New Kindle Game - Choice of the Vampire

Choice of the Vampire ($2.99), a text-based adventure game by Choice of Games, is a new Active Content game in the Kindle store. I'm tempted by this one (but would like to see a review or two, first).

Book Description
Choice of the Vampire is a text-based game where your choices control the story.

Play as a newly created vampire, struggling to survive your first nights of immortality. Begin your two-hundred-year journey as a vampire in New Orleans of 1815, and choose whether to seek love, power, or redemption as you negotiate the growing pains of the young Republic.

Throughout the game you'll choose between a set of options which decide the action your vampire will take next. Will you embroil yourself in the intrigues of elder vampires? Can an undead creature find true love? How will you balance your waning humanity against your thirst for blood?

If you love gamebooks, you'll love Choice of the Vampire. Its unique approach to interactive fiction allows larger, deeper, and richer stories than traditional gamebooks. Will you discover all of the hidden endings?

Please note: Choice of the Vampire contains content that may be inappropriate for children.

New Kindle Game - Scripps Spelling Bee: Word Games

Scripps Spelling Bee: Word Games ($2.99), by THQ, is a new Active Content game in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Scripps Spelling Bee on Kindle offers three word games: Word Search, Honeycomb Hunt and Mystery Bee.

In Word Search, the game displays a word box with words hidden among a grid of letters. The round is completed once you've found all the words or 10 minutes have passed.

Honeycomb Hunt is a word scramble game. You are given a list of words and a grid of hexagon blocks containing letters. The object of the game is to rotate clusters of letters until all the words on the list are found. The trick is that you must move letters by rotating them without disturbing a word you had previously created.

Mystery Bee is a hangman-style game. For each wrong guess, a body part is filled in on a picture of a bee. If you need them, you can get clues such as the definition of the word, or word's origin.

Scripps Spelling Bee can be used to learn new words in 4 different levels of difficulty, and Spelling Bee can also help you learn your own word lists. Just type your study words into a word list and you can use those words in the games.

Scripps Spelling Bee will help make it fun to learn new words or to study your personal word lists. Get it today so you can truly "Bee" a champion!

New Kindle Game - Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling for Kids

Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling for Kids ($1.99), by Digi Ronin Games, is a new Active Content game in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling for Kids uses flash cards to help children study the alphabet and practice the spelling of 76 US English words. Children can review words that are new to them, practice with multiple-choice options, or fill in answers directly.

The title has two different play modes, each designed for a different level of basic proficiency. The first mode focuses on early learners, and shows an image and asks the child to identify the first letter of the object shown. The second mode is more challenging; it displays an image and asks the child to spell out the name of the object shown.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately. A high score table lists the ten highest scores to help track improvement.

Turn your Kindle into an alphabet and spelling learning tool today!

Last Chance Bargain Books

This will likely be the last day of bargain prices on these young adult/teen books, which have already started going back up in other stores.

Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball ($1.99), by Risa Green

Book Description
In a world where nothing is certain, a little magic couldn’t hurt…right?

When Erin Channing’s favorite aunt dies, Erin is bequeathed a pink crystal ball and a set of weird instructions. Granted, Aunt Kiki (aka Aunt Kooky) always lived “outside the box.” But now Erin and her two best friends are convinced that the pink crystal ball holds the key to their future—or at least the key to getting dates…

Consider Your Fate to Be Sealed . . .

• Absolute knowledge is not unlimited; let the planets be your guide to the number.
• There are sixteen ways to die, but four of them you will never see.
• The future belongs to you alone. Other voices will be disappointed.
• One rotation is as far as you can see. Only uncertainty lies beyond.

Summer of Skinny Dipping ($1.79), by Amanda Howells

Book Description
Sometimes I still wake up shivering in the early hours of the morning, drowning in dreams of being out there in the ocean that summer, of looking up at the moon and feeling as invisible and free as a fish. But I’m jumping ahead, and to tell the story right I have to go back to the very beginning. To a place called Indigo Beach. To a boy with pale skin that glowed against the dark waves. To the start of something neither of us could have predicted, and which would mark us forever, making everything that came after and before seem like it belonged to another life.

My name is Mia Gordon: I was sixteen years old, and I remember everything.

Picture the Dead ($1.79), by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown

Book Description
A ghost will find his way home.

Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiancé falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, but is haunted by a mysterious figure that refuses to let her bury the past.

When Jennie forms an unlikely alliance with a spirit photographer, she begins to uncover secrets about the man she thought she loved. With her sanity on edge and her life in the balance, can Jennie expose the chilling truth before someone-or something-stops her?

