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About the author:
B.B. Irvine was born in New York City in 1959. He graduated from the High School of Music and Art N.Y. (1976 music), New York State University at Stony Brook (1980 B.A. liberal arts), and in 1982 received a certificate as a Physician Assistant from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. He has worked in settings including emergency medicine, AIDS research, and addiction treatment in New York City where he lives. In 1994 he earned a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do from Grandmaster Richard Chun. His novels and screenplays evidence his knowledge of people and frequently weave medicine, science, history, romance, and martial arts into the action.
Contact/comments:
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The Anna and Caitlin Adventures
Silk In A Firesuit
Pulled from a fiery crash, race car driver Dr. Anna Korsova falls for her rescuer, Deputy Sheriff Caitlin Shea. When Caitlin later joins Anna’s new stock car team as security director, she soon finds herself drawn to Anna as well.
Racing Hearts
After being kidnapped, ex-deputy sheriff Caitlin Shea fights to save both her life and Anna Korsova’s, the woman she loves, from a man obsessed with killing Anna.
Love At Many Speeds
Moving to a new Indy Type car team, driver Anna Korsova also faces two rivals: Patti York on the race track for a first win, and Sarka Sandbourne at home, where the British starlet is researching a film role by spending time with Caitlin Shea while Anna’s on the road.
The Ghosts of Fireworks Point [2015]
Anna Korsova finds herself oddly distracted by her homelife (her desire to have a baby) and while at work driving by her driving teammate, “Curves Of Steel” Patti York. Caitlin Shea finds hersef distracted by Shea family ghosts from the Civil War.
Romance/Mystery/Action/Suspense/Horror:
Knife Hand Strike
After his Tae Kwon Do teacher becomes a serial murder suspect, Doctor Andy Bosch joins the legal team and lawyer Jenna Gates to find the real killer. Suspense, romance, and a confrontation with a deadly fighter result.
Russia Del Sol
Robert Kinross wakes up in the trunk of a car in Russia on his way to a job interview that will put his life in danger as he and the people he is guiding travel from Russia, to Finland, Marseille, and then to a dangerous reception in Spain.
Just Do Me A Favor
Doing a friend a favor isn’t supposed to risk life and limb, but that’s what happens when millionaire Baxter Benton asks his old pal Leto Macellum for one. Within six hours Leto has nearly been blown up, beaten up, shot (twice), and Baxter has vanished into the Florida sunshine. Will this be a favor that costs Leto his life?
Hawkdove-Afghanistan, 11 December 2012
After a helicopter flying the highest diplomatic official in the US Government crashes during a “beyond secret” mission in eastern Afghanistan in early December 2012, Army Lt. Michelle “Hawkdove” Paris must keep her alive and out of enemy hands until they can be rescued from hostile territory.
No Choice
Shooting a man with a police woman’s gun to save her daughter’s life reveals Thorn is living in New York City. Locals seek revenge against him as others around the globe who identify Thorn want him killed for past actions against them while he served with the US military.
Thorn evades local “wannabes” looking to make names by beating him up, and then learns of more serious firepower seeking him from FBI Special Agent Bernise Cruz, who he is being investigated by. The second team is not so easily “evaded,” and between his injuries and possible forensic traces, Thorn is running out of chances.
Then a team of merciless cartel killers stalks Thorn through Fort Tryon Park and threatens the citizens of Washington Heights. (only @Amazon and Barnes & Nobles)
Shoggoth Unbound
Former Air Force Pararescue specialist Sam Oliver joins the Hobblestone-Thorpe 2012 Antarctic Expedition on the ice sheet at the base of Mount Takahe, never dreaming that within it he will encounter an absolute impossibility and be the only person to return alive and able to warn the world what has broken free.
R’Lyeh Rises [Dec 2014]
“Mayday” and “abandoning ship” are the last words heard from Clementine Prioress, the only survivor of a ship torn apart somehow, sending Sam Oliver to the South Pacific to save her. (Winter 2014)
Comedy:
Dishings at Fiasco’s
A writer recounts odd conversations and other humorous diversions he has experienced at FIASCO’S, winner of the Least Awful Gourmet Award for its “signature Italian-type food,” whatever that is. Meet owner Adolfo MacDuff, maitre’d Carmina Burana, chef Falcon Roost, and all the characters often present as they seek answers to questions like whether a vampire polar bear could turn into a bat.
