Steven Popkes – författare

Jeremy DaFoe looks human enough. He farms soybeans and corn on his small farm. His wife Betty loves him. His best friend Buddy admires him. His enemy Luke plots revenge. But Jeremy is an ancient being of incredible power trapped in Nuthatch County. His presence has shaped its body and soul for thousands of years. The people, plants, and geology revolve around him. Old resentments, historical wrongs, and past social pressures have built over the years like tectonic forces. The time has come for change.

Tom nodded. Dan was sitting close to his right. Tom reached for his glass as if he'd forgotten he'd finished it, made a fist and backhanded Dan with all his strength. Dan fell back off his chair. Tom followed up the blow with a vicious kick to