Against the brutal, vivid backdrop of the American Civil War, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown have created a spellbinding mystery where the living cannot always be trusted and death is not always the end.

Dreaming Anastasia ($1.99), by Joy Preble, was free at the end of January and has been $1.99 since, but should be going back up in price next month.

Book Description
What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?

Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead.

In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn't know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good college—until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman. The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreams…

iDrakula ($1.99), by Bekka Black, may require you to do some research, if you are not a big texter (then again, so does reading Shakespeare in the original).

Book Description
The classic vampire story that started it all gets new life for a generation of connected teens

18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of the disease. The teenagers discover a horrifying truth: the Count is a vampire. The harrowing events unfold through emails, text messages, web pages, Twitter feeds, and instant messaging—the natural modernization of Bram Stoker’s original Dracula, which was written in letters, diary entries, and news clippings.

Gawain and Lady Green ($1.79), by Anne Eliot Crompton

Book Description
“You love me, Lady Green. Even as I love you.”

Gwyneth wasn’t supposed to fall in love with Gawain. Not like this. Gawain was the May King—a sacrifice offered to the Goddess for a bountiful harvest in return. Gwyneth knows this. His fate has been decided by powers beyond her control. But the warmth of his touch and the taste of his lips have blurred the lines of what she knows to be true. Now Gwyneth is willing to risk everything to keep Gawain alive, even if it means losing him forever...

In truth, in very truth, I do…

Happy Memorial Day

If you aren't out on the water (or the beach), you may want to check out a few of the Memorial Day sales going on.

• Kobo doesn't really have a sale, but they do have their $1 off, unlimited use coupon code back in force. Use may27us1, expires 5/30/11.
• Carina Press has a 99 cent sale going on, HERE, for the first in series titles. They also have a number of titles at Kobo for $2.39 and you can use the coupon code above, dropping the prices to $1.39.
• Fictionwise has a 45% off coupon that is still working, 052711. Their new books for the week have been posted and you get 15% off up front, plus the coupon code. Remember that all their books that are not "multiformat" do have DRM and are not Kindle compatible; this week it looks like most DRM'd Romance and several genres in DRM-Free formats have been added.
• A number of indie writers have put together a Blog Tour de Troops and are giving away a free copy of their book to anyone who comments and for each commenter, another free copy to be donated to troops overseas. The first day's tour starts HERE, the second day HERE, the third day HERE and day four (the last), HERE. Even though it is Monday, you can leave a comment on any (or all) of the blogs involved and get both a free book and an entry into a drawing to win a free Kindle.

Free Book (EPUB) - Manual For Living

Manual For Living: Reality - TIME ($0.99 Kindle), by Seth David Chernoff, is free from Borders and Kobo this morning. This is a single-chapter freebie (much like the business shorts from FT Press), with the full collection of Manual For Living titles going for $4.99 (Kindle/Kobo) to $7.99 (B&N). This appears to be self-published, but the publisher is listed as Spirit Scope Publishing. If you do decide to pick up the full title from Kobo, be sure to use the coupon code may27us1 to get $1 off (unlimited use, expires 5/30/11). In fact, using the coupon code, you can buy each of the individual mini-books that make up the whole, at no cost (each is 99 cents and with the coupon code they are free).

Book Description
Award-winning book by two-cancer survivor! TIME, the FREE SAMPLE BOOK. A genuine user's guide to the meaning of life, the award-winning Manual For Living: Reality will change the way you see the world. Its straightforward guidance and practical wisdom will help you remain true to your path and purpose in life. Find True Fulfillment and Lasting Happiness, Overcome Your Fear Of Death, Learn How to Fully Experience Life, Reconnect with Your Inner Truth, and Discover Your True Purpose.

Click HERE to get the book from Borders (you'll probably have to use the desktop app on this one).
Click HERE to get the book from Kobo.

Free Book (EPUB) - Traveling Light

Traveling Light ($8.54 Kindle), by Max Lucado, is free from ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Thomas Nelson. This title has been free in various ebookstores earlier this month (although not on Kindle), but is back to full price in those stores.

Book Description
Weary travelers. You’ve seen them—everything they own crammed into their luggage. Staggering through terminals and hotel lobbies with overstuffed suitcases, trunks, duffels and backpacks.

Backs ache. Feet burn. Eyelids droop.

We’ve all seen people like that.

At times, we are people like that—if not with our physical luggage, then at least with our spiritual load.

We all lug loads we were never intended to carry. Fear. Worry. Discontent.

No wonder we get so weary. We’re worn out from carrying that excess baggage. Wouldn’t it be nice to lose some of those bags?

