Extinction Book 1: Girl with the Golden Eyes

by Gilbert Reid

Overview

It is the year 2158.
V, the outcast vampire, and queen of the alien-human hybrids, sets off on a perilous voyage into the Great Central Desert - the desolate wasteland that was once the Heartland of America.
She wants to discover if any of her fellow alien-human hybrids have survived the Culling of all non-pure humans by the Cosmos Government.
Everywhere, the elite Cosmos - rich, militarized, highly cultured - the privileged 0.000001 % - rule the world.
The Cosmos live in domed cities, protected from the torrid climate and its superstorms, and served by robots and the lower-class Subs.
The rest of the world and the continents and oceans are an arid, storm-wracked, desolate wasteland inhabited by Burbites, Mutants, and Outlanders.
As V heads into the desert, several hundred miles away, two elite Cosmos, 14-year-old Miranda, and her mother, Niki, survivors of a plane crash, have been captured by mutants - they are about to be sacrificed, burned alive, on a flaming cross, to the Mutant Goddess, Dolly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781777314149
Publisher:	Twin Rivers Productions
Publication date:	12/24/2020
Series:	The Adventures of V , #5
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gilbert Reid is a writer of fiction, and television and radio documentaries.
He has written and broadcast widely on many subjects - including warfare, weapons technology, religion and mythology, eroticism and sexuality, and the life and death of nations.
Creator of V and the Adventures of V, Gilbert is also the author - with the late Jacqueline Park - of Son of Two Fathers, a historical novel set in the Italian Renaissance, and of two acclaimed short story collections: So This is Love: Lollipop and Other stories, and Lava and Other Stories.
For thirty years, Gilbert lived, studied, and worked in Europe.
For six years, he taught English and 19th and early 20th century English Literature - from Jane Austen to James Joyce - at the University of Messina in Sicily, to wonderful groups of students from Sicily and Calabria.
For two years, Gilbert was press attaché at the Canadian Embassy to Italy.
For eleven years, he was Director of the Canadian Cultural Center in Rome, working with the infinitely talented Elena Solari.
As a journalist and book reviewer, Reid has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Globe and Mail, Il Tempo, and many other publications.
As an informal script doctor and script developer, he worked in Rome with personalities such as the inventor of the spaghetti western, Sergio Leone, the Italian star Marcello Mastroianni, and, in Toronto, with Canada's eccentric virtuoso filmmaker Don Owen.
For almost a decade, Reid worked in public relations in Italy with numerous cultural and film festivals - in Taormina, Sorrento-Naples, Spoleto, Venice, and others.
He served as a diplomat in Ottawa, London, and Rome.
He worked as an economist - focusing on international economic policy coordination - at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
He worked briefly as an adventure travel guide for the French company Nouvelles Frontières in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
He worked as a Canadian press attaché for two Group of Seven Economic Summits held in Venice in 1980 and 1987.
He was on the International Administrative Committee of the Biennale of Venice for many years.
And - with an Italian virtuoso of public relations, Simona Barabesi - he created, edited, and wrote for a glossy, high-quality Italian-language promotional magazine, Canada Contemporaneo.
Since returning to Canada in 1994, Gilbert has written fiction and produced and written for television and radio.
He is fluent in English, French, and Italian, and has written and broadcast in those languages.
He can get by in German and, to a limited extent, in Spanish.
Gilbert Reid has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto, a M.Sc. (Econ) in monetary economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in English literature from the University of Cambridge. He studied for two years at Birkbeck College, University of London (an unfinished Ph.D. on the French novels of Samuel Beckett). And he attended the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) as an auditeur libre, specializing in international economic and diplomatic relations.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters 

Prologue: Lost Souls 

Part One: Cosmos 

Part Two: Deadlands 

Part Three: Original Sin

Editorial Reviews

With a few brush strokes, Reid creates a whole world. It's like magic - the reader is sucked into that world, instantaneously. V swirls us into an extravaganza, a detailed, delightful, dystopic, alien, familiar future - primal, ferocious, and gratifying.

- Susan S. Senstad, author of Milk and Venom and Music for the Third Ear

Vivacious, vampish, victorious, voluptuous, vibrant, villainous ... An eternal 19-year-old, gorgeous vampire, monster-vixen named "V" - a pagan Goddess, reborn as a super-heroine beauty who lives off the blood of the bad, to rescue the souls of the good. Irresistible hijinks!

- Ed Cowen, producer, impresario, a founder of City-TV

A wild ride into adventure, fantasy, and chills, V gifted me with glimpses of arcane current and historical knowledge. Not for years have novels been as much fun and enlightening.

- Chuck Shamata, actor

Utterly engrossing, rich, dark, and deep, Gilbert Reid creates worlds within worlds of vivid, bold adventure.

- Bernice Landry, artist

Gilbert Reid's prose is so sensuous and evocative! When he takes you down unfamiliar paths, and into situations that excite suspension of disbelief, you follow him because the energy of V's personality is so witty and alluring, she charms you into the universe the author has created. Vivid, complex, wildly imaginative.

- Diana Leblanc , actor, director

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