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TENNESSEE QUAKE

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  (The following is an excerpt, beginning on page 6) EXT. NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE LEGEND: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE INT. GOVERNOR’S OFFICE   GOVERNOR FRANK TEMPLETON is at his desk reading papers. His personal secretary, MELISSA, walks in.                    FRANK Mornin’ Melissa. Anything interesting on the schedule today?        MELISSA                 The usual boring meetings, Governor. INT. CORPORATE BOARDROOM ZACK ARMSTRONG, the youngish chairman of a Nashville record company, is about to start a board meeting. BOARD MEMBERS sit around a large oak table. Zack gets a cell phone call from TRINA. (CUTTING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ZACK and TRINA)                                  TRINA The child support check is late — again.                               ZACK I sent it.                 TRINA Well, I don’t have it, and Christal needs dental work, badly.                 ZACK I promise to look into it, but I know it’s on the way. Look, I’m in a board meeting

Crime of the Centuries

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Crime of the Centuries Type of work: Novel Genre and key words: Science fiction, time travel, Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons, dystopian future Eras and Settings: nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Germany, United States Rating: Mature Short description: In 1885, a mysterious serial killer, with multiple aliases, eludes the police in three different European countries. His victims include precocious children, miserly shopkeepers, a petty criminal, and a policeman. Swiss, German, and Austrian police want to know: Is he a disorganized madman or does he have some purpose? Who is he and where is he from? Richard Gerhard Becker turns out to have a purpose, and it is taking him on a grand, backward-forward-sideways journey through time that will link his destiny to that of one of the most hated men in modern history — Adolf Hitler. But Becker makes the mistake of joining forces with a woman whose identity is as mysterious as his own. At first attracted to her, he comes to worry