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Overview

** NEW RE-EDITED VERSION (08/30/2011) **

It was the 1930s. The avarice of the elite had plunged the country into the Great Depression. Class warfare was being waged, and someone was about to snap!

Young Betty McDougal discovered how hard life could be when her family was evicted from their farm and forced to live in a Citadel City shelter. They struggled to survive. It was a time of desperation, sin, mistakes and lessons Betty didn't want to learn. Her life felt pointless until a mysterious stranger delivered her ...
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Overview

** NEW RE-EDITED VERSION (08/30/2011) **

It was the 1930s. The avarice of the elite had plunged the country into the Great Depression. Class warfare was being waged, and someone was about to snap!

Young Betty McDougal discovered how hard life could be when her family was evicted from their farm and forced to live in a Citadel City shelter. They struggled to survive. It was a time of desperation, sin, mistakes and lessons Betty didn't want to learn. Her life felt pointless until a mysterious stranger delivered her an ominous black car. It transformed her.

Pandora Driver was the relentless avenger of the common man sifting right from wrong in a realm where the villains were the local gentry and the heroes were outlaws. Pandora was a mistress of disguise who used sly audacity and an unstoppable Car-of-Tomorrow to unleash chaos into the halls of wealth and power. She infiltrated the unscrupulous rulers of Citadel City and adopted their unsavory methods to usurp them. Her fight was the fight of the ages. She was the fist of the people battling greed, graft, inequality, and exploitation. Her time was in the past, but the problems were the same blights facing society today.

She intervened when law enforcement or the justice system failed citizens. Sometimes her methods were unsettling. Battling sin in the filth where it resides can dirty even the purest hearts. The good old days we remember in monochrome were lived in color. In a time when good and evil was simply black and white, Pandora lived in the gray area.

Pandora Driver: The Origin, summons the spirits of pulps past into a retro-hero tale for mature readers.

It ain't Shakespeare. It's pure Pulp!

Editorial Reviews

Anthony Stevens
Raw noire excitement and flavor!
...a tale of Betsy, a young woman tested at every turn and apparently doomed. Detailed, vivid action sequences are balanced with bitter sweet episodes of torment and degradation. Through it all, our realistically portrayed heroine never surrenders...
...snappy graphic at each chapter heading add to the flavor of this interesting volume. There are scenes in Pandora Driver that will make you want to cheer. I'm looking forward to a sequel.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013572638
  • Publisher: John Picha
  • Publication date: 3/17/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 922,753
  • File size: 1 MB

Meet the Author

John Picha was born on St. Patrick's Day 1968 in Joliet, Illinois. He was raised in Frankfort, a suburb of Chicago, but his mind always seemed to be elsewhere. The little midwesterner was captivated by comics books, cartoons and animation, mythology and all things imagined. He made the world around him more exciting by pretending. A bicycle was a spacecraft, a bush became a dinosaur, and, of course, there was always a bath towel hidden away for a quick change into a super hero.

If you’d like to learn more about John or to see his other work, you can visit him on the web.

www.takejohn.com
www.youtube.com/johnpicha

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  • Posted August 14, 2011

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    A female action hero in a pulpy, radio drama in book form

    Pandora Driver harkens back to the days of radio dramas and pulpy comic book heroes. If you are familiar with the aesthetic or genre of dieselpunk, than this is probably right up your alley.

    The innocent Betty evolves throughout the story into a sexy, depression-era crime fighter bent on succeeding where a broken and corrupt system of justice is failing. Along the way she encounters the need for several alias and is forced to learn to compartmentalize her life.

    The emotional and social undertones/subtext creates an interesting complexity as she wrestles with finding the best way to navigate her surroundings and still accomplish her dreams.

    This book does contain a considerable amount of type-os that have evaded editing, so if that sort of thing raises your hackles than you might find this read frustrating. And I found part one of this book to start slowly. But after reading into part two the story picked up considerably.

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  • Posted August 9, 2011

    A classic noir tale for a modern age.

    Anyone who appreciates classic noir heroes like Batman, The Shadow, or Rorschach from the Watchmen will love this book. It pits a meaningful heroine against society's great evils in a way that is  poignant, and eerily familiar to us in these modern times. Easy to read, yet remarkably insightful. I hope for a sequel, well done!

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