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    Tangled Web
    Tangled Web
    Tangled Web
    Ebook22 pages18 minutes

    Tangled Web

    By Kira Bacal

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    Being the right hand man of an intergalactic crime lord is not conducive to longevity. Coping with homicidal subordinates, a tetchy boss, and two new hostages is enough to spoil anyone's day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKira Bacal
    Release dateFeb 8, 2012
    ISBN9781465768407
    Tangled Web
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    Kira Bacal

    Trained as a physician and scientist, Kira Bacal has worked at NASA-Johnson Space Center and the U.S. Senate as well as with the U.S. military. She qualified in two medical specialties and has numerous professional publications in medical and scientific journals and texts. For her fiction writing, she was named the “Best Newcomer Author” in the January 2009 international Quibbler Awards and had one story win both “Best General” and “Best Chemistry” categories in the same awards. This same story, which appeared online, has enjoyed some recent popularity, with over 2,500,000 hits (and counting) from readers around the globe, primarily the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Europe, but also places from Singapore to Botswana, Saudi Arabia to Guatemala. Kira has also been a quarterfinalist in the “Writers of the Future” contest and runner up for the Higney Award at the magazine Another Realm. She currently lives in New Zealand with her children and a large, vandalism-prone Leonberger.

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