The Alexandrite: A Time Travel Noir - Softcover

Rick Lenz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984844252 ISBN 13: 9780984844258

Publisher: Chromodroid Press, 2018

Synopsis

How many lives does Jack have to blow before getting it right? And is sleeping with Marilyn Monroe worth getting murdered again?When Jack Cade is fired from a no-pay production of Hamlet, he has no inkling his next role will be opposite Marilyn Monroe--forty years back in time, in 1956. As a down-and-out aging actor, Jack's luck and life change when he's anonymously sent a pawn ticket for an alexandrite ring. After his wife leaves him, a mysterious woman asks him to meet her at an old mansion deep in the San Fernando Valley. With nothing to lose, Jack decides to go. Once he steps through her door, he enters a world of beguiling physics and plain old magic to travel through time. Through a dark, glitzy whirlwind of events, Jack meets Marilyn, gets killed more than once, and emerges with the jewel that changes his destiny. He discovers the answers to all his life-and-death questions within the constantly shifting colors of the alexandrite.

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About the Author

I've spent the greatest part of my life as a writer and actor. Most of the acting was to make a living and raise my family. I have been a writer longer than I'm comfortable saying. I do it because it gives me joy, whether it's playwriting, or in the last dozen years, writing books. Like a lot of people, I'm told, I threw away my first attempts at books—maybe two or three medium length novels. I hope readers come away from my stories knowing something they didn't know before, having been entertained, and wishing it didn't have to come to an end.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Chromodroid Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984844252
• ISBN 13: 9780984844258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234