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The Wildcat's Victory
The Wildcat's Victory
The Wildcat's Victory
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The Wildcat's Victory is the fourth novel in the Iskander series of alternate world/SF adventures that feature the strong female storm-crow Gisel Matah, a security agent for the castaway Iskanders on the alternate Earth called Gaia.

She is now twenty-one and Iskander's top special operations agent, the security officer for Iskander's vital trans-shipment port Skrona as well as their operations manager for the new Iskander-Felger Partnership in company with Yohan Felger, her husband. As they take passage to Lubitz in the Swift, the Partnership's new steam packet, an agent of hers is murdered on board. She now accepts two new tasks; acting as gum-shoe to solve the crime, as well as leading a cavalry battalion to war. No explicit sex, suitable for teenage and adult readers.

The Iskander series were originally published in Canada by Double Dragon and the rights for all five novels have reverted to the author.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXinXii
Release dateApr 1, 2006
ISBN9780991847037
The Wildcat's Victory
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Christopher Hoare

I am retired and live with my wife, Shirley, and the shelter dog Emmie, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, writing fiction and working with others on their fiction, as much as life allows. As a lad I lived, breathed, and dreamed aeroplanes; I won a place at RAE Farnborough learning to engineer them. But the reality didn’t fit my dream, so I took off into a stint in the army and then away to join the oil circus. Flying objects are tools when they now appear in my writing―I guess that’s the effect of maturity, but I hope, not a constricted, resigned, and unimaginative maturity. The mind still soars, even without wings, and the dream of carrying others to a better future is now on the page.Some readers comment that none of my stories take place next door to the lives most people live; the less charitable find similarity in characters who tend to be stubborn, independent, and out of step with the world’s expectations. Perhaps there’s a connection between the worlds I portray in fiction, and my working life in oil exploration in the Libyan Desert, the Canadian Arctic, and the mountains and forests of Western Canada.My stories have been set in Regency England, Anglo-Saxon Britain, in modern industrial projects, in the alternate world of Gaia, and the fantasy world of Rast. Sometimes I satirize jobs I’ve done. Many of my central characters are smart, beautiful, and dangerous women who lead unwilling males to fulfil the duties before them. Lt. Gisel Matah in “Deadly Enterprise” is perhaps the most Bond-like of these. I like writing novels about realities my readers can enjoy in the guise of dashing adventurers; loyal comrades; lovers; or pledged sovereigns. I hope they find there the spark that brings them to realize greater dreams of their own.

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