The Menace of the Ancient Foe (A Tale of Two Times)

In the first volume of A Tale of Two Times, The Menace of the Ancient Foe, after a few adventures, such as taming the Fontana Few motorcycle gang and finding Soviet Atomic bombs stashed on American soil, Rhoda Knox unexpectedly encounters the Ancient Foe at the biologists' costume party in a stone cabin in Southern California. Rhoda and the god exchange hostile words over some very old, unfinished family business between her Clan and the god Sunderer's Circle. Their altercation causes the party to break up in a panic. Seeing the drastic course she must take, Rhoda strides out of the confusion she has precipitated, leaving Yohanna Okubo to handle the aftermath: The blow intended by the Ancient Foe to turn Rhoda into a Shade or destroy her, falls upon Isabel Tavares, a Portuguese mathematician studying at New City University. With the aid of Leo, Antonia and Hans, Yohanna succeeds in rescuing Isabel at the last moment. For days, the five huddle in Antonia's house during a Pacific storm, while Yohanna seeks, by drawing the others into the Clan's world, to hide them from death or capture by the Foes's agents. (121,000 words)

About the Author

JBS Palmer lives with family and a hoodwink of cats in Idaho. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and has a PhD in biology from the University of Oregon. Retiring from a career in science and industry before the turn of the century he brings the insight of long experience into the yet to be critically acclaimed semi-historical saga, A Tale of Two Times, a tale to delight, bewilder and redeem. A Tale of Two Times is being released in nine tantalizing volumes. He also has written two books of mind-stretching Thought Verse which speaks in the Venn intersection of supernatural religion, philosophy and science. Old Wine and New New Wine was published in 2022 and The Spiritual Thing will be released in March of this year.The author's portrait is by Mari and the cover is by Mariel, both talented young women.

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