Books with author Robert E. Bleier

Cal, a native Martian, has a grudge against the Earth. He can never land on Earth, for its gravity would kill him. And now Earth scientist want to terraform Venus to create another world for Earthlings, and exclude all Martians. Brad is the leader of Venus terraforming team. Cal's attempts to sabotage his mission leave Brad and his crew stranded on the hellish surface of Venus. The only way to save them is to start the terraformation process. The only problem is that Brad is about a kilometer under a future ocean. Seeing only by occasional lightning flashes, they must reach higher ground before the newly forming ocean engulfs them. While they battle through torrent rains, they hope two incoming comets do not destroy them. Years later some of the terraformation team travels to Alpha Centauri. There they discover the remains of an alien civilization in the most unlikely place. But their exploration is cut short as Cal reveals himself and his revenge.

Who does not dream of finding a treasure? Kelly gets to do just that. While horseback riding on her grandfather's Texas ranch, the native Californian discovers an old bottle containing Karl Steinheimer's treasure map. To find the treasure, the 13-year old has to over come several obstacles. She is strong enough to overcome the physical obstacles, but can she scale a huge emotional wall that blocks her way? The first anniversary of her father's death is approaching. He was a prominent science professor and she was destined to follow in his footsteps. Now she finds herself lost without him. She feels she has little in common with her Bible thumping mother and even less with her old fashion grandfather. Intertwined with this fictional story is the legend about Karl Steinheimer. Karl's story has been all but forgotten by history, but he really did bury a fortune in gold in the 1830's. He is torn between his love for Marie Savoy and his desire for riches and adventure.

The Finish Line is about two young men fresh out of high school. Chris is an over achiever who never fails. Jeff is always coming in second. His grades are average, he cannot get a date, and he wants so much to be like Chris. Jeff is smarter than he thinks, but he is sadly lacking in self confidence. The two boys ran cross-country together in high school. Chris was the Texas State Champion. Jeff barely qualified. A billionaire hunter, George C. Clinton, is bored. He wants to find the perfect game. Something that will give him the thrill of the hunt. He learns about Chris and Jeff and he invites the boys to his West Texas ranch. He wanted a challenging hunt, and he is about to get it.

A respected therapist, a talented teacher of philosophy, and a brilliant college student form an unlikely alliance to bring to justice the worst kind of criminal untouched by the law. The therapist needs revenge, the professor needs to right a moral wrong, and the student needs to satiate an undeniable hunger to kill. Dr. Madeline "Maddie" Rivers earned her psych degree from a prestigious women's college, where she found a lifelong friend who does not know of Maddie's collusion in recent homicides. To Maddie’s chagrin, her friend marries a detective on the Maine State Police, who is investigating the apparent serial killings in cooperation with the FBI. The professor, suffering from fugue states, becomes one of Maddie's clients, and falls in love with her, in spite of learning of her role in the serial murders in New England. He is able to rationalize and justify that her behavior transcends accepted moral norms. Stanley Rabinowitz, one of the professor’s students, is referred to Dr. Rivers by his teacher to treat what Stanley says is his obsessive compulsive disorder. Dr. Rivers quickly determines he is not suffering from OCD alone. She identifies and understands Stanley's pain because, like him, she, too, is a survivor of child abuse. Her final diagnosis is that Stanley is a psychopath with lesser disorders and susceptible to manipulation. This could lead to her finally finding justice by the assassination known pedophiles…through a willing instrument under her control.

"Taramis, queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place. She lay staring into the darkness, wondering why the candles in their golden candelabra had gone out. A flecking of stars marked a gold-barred casement that lent no illumination to the interior of the chamber. But as Taramis lay there, she became aware of a spot of radiance glowing in the darkness before her. She watched, puzzled. It grew and its intensity deepened as it expanded, a widening disk of lurid light hovering against the dark velvet hangings of the opposite wall. . ."

Cal, a native Martian, has a grudge against the Earth. He can never land on Earth, for its gravity would kill him. And now Earth scientist want to terraform Venus to create another world for Earthlings, and exclude all Martians. Brad is the leader of Venus terraforming team. CalÕs attempts to sabotage his mission leave Brad and his crew stranded on the hellish surface of Venus. The only way to save them is to start the terraformation process. The only problem is that Brad is about a kilometer under a future ocean. Seeing only by occasional lightning flashes, they must reach higher ground before the newly forming ocean engulfs them. While they battle through torrent rains, they hope two incoming comets donÕt destroy them. Years later some of the terraformation team travels to Alpha Centauri. There they discover the remains of an alien civilization in the most unlikely place. But their exploration is cut short as Cal reveals himself and his revenge.

The king of Vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold–domed chamber where Bunda Chand struggled on the velvet–cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold–worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine. But his veins stood out like blue cords on his temples, and his eyes dilated with the nearness of death. Trembling slave–girls knelt at the foot of the dais, and leaning down to him, watching him with passionate intensity, was his sister, the Devi Yasmina. With her was the wazam, a noble grown old in the royal court.

The cliffs rose sheer from the jungle, towering ramparts of stone that glinted jade–blue and dull crimson in the rising sun, and curved away and away to east and west above the waving emerald ocean of fronds and leaves. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid rock in which bits of quartz winked dazzlingly in the sunlight. But the man who was working his tedious way upward was already halfway to the top. He came of a race of hillmen, accustomed to scaling forbidding crags, and he was a man of unusual strength and agility. His only garment was a pair of short red silk breeks, and his sandals were slung to his back, out of his way, as were his sword and dagger.

The Finish Line is about two young men fresh out of high school. Chris is an over achiever who never fails. Jeff is always coming in second. His grades are average, he cannot get a date, and he wants so much to be like Chris. Jeff is smarter than he thinks, but he is sadly lacking in self confidence. The two boys ran cross-country together in high school. Chris was the Texas State Champion. Jeff barely qualified. A billionaire hunter, George C. Clinton, is bored. He wants to find the perfect game. Something that will give him the thrill of the hunt. He learns about Chris and Jeff and he invites the boys to his West Texas ranch. He wanted a challenging hunt, and he is about to get it.

Cal, a native Martian, has a grudge against the Earth. He can never land on Earth, for its gravity would kill him. And now Earth scientist want to terraform Venus to create another world for Earthlings, and exclude all Martians. Brad is the leader of Venus terraforming team. CalÕs attempts to sabotage his mission leave Brad and his crew stranded on the hellish surface of Venus. The only way to save them is to start the terraformation process. The only problem is that Brad is about a kilometer under a future ocean. Seeing only by occasional lightning flashes, they must reach higher ground before the newly forming ocean engulfs them. While they battle through torrent rains, they hope two incoming comets donÕt destroy them. Years later some of the terraformation team travels to Alpha Centauri. There they discover the remains of an alien civilization in the most unlikely place. But their exploration is cut short as Cal reveals himself and his revenge.