Extinction Book 2: Revolt of the Angels

by Gilbert Reid

Overview

V and Cosmos warrior Kat leave the Mutant Kingdom and race across the desert towards Camp Terminus, where V is convinced her fellow alien-human hybrids are enslaved and human dissidents - and even children - are being held prisoner in horrendous conditions more than a mile underground.
Terminus is a giant ancient decrepit rare earth mine - a vast sweltering labyrinth, a sort of steampunk Dante's Inferno version of an Escher drawing.
It is policed by sadistic madmen, thugs, and petty tyrants.
In Terminus, underground, enslaved hybrids, their minds neutered, and human dissidents - including two high-spirited kids - are held in steamy, horrendous conditions.
Just before V and Kat arrive, Terminus is attacked by a deadly ghoul virus - it morphs people instantly into slobbering, libidinous, murderous ghouls.
Then, the Boy, the Prophet of Death, and his winged zombie hordes flood in, sowing fiery destruction.
Explosions and fires, floods and avalanches, sweep through the abyssal labyrinth of Terminus as V and Kat fight to rescue the enslaved hybrids and humans from an inferno of destruction.
While V faces off with the Boy, in a duel to decide the fate of the world.
If V does win her battle, and if she and Kat do save the prisoners, where can they take them in a desolate, dying, and infernal world?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781777314156
Publisher:	Twin Rivers Productions
Publication date:	12/24/2020
Series:	The Adventures of V , #6
Pages:	564
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.14(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: Whispering 

Part One: Dark Tide 

Part Two: Underworld 

Part Three: Revelation

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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