The Miraculous Mark Malone

by Don Barrett

Overview

An immortal alien civilization, ten million years ahead of humankind, traverses the galaxy in search of intelligent life. On approaching contemporary Earth, they decide to test the human population by giving one person the power to work miracles. Will it be used for good or evil? The randomly selected human is hapless Mark Malone, an Everyman in a thoroughly boring job, working for a miserable boss.

He must discover the power on his own and does so through an hilarious series of miraculous events. Mark Malone is secretly in love with a beautiful executive assistant, Shari Hanson, who finds him amusing, but not the upwardly mobile man of her dreams. That’s all about to change.

Soon he is the most powerful man on Earth. This gets the attention of the United States Government, which considers him a threat to the national security. Soon the War of the Miracles erupts. Although Malone's intentions were always honorable, the ability to work miracles is too much for one slightly flawed human being. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012284723
Publisher:	Publish America
Publication date:	02/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	192 KB

About the Author

Don Barrett was born in Hollywood, California. For more than three decades he wrote, produced and directed for film, television and home video. His first project was working on the Academy Award Winning Documentary, "Scared Straight" After leaving Pyramid Films, Barrett moved to Dick Clark Productions. Starting as a researcher, he moved his way up the ladder to Segment Producer, Producer and President of Dick Clark Media Archives.

Beginning in 1985 Barrett began writing, producing and directing films and videos for the burgeoning home video market. His titles won many awards including "Patrick Stewart narrates The Planets" (Hubble Award), "From Here to Infinity" (Best Video of the Year - TV Guide and Billboard Magazine), "The Floating World" AFI Award, and
a citation for his film, "The Voyager Odyssey" as the "6th Greatest Documentary Ever Made" by the Editors of Entertainment Weekly (Time-Warner).

Barrett has written two books with a third on the way: "A Day Without a Yesterday", "The Miraculous Mark Malone" and "The Red Sands of Cydonia". He currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and serves on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Homelessness Project.

Editorial Reviews

This book combines a science fiction with fantasy and a great romantic subplot. When most people are asked what they would do if they had the power to work miracles, they'll say eliminate disease,cure the sick, make the old young again and so on, however, they almost always forget about the law of unintended consequences, and how they might be affected by a power they think they control, but which gradually takes control of them. An addictive read, the makings of a terrific big time movie!

Starcastle 2011