The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
Behind Distant Stars
β Scribed by David Reiss
- Publisher
- Atian Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
His reputation had been secure.
He was the world's most feared supervillain!
But then he saved the world...
News cameras had captured every moment of the battle in which Doctor Fid single-handedly averted an alien invasion. As details emerge, the public discovers how close the Earth had come to inescapable subjugation...or to complete annihilation.
In the aftermath, there are many who wonder if the veteran supervillain has changed his ways. There are many who think that Doctor Fid may not be a monster after all.
Notoriety is important to many of Doctor Fid's long-term plans to punish the unworthy, and this shift in public perception threatens to undermine decades' worth of effort...But it also presents a tempting opportunity.
New dangers arise, and through it all Doctor Fid must struggle to decide what role he will play. Can the notorious supervillain set aside his endless quest? Can Doctor Fid become the hero that the world needs?
Or will he remain the villain that the world's heroes deserve?
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