A Selection from the Memoirs of Leopold LaPied [Free Book!]
Found in an old shoebox, this exercise in academic satire features the section in which an obscure medieval author travels with Geoffrey Chaucer and the pilgrims to Canterbury, as Chaucer chronicled in The Canterbury Tales. Leopold LaPied was there, although he did not make it into the Tales. Included is an afterword and commentaries.
Running AMUC
“Welcome to this opening of the Arte Museum of Unusual Crafts,” reads the press release; in fact, the museum has been open for eight months with few visitors. Will this “Opening Night” do the trick? It starts with the main show going missing, includes a killer cook in Café D’AMUC, a temperamental artist, and a local burglar hiding in the museum. Have fun, just don’t eat the crunchy cheese!
The Spacer Series
Mariposa (2173) Book 01: Ensign Chen [Free Book!]
On a survey of planet Deepstrike, 34 light years from Earth, newly promoted Space Fleet Ensign Xiu-Li Chen uses her butterfly swords and fierce determination to survive first contact with the Qet, a violent human-like alien species.
Conflict (2176) Book 02: Lieutenant Chen
Commanding her own combat rescue ship SR/T CATFISH at Van Mannen’s Star, medic Lieutenant Xiu-Li Chen finds herself leading a critical tactical combat mission at what will be known as the Battle Of Hellhole.
Darkeyes (2178) Book 03: Lieutenant Commander Chen
After a combat rescue mission crash on Jade, an Exotic Niv woman with matte black skin rescues Lieutenant Commander Xiu-Li Chen, then both are transferred to JOHN A. WHEELER, the first starship Xiu-Li served on. Later, the WHEELER needs Lieutenant Ecurba’s skills during a dangerous tactical interception at planet Deepstrike.
Victory Saved (2179) Book 04: Commander Chen
First Officer Xiu-Li Chen saves her crew on battle damaged IWG VICTORY then faces mutiny during return to Earth, while on Niv, the planet at Tau Ceti, Lieutenant Ecurba becomes a hero to the mysterious Ceti Cats and the neosapien Niv.
Phase Change (2180) Book 05: Captain Chen
Captain Xiu-Li Chen leaves her starship SAS JAGUAR to discover what happened to the missing crew on board a drifting, empty science ship. When armed raiders arrive to salvage the hulk, First Officer Ecurba must take JAGUAR into harm’s way to protect his captain.
Qet Contact (2180) Book 06
During final negotiations formalizing the Human Sphere’s entry into the Assembly Of Sentients, Captain Xiu-Li Chen saves the alien Qet leader from an assassination attempt and Commander Ecurba falls in love with the Qet-Qeta’s daughter during sanctuary on SAS JAGUAR.
Greatstar Lost (2181) Book 07: Captain Ecurba
As Captain Xiu-Li Chen settles into her role as Steward of the Human Sphere, the catastrophic destruction of a GREATSTAR ship in an attack sends SAS VICTORY and newly promoted Captain Ecurba and his wife Qet-Sia on a deep space rescue mission.
Qet Toccata (2181) Book 08
On planet Deepstrike Captain Ecurba battles a plan to imprison and control Ceti Cats in order to kill seventy eight billion Qet and d
estroy the Qet Sphere, while on Cape Of Velvet Captain Xiu-Li Chen seeks out the Niv criminal responsible.
Past, Present, and Future (2176-2194) Book 9.1
Stories include Ecurba’s rescue of 31 kids during Operation NESTKNOCK (2176), his meeting of a daughter he did not know he had (2194), the full closing of the circle between Admiral Xiu-Li Chen and Captain Priti Fareyes (2192), and Admiral Chen’s meeting with “Katsavr’s Qitten” (2194).
The Secret Navigator (2182) Book 10 [Fall 2014]
While their Qet-Qeti leader looks for a rumored artifact on Deepstrike (human population 10,000), two million Qet Simple Believer warriors start assembling nearby. Can Captains Ecurba and Chen get the Human Sphere out of this?
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