Icarus Aflame

By Mark J. Handwerker

ICARUS AFLAME is the first in a series of Gordian Palmer sci-fi spy thrillers. As an agent of Project Icarus, a top secret department of the Central Intelligence Agency, Palmer is sent on a mission to stop Xian, a merciless humanoid operative of the Belial star system, before the alien succeeds in helping an infamous Quuraki dictator develop the first hypersonic aerospace bomber.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark J. Handwerker
• Release date: Jun 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452461830

Mark J. Handwerker

Dr. Mark J. Handwerker loves to blow up stuff! As a science teacher for more than 25 years, he has enjoyed revealing the secrets of nature to his students by repeating experiments done by the greatest scientists of the past in his classroom. He is the author of eight science texts, and has mentored dozens of educators in "the art of teaching science." He is also an author of science fiction and hopes to share those works with young readers everywhere. Since the days of the first great science fiction author, Jules Verne, science fiction writers have not only given the general reading audience decades of entertainment, they have succeeded in inspiring professional scientists to make the impossible possible. Dr. Handwerker believes that nothing is impossible.

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