Books with author John Wain

What’s going on at Splinter Island?Suzette Breahnam needs to know. Her father manages the newest nuclear generating plant in the world, and something’s wrong. Suzette’s already mystified after stumbling on a previously undiscovered race of intelligent beings. That race is the Crrry, and they live unseen and unknown to humans in aquaria throughout the world. Not only are they intelligent, but they are also telepathic. It’s the Crrry who warn her of the danger, a strange, frog-like thing squatting in The Plant’s water reservoir. Adding to Suzette’s burden is her desire to help her older brother. A car crash two years ago left him paralyzed. Suze believes the Crrry can help Tommy return to normal. When she introduces Tommy to the world of the Crrry, his normal life becomes an even greater burden. She and Tommy face the Crrry’s ancient enemy, the Rssssh, alongside their aquatic allies and Tommy takes immense joy from the physical abilities imparted by the Crrry. But when the Frog becomes a mysterious threat to The Plant, and her father suffers a strange injury, could how she responds make a life or death difference?

Excerpt from Living in the Present: A NovelBut this time, I wanted to go further. I wanted to plunge my hero into a mess and get him out again by the time the story ended. Before writing the first word, I drew up a skeleton plot which showed his progress from rejection of life to acceptance of it. I decided exactly what lessons he was going to learn and in what manner he should learn them.This, skeleton has not survived, but it can be reconstructed very fully by anyone who reads the book. Edgar Banks is first shown in a mood of despair and disillusion in which he is willing to throw his life away. Since he still has a lingering wish to be of service in his generation, he decides that he can best do so by murdering the most offensive person he knows; having no need to fear the death penalty, he can regard himself simply as an executioner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.