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Secret of the Flaming Ring & The Secret Martians
Secret of the Flaming Ring The Secret Martians Author:Rog Phillips, Jack Sharkey Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, ?Secret of the Flaming Ring? is a staggering mystery deep within Venus, by Rog Phillips. Venus was a dreary planet, with nothing much to offer other than dense jungle. Earth had implemented only limited colonizati... more »on there, with a scant number of settlements sprinkled about the planet?s cloud-shrouded surface. The rest of the globe was choked with jungle growth, pockmarked here and there with the remains of some departed civilization?or so it seemed. Joe Grimm was one of the lucky few who?d actually found success on Venus. Joe was the owner of a thriving casino and had settled into an easy life. But then one day Diana walked into his life, an exotic dancer whose charm caught Joe?s eye and pulled at his heartstrings. But no matter how he sliced it, Joe Grimm knew there was something profoundly different about Diana. And with her sudden disappearance one night, Joe found himself falling into a web of interplanetary mystery involving an ancient conflict, a super weapon, and a chance to gain the secret of immortality. The second novel is ?The Secret Martians? by well known sci-fi author, Jack Sharkey. Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight?even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System?s greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from a spaceship in mid-space, he found out that even his quick mind needed time to pierce the maze of out-of-this-world double-dealing. For Jery had become a walking bomb, and when he set himself off, it would be the end of the whole puzzle of THE SECRET MARTIANS?with Jery as the first to go!« less