buran shuttles to use a large, installable fuel source attached to the space station, and travel back in time to change history. With hindsight, capturing and unmasking the assassin should prove simple, and the General also outlines an incredible plan to harmlessly destroy Hurricane Ernie at sea, using a secret large neutron bomb housed in a B-2 stealth bomber at Area 51. If one shuttle doesn't make it past the hazardous journey through time, the surviving crew can provide the advance warning needed....

Lance faces the following obstacles along the way;

The American and Russian crews - they don't believe the plans to change history can work....

Hurricane Ernie - if the voyage back in time is successful, Lance must fly the B-2 into the eye of the storm, and unleash the bomb....

The Chinaman - who is the assassin? How does he know Lance's restricted cell phone number, and every movement? A gripping game of cat and mouse ensues, as Lance attempts to unmask the killer. 'Whodunnit?' - the clues are there, but can you work it out....?

Leading Senator Darrell McKay - having escaped The Chinaman's bullet once, he's very helpful. But Lance's line of questioning on his sinister Head of Security Vivian Kort is met with a frosty reception. Has Lance seen Viv Kort, somewhere before....?

New Orleans street gang, the Pontchartrain Pirates - the most dangerous gang in the notorious Ninth Ward of New Orleans have assisted The Chinaman. Then the mother of Lance's youngest crew member is molested by a gang associate. Lance resolves to defeat the Pirates.....



And the trouble is, when you try to change the course of history, you may well make inadvertent changes, as well as the ones you intended. Just when it looks as though everything might turn out all right, Lance discovers that his actions and words have produced a terrifying conclusion, from which the only escape is the rapid solution of The Chinaman's seemingly impossible riddle - can you solve it....?

'Intrepid - The Two Storms' is available from http://steven-stone.blogspot.com/, Amazon, Smashwords, Goodreads and ebay. 83,118 words. For a review, see http://stevestonechat.blogspot.com/2011/06/martin-ince-review-of-novel-intrepid.html

Paperback - ISBN 9781461073277 £8.99=$14.49.
Electronic versions - iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, Kindle Reader, Kindle for PC, iPod Touch, Android £1.99=$3.21.
.pdf (with book covers) $1.99=£1.20. Wow! 

The novel can be read on a stand-alone basis, but reading 'Intrepid' first comes highly recommended. For more on 'Intrepid', top 100 Kindle bestseller in science fiction, military and war, see http://stevestonechat.blogspot.com/2011/06/premise-for-novel-intrepid.html

The premise for the novel 'Intrepid'.

I finished the novel 'Intrepid' in 2010. It took nine months to write, including two months of research. The basis of the story is time travel, but two-thirds of the action takes place on Earth, so the book should appeal to both science fiction and action adventure fans;

When Barack Obama became US President in 2009, it didn't take him long to announce that support for the space shuttle program would stop. NASA were scheduled to introduce the new X-33 shuttle from 2016, replacing the retired fleet, but the project was quickly suspended. More recently, however, an intention to re-commence the shuttle program using commercial funding has been announced.

The premise of 'Intrepid' is that post-Obama (assuming his re-election through to January 2017), the X-33 replacement shuttle program will be rolled out. NASA remain the only experts in the field, and even if Government funding doesn't re-commence, it's pretty obvious that any commercial funding will be used for the X-33. The design is already complete, and a scale model of the silver, black and blue craft has already been produced.

In my novel, the first X-33 shuttle is named 'Intrepid', after a famous Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in World War 2 - all of the existing shuttles are named after sailing ships. My protagonist, US Air Force Colonel and shuttle Commander Lance Tucker takes his crew on Intrepid's second flight to the International Space Station, against the backdrop of a New Cold War on the ground - post-Obama, Russia has re-commenced its excursions into Eastern Europe, following the effective occupation of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008.

An accident in space prompts a rogue Russian General to push the nuclear button, and a devastating war ensues. Feeling responsible, Lance comes up with a plan to use Intrepid to travel back in time and change history, by preventing his latest launch.  He faces the following obstacles along the way;

His crew - they don't believe the plan can work....

His conscience - there are elements of the plan that he can't tell the crew....

Hostile cosmonauts at the Russian-controlled ISS - there is a new, large, installable fuel source attached to the ISS, that Lance must acquire....

The American military - if the voyage back in time is successful, he must race against the clock to Houston Mission Control, and convince four-star General Jack Nelson to abort the launch. The General might well not believe Lance's story, and is protected by elite Army guards....

New Orleans street and biker gangs - if the voyage back in time is successful, Lance must obtain something important from the notorious Ninth Ward, before travelling on to Houston....



And the trouble is, when you try to change the course of history, you may well make inadvertent changes, as well as the ones you intended. Just when it looks as though everything might turn out all right, Lance realises that his actions and words have produced a terrifying conclusion, from which there is no apparent escape....

'Intrepid' - a top 100 Kindle bestseller in science fiction, military and war. Available from http://steven-stone.blogspot.com/, Amazon, Smashwords, Goodreads and ebay. 106,870 words.
For a review, see http://stevestonechat.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-of-novel-intrepid-by-martin-ince.html

Paperback - ISBN 9781453891797 £8.99=$14.49.
Electronic versions - iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, Kindle Reader, Kindle for PC, iPod Touch, Android £1.99=$3.21.
.pdf (with book covers) $1.99=£1.20. Wow!

For the sequel to this novel, 'Intrepid - The Two Storms', see http://stevestonechat.blogspot.com/2011/06/premise-for-novel-intrepid-two-storms.html