Release day has been set for this collection of stories by Glen Held. The Killer: Five Doc Talos Tales will be available on May 21st, and preorders for the book can be placed starting May 1.
There are indeed five stories in the collection, four of which have appeared in Doc Talos Magazine, and one which has been newly created for this book.
In a pre-WWI tale, Private Andy Kingman encounters Nikola Tesla at his Wardenclyffe laboratory, amid a complex web involving a mysterious double, German spies, and the notorious Tesla death ray.
In arctic Greenland in the 1930’s, John Renner must fight for the lives of a small band of scientists in the shadow of Doc’s “fortress of solitude”, against a madman who has become a human monster.
Doc’s cousin Rickie Talos impulsively investigates a gathering of serial killers, but before she can even get there, she is plunged into a life and death struggle with a brutal murderer.
A dying girl’s final dream comes true, when she journeys to New York City to visit its legendary Big Building, and a newsboy helps her meet her hero, Doc Talos.
A wild road trip for the ages, as Rickie Talos, John Renner and Andy Kingman are tasked with the delivery of a mysterious package, and on the way take part in an epic eating contest and foil a desperate theft, then run afoul of a cadre of femme fatale foreign agents.
THE KILLER: FIVE DOC TALOS TALES by Glen Held
135 pages, 6 x 9 deluxe paperback, with cover and black and white interior illustrations by R. Paul Sardanas. Foreword by Sardanas, Afterword by Held. $12 plus shipping, or $5 for PDF download.
To place your preorder for this book, please send an email to taloschronicle@gmail.com. Payment by PayPal, check or money order is accepted.
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