That’s the invitation of Max Lucado. With the twenty-third Psalm as our guide, let’s release some of the burdens we were never intended to bear.

Click HERE for the free book from ChristianBook.

Spend $5 on Kindle Singles and get a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card

This offer is for those with the Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G with Special Offers only (presumably; if anyone out there has the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, can you check your offer page and see if this one is there? I may have to buy one, if the offers are different). View the Special Offers on your Kindle (Menu, Special Offers) and you should see a new promotion (if you don't, turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then after the sync has completed, go to the Special Offers screen):

Spend $5 on Kindle Singles and get a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on June 2.

You'll get an email (right away), with a link to Kindle Singles page. However, there are no promotional codes to enter, you just have to click to have the offer sent to your email (for this particular offer, I'm not sure that you even need to do that, but I would, just in case). Then, purchase Kindle Singles adding up to at least $5 between March 29 (today) and June 15 (midnight PT). The $5 gift card will automatically be applied to your account sometime in the month after that (no later than July 15). Full details are here.

I already know the first single I'm going to get: Bittman's Kitchen: What I Grill and Why ($1.99), by Mark Bittman. I've already looked at the sample and was considering buying it, so this deal means I really only have to purchase an additional $3.01 in Kindle Singles to get the gift card.

With the way most singles are priced, that essentially means I have to buy two more at $1.99, since I would end up five pennies short if I bought a $0.99 Single and one at $1.99 (or three at $0.99). Without finding one that ends in .49, you'll actually have to spend $5.95 to get the $5 gift certificate, with this particular deal. So, if you were considering buying a few (or find a few over the next month that interest you), this deal lowers their price. It doesn't, though, give you a 100% return on the money spent (or more, as the first American Express deal did).

Free Book Bonanza ... in German (EPUB)

For those who can read in German (or are, perhaps, taking or considering it as a language in college), there is a bonanza of free books from Borders this morning. These also seem to be free from Kobo, but I could not get a purchase to actually go thru (which leads me to believe these were pricing errors and may disappear from Borders soon, as well. Keep in mind, some have had problems with Borders charging for free books, so remove your credit card info from your account before one-clicking these (and all of these will add to your account without using the desktop app). I'm just going to list the titles and authors (all linked at Borders), since there are so many (and the German is a bit butchered by the font selection at Borders, anyway).

• Rainbow's End - Inspector Jury 2, by Martha Grimes
• De Tweeling, by Tessa De Loo
• Russendisko, by Wladimir Kaminer
• The Treatment, by Mo Hayder
• The Long Road Home, by Danielle Steel
• The Tinder Box, by Minette Walters
• The Ghost, by Danielle Steel
• The Ranch, by Danielle Steel
• Phönix aus Asche: Roman, by Henning Boëtius
• Der Börsenschwindel: Wie Aktionäre und Anleger abkassiert werden, by Günter Ogger
• The Echo, by Minette Walters
• The Sky is Falling, by Sidney Sheldon
• Militärmusik: Roman, by Wladimir Kaminer
• Schönhauser Allee, by Wladimir Kaminer
• Die Söhne der Wölfin: Roman, by Tanja Kinkel
• Esa luz!, by Carlos Saura
• Sturmzeit: Roman, by Charlotte Link
• The Breaker, by Minette Walters
• The Birdman, by Mo Hayder
• The Shape of Snakes, by Minette Walters
• Driving over Lemons, by Chris Stewart

Free Book (EPUB) - Swimming

Swimming, by Enza Gandolfo, is free from Kobo and Borders this morning.

Book Description
Kate Wilks is a swimmer a teacher and a writer but she has never been a mother. She believes she has a good and satisfying life until a chance encounter with her ex-husband and his daughter. Suddenly submerged by a past overflowing with grief secrets and betrayals Kate is forced to reassess her life. Swimming is a lyrical story of one womans journey. A novel about loss and survival friendship and love creativity and fulfilment it will resonate with anyone whose life hasnt turned out as planned.

Click HERE to get the free book from Borders.
Click HERE to get the free book from Kobo.

Kindle 3 Splash Proof Case for a Penny

By combining two coupon codes, you can get an OCTOVO Tirim Splash-Proof Case, which usually sells for $24.99, for a single penny (plus S&H - $5 total). Despite the misspellings in the product name at Amazon, this one ships straight from OCTOVO; on their website, though, you'll pay the full $24.99, plus shipping. I've ordered myself one, to use at poolside or in case we get to go to the beach this year.

