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Net Impact Now Available
by Don and Linda Bingle on Feb.29, 2012, under Donald Bingle
Okay, so it’s been awhile since I posted and I’ve had various things published since I last posted, but the big one is that my third novel came out, a spy thriller called Net Impact. Here’s the cover and a blurb about it:
Dick Thornby is not Hollywood’s idea of a spy.
In his rough and tumble
job there are no tailored Italian suits, no bimbos eager to please, and no
massive underground fortresses built by evil overlords seeking world
domination—just an endless series of sinister threats to the safety and security
of the billions of mundane citizens of the planet. Sure, Dick’s tough and he
knows a few tricks to help him get out of a tight spot, even if his boss accuses
him of over-reliance on an abundance of explosives. But he’s also got a
mortgage, a wife upset by his frequent absences on “business” trips, and an
increasingly alienated teen-age son who spends way too much time playing in
gaming worlds on the computer.
When a mission to bust up an arms exchange
in New Zealand goes spectacularly bad, ending with the showy destruction of the
Dunedin port facility, Dick is thrown into a maze of conflict involving Hong
Kong arms dealers, cyber-criminals, Chinese government goons attempting to
suppress computer access by dissidents, and even militant Maoris seeking rocket
launchers to shoot down tourist-laden jumbo jets. Then a young computer expert
back at the Philadelphia headquarters for The Subsidiary, an international
espionage agency created in the aftermath of 9/11, discovers that the bad guys
are involved in a vast conspiracy. Dick is forced to partner with the espionage
neophyte to battle evil on multiple fronts, leading to a final confrontation
that incorporates real-world conspiracy theories and cutting-edge
technology.
In the end, Dick can save his partner, save his marriage,
save his son, or save the world, but he can’t do it all.
Net Impact is available as a soft cover trade paperback and as an eBook on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks. Tell your friends!
Three More Stories, Then Three More
by Don and Linda Bingle on Feb.04, 2011, under Donald Bingle, Donald Bingle Family
This winter has been a busy time for anthology stories. Following up close on the heels of my story, “Foggy Goggles,” in Steampunk’d in November, came my story “F Isn’t for Freefall” in Love and Rockets (fair warning: adult themes in a kind of “Are you a turtle?” sort of way) in early December, then “Means to an End” in Blue Kingdoms: Mages and Magic on December 31, and finally “Rural Route” in Boondocks Fantasy in early January. At least three more stories should be coming down the pike in the coming year: “Dashed Hopes” in Hot and Steamy (steampunk romance); “Solitary Life” in Crimson Pact, and “Day of the Shadows” in an anthology yet-to-be-named of new stories by panelists for the GenCon Writers Symposium.
Foggy Goggles
by Don and Linda Bingle on Aug.10, 2010, under Donald Bingle, Donald Bingle Family
Yep, I’ve got another story coming out. This one is called “Foggy Goggles” and it appears in Steampunk’d, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg.
Steampunk is a science fiction niche that imagines that the future had occurred sooner, or to put it another way, that the tech of today had all been invented in the 19th Century and was powered by steam. Wild, Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are among the movies that are often cited as being steampunky. Certainly the collectible card game, Doomtown, and it’s rpg game companion, Deadlands, have steampunk elements, with a heavy dose of horror.
Anyhow, here is a picture of the cover:
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