Kim Miller
Book #2 in the Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy. In #1 they saved the world from a nuclear disaster, here they save the world from a parallel universe hive mind attack.
A science fiction author is shot at by some stranger and almost immediately almost blown up with a car bomb. He goes on the run and ends up on the giant airship Tereschova with the crew. He wakes up to find a copy of himself standing in his cabin who is dying from a gunshot wound.
Ack-Ack is called to the captain's cabin where a man from the mysterious Gestalt organisation/cult wants to recruit him. He attacks the man and sends him away. And suddenly things get crazy. The author's long dead wife appears along with their 16 year old daughter who was never born because of a miscarriage. She tries to explain that his science fiction books on parallel universes etc were not fiction but a reality that was slowly shaping his unconscious mind.
And so the mayhem starts. Gestalt wants the author dead and wants Ack-Ack recruited into the hive mind cult. They kidnap K8, Ack-Ack's teenage computer hacker sidekick. An attack on Earth begins with parallel people appearing in unexpected places. And with his cigar in his mouth and a gun in each hand Ack-Ack goes on the offensive. The real surprise comes when he finds out who is leading Gestalt, until that surprise is taken over by another twist in the narrative.
It ends with Ack-Ack pulling the team together and seeing further possibilities of taking his mayhem to new places.
Book #2 in the Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy. In #1 they saved the world from a nuclear disaster, here they save the world from a parallel universe hive mind attack.
A science fiction author is shot at by some stranger and almost immediately almost blown up with a car bomb. He goes on the run and ends up on the giant airship Tereschova with the crew. He wakes up to find a copy of himself standing in his cabin who is dying from a gunshot wound.
Ack-Ack is called to the captain's cabin where a man from the mysterious Gestalt organisation/cult wants to recruit him. He attacks the man and sends him away. And suddenly things get crazy. The author's long dead wife appears along with their 16 year old daughter who was never born because of a miscarriage. She tries to explain that his science fiction books on parallel universes etc were not fiction but a reality that was slowly shaping his unconscious mind.
And so the mayhem starts. Gestalt wants the author dead and wants Ack-Ack recruited into the hive mind cult. They kidnap K8, Ack-Ack's teenage computer hacker sidekick. An attack on Earth begins with parallel people appearing in unexpected places. And with his cigar in his mouth and a gun in each hand Ack-Ack goes on the offensive. The real surprise comes when he finds out who is leading Gestalt, until that surprise is taken over by another twist in the narrative.
It ends with Ack-Ack pulling the team together and seeing further possibilities of taking his mayhem to new places.