Description

• Made from soft touch microfiber
• Access to On/Off Button & Charging Port without removing from the case
• Clear read-through panel proving excellent protection from the elements without compromising the reading experience
• Smooth Fit & Finish with Instant access to all navigation controls/keyboard
• Stylish splash-proof case that also keeps out sand dust and dirt

Custom designed for the latest generation Amazon Kindle, this splash-proof case is a necessary accessory for your Kindle. Whether at the beach, pool or gym; in your home or on the subway; this case provides ultimate protection against accidental splashes, moisture, dirt, dust and sand. Whilst offering superior protection against the elements, users can access all controls (including the On/Off Button, Charging Port and Controller) with ease and without removing the Kindle from the case. This sleek and stylish case is made from soft touch microfiber and features a clear read-through panel. Easy use of the Kindles navigation features/keyboard is provided without compromising the reading experience. This case incorporates a perfect blend of functionality and style while snugly protecting your Kindle without adding additional weight or bulk. The Kindle is easily inserted and removed from the case via the Velcro and Lycra opening at the base of the case.

To get the best deal:

1. First, place the case into your cart using the Add to Cart button (don't one-click on this one).
2. Click on Proceed to Checkout and sign in
3. In the order summary page, enter the first promotional code, 4I7WHQR8, and click on Apply. Your total should drop to $5.99 with shipping.
4. Now, enter the second code, 8EISZG3U, and click on Apply. Your total will drop to $5.00 even.
5. Click on Place your Order.

Win a $250 Gift Card from Amazon

Be sure to head over to Amazon's Facebook page and enter their contest to win a $250 gift card. You'll need a Facebook account and need to click the Like button on their page, then enter your name, email address and a phone number to enter.

Odds of winning are low, of course, but 10 lucky people will win and the one thing they'll all have in common is that they entered the contest, which ends on 6/23/11. Full rules are available HERE.

Free Book (nook) - The Winds of Khalakovo

This week's Free Friday book from Barnes and Noble is The Winds of Khalakovo ($7.99 Kindle), by Bradley P. Beaulieu. Published by Night Shade Books, this one has over 450 pages in print (hopefully Amazon will drop the price on it over the weekend, sometime).

Book Description
Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo's eyrie stands at the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflict has erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and the fanatical Maharraht, and a wasting disease has grown rampant over the past decade. Now, Khalakovo is to play host to the Nine Dukes, a meeting which will weigh heavily upon Khalakovo's future.

When an elemental spirit attacks an incoming windship, murdering the Grand Duke and his retinue, Prince Nikandr, heir to the scepter of Khalakovo, is tasked with finding the child prodigy believed to be behind the summoning. However, Nikandr discovers that the boy is an autistic savant who may hold the key to lifting the blight that has been sweeping the islands. Can the Dukes, thirsty for revenge, be held at bay? Can Khalakovo be saved? The elusive answer drifts upon the Winds of Khalakovo...

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

Books for a Buck

Real Life & Liars with Bonus Material, by Kristina Riggle, is a 99 cent pre-order in the Kindle store. The current edition without bonus material is $9.99 (linked for sampling).

Book Description
For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age. On the weekend of their parents' anniversary party, lies will be revealed, hearts will be broken...but love will also be found. And the biggest shock may come from Mirabelle herself, because she has a secret that will change everything.

London Calling ($1.11), by James Craig, is also a pre-order, this time for a Scottish author (the odd price is no doubt caused by an exchange rate and a listing on the UK site).

Book Description
Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes which leads all the way to the top. In the middle of a General Election, a murderer is stalking the man poised to be the next Prime Minister. With power almost in his grasp, Edgar Carlton will not stand idly by while his birthright is threatened. Operating in a world where right and wrong don’t exist and the pursuit of power is everything, Carlyle has to find the killer before Carlton takes the law into his own hands.

The Widow's War ($0.99), by Sally Gunning

Book Description
Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her nearest male relative: her daughter's overbearing husband, whom Lyddie cannot abide. Lyddie decides to challenge both law and custom for control of her destiny, but she soon discovers the price of her bold "war" for personal freedom to be heartbreakingly dear.

Includes the fascinating "story behind the story" of The Widow's War, a map of colonial Brewster, and a driving tour of the village of Satucket.

Best Friends ($0.99) is a backlist title by Consuelo Saah Baehr. You'll find two of her titles at 99 cents, a Kindle single (Thinner Thighs In Thirty Years) at the same price and three additional titles under $4, making this author's backlist very affordable.

Book Description
It was unlikely they would ever meet. Yet fate brought them together first as naïve schoolgirls . . . then as complicated women facing events that would alter the shape of their lives forever.

NATALIE– betrayed by her first love and consoling herself with the richest husband in America who is both powerful and dangerous.

SARA – buried her ambitions until a blazing passion reminds her of all she has given up. Her suburban security is about to be shattered by a new job and a passionate affair.

MIRANDA – exotically beautiful, dangerously trusting and driven by her own sexuality. She is in love with a famous screenwriter whose scenario doesn’t include a wife.

Three women with little in common . . . except a pledge made when they were children when they knew nothing about what life would bring . . . a pledge they will be called upon to keep.

Drives Like a Dream ($1.24), by Porter Shreve

Book Description
Shreve’s second novel, Drives Like a Dream, is a smart, wry tale about a modern-day mother in the midst of a lifestyle crisis — and her outlandish attempts to get her family back.

Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. She hasn’t seen them together in more than a year, and now her ex-husband is about to remarry a woman half his age. And the insults keep coming: Lydia is stuck on a book she’s writing about Detroit’s car industry, which uncannily parallels her own life — out with the old model, in with the new. She's poured her soul into her family, only to be abandoned in the City of Dream Machines. But then a twist of fate introduces her to Norm, an eco-car fanatic out to remake her and the world. Is he the answer to all of her problems, or does he hold the one secret that just might get her children back to Detroit, home for good?
A warm, funny, and affecting novel that's sure to appeal to anyone who has longed for an alternate life, Drives Like a Dream confirms that sometimes when you set out for a spin, the twists and turns can be perfectly rewarding — and right.

Celebrities for Breakfast ($0.99), by Shelley Stout

Book Description
Personal shopper to the stars, Judith Collington, refuses to spend one more day in LA, answering the whiney demands of her Hollywood clientele. To escape, Judith and her seventh-grader, Shannon, give up their lucrative lifestyle to run a bed and breakfast in central Illinois. Judith prepares to purchase the property, until it changes hands in a poker game. New owner: Hollywood actor and part-time egomaniac, Ren Spencer. Judith installs Ren into the nearest guest room, where he insists on heated towels and meals on a tray. She would love to hate him, except he’s pathetic in an endearing sort of way. Oh, and did I mention he’s about to become engaged?

If you really want the latest, just read Shannon’s private computer journal. Her bedroom wall is plastered with posters of her all-time favorite star, but Shannon could care less if Ren Spencer’s a has-been at 35. He’s so hot, she can’t stop writing love stories about him. So what if Ren drinks too much and has to sober up in jail? And why can’t Shannon just have a normal mother like everybody else?

CELEBRITIES FOR BREAKFAST is a romantic comedy told through Judith’s voice, but sprinkled throughout are Shannon’s journal entries and Ren’s two cents.

Mile High Guy and Mr Right for the Night ($0.99 each), by Marisa Mackle

Mile High Guy
A romantic comedy written by a former flight attendant and number one Irish bestseller!

Mr Right for the Night
The hugely funny Number One bestselling novel from Irish author Marisa Mackle.

Anna is looking for Mr Right. For just one night. Her dreaded high school reunion is looming and she's determined to have the perfect partner to show off. She has three months to find this charming, intelligent, handsome man and is convinced he is just around the corner. But which corner?

Touchdowns And Potions ($0.99), by Markee Anderson

Book Description
Real estate agent Jenna Steele has to sell pro quarterback Andy McKnight’s huge home. She hates professional athletes. When he convinces her he does have a heart, she falls in love with the man. There’s only one problem—Jenna’s been splashed with a love potion and now men are falling at her feet. Once the potion wears off, Andy will be gone and she’ll be forced to find another job out of state to get away from the paparazzi.

*** This eBook contains bonus material at the end from Sandra Edwards' 'Crazy for You'. Approximately 243 pages in length.

Ken McClure is releasing his backlist on Kindle and Donor is bargain priced at $1.10.

Book Description
The first Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller.When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to hospital with acute renal failure, her parents are in despair. Their hope is renewed when Amanda is accepted for treatment in a pioneering, state-of-the-art dialysis unit in an exclusive private hospital in Glasgow, but behind the lavish hospital corridors, private rooms and friendly staff lies something much more sinister. Dr Dunbar goes undercover to find out in the first of Ken McClure's gripping thrillers featuring the ex-Special Forces medic.

About the Author
Ken McClure is the internationally bestselling author of medical thrillers such as Wildcard, The Gulf Conspiracy, Eye of the Raven and Past Lives. His books have been translated into over 20 languages and he has earned a reputation for meticulous research and the chilling accuracy of his predictions. McClure's work is informed by his background as an award-winning research scientist with the UK's Medical Research Council. Dr Steven Dunbar, an ex-Special Forces medic, is one of his most popular characters.