Operator B
- Author: Edward Lee
- Artist: Erik Wilson
- Page Count: 148
- Pub. Date: 1999
- ISBN: 1-881475-73-5
- Status: Out of Print
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Operator
"B" (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #7)
by Edward Lee
About the Book:
Operator "A" is dead.
In
1989, the United States Military recovered a crashed vehicle of extraterrestrial
origin.
Ten
years later, the vehicle is operational again.
Willard
Farrington, the best pilot in the world, has just committed suicide.
Why?
Air
Force General Jack Wentz will find out soon enough, but for now he has willingly
stepped into Farrington's coveted boots. What Wentz will be offered is any test
pilot's dream beyond all imagination.
And
Wentz's dream comes true. But there's a catch...
Within
the secret warrens of the Pentagon and amongst military cells unknown even to
the President and the Congress, Wentz has just been designated Operator "B".
With
his mind and his body, he will assume an unfathomable sacrifice. He will assume
the role of the best pilot on the surface of the earth.
Wentz
will give up everything: his wife, his child, and the kind of life most people
yearn for. He cuts it all loose... for this final mission and ultimate gesture
of duty.
Only
when it's too late does General Wentz realize the full price he must
pay... to become Operator "B".
Edward Lee's distant creative endeavors include more hardcore horror novels, a political thriller, a military tech thriller, a "true-life" thriller, a pop-literati abstraction for which he just won a modest grant, several horror scripts and God knows what else. His favorite horror novel is Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber; favorite short story, "Loveman's Comeback" by Ramsey Campbell; most influential author, H.P. Lovecraft.
Published in two states:
• Hardcover Limited Edition of 450 signed and numbered copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn ($30)
• Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather
and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker ($125)
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