I would like to give away ten free eCopies of
Falling Star. Please indicate on this thread by February 15, 2011, if you would like to have an eCopy of
Falling Star. I will send all respondents a Private Message with a three-digit number. I will then randomly select ten three-digit numbers using
Random.Org to select the winners.
Because Kindle does not have a way for me to give out coupons, the eCopies will be from Smashwords, which has an mobi format as one of its choices. I hope that winners of eCopies of Falling Star will write reviews of the book for the Kindle (and other platforms such as Smashwords and Nook as well).
Alan Caruba, a Charter Member of the National Book Critics Circle, had this to say about
Falling Star:
It is rare when a novelist makes his debut with as powerful a novel as Philip Chen’s Falling Star ($15.25, available from Amazon.com, softcover and on Kindle). It begins in 1967 and concludes in the Oval Office in 1993. In between Chen introduces you to an array of characters, all of whom have unique talents, some of whom are U.S. Navy officers, some with the FBI, all devoted to the protection of their nation. They are a handful of people who know about mysterious entities far beneath the surface of the waters surrounding the U.S. Others are members of a rogue KGB unit, moles who lived among us, but whose mission ended when the former Soviet Union collapsed. This novel stands out for the way you are introduced not just to the characters, but the physical reality in which they live, the sights and even the smells. Slowly and then with increasing intensity, the mysteries are unraveled, the enemies identified, as life and death often hangs in the balance. Drawing on his own life as an ocean research engineer, attorney and banker, Chen brings an authenticity to the novel that provides a heart-pounding reality that forces you to ask “What if?” What if Earth was under observation by those from another planet that is circling a dying sun? What if they intended to colonize it? What if the year for this was 2013? If you read just one novel in 2011, make it Falling Star.
http://bookviewsbyalancaruba.blogspot.com/
Thank you,
Phil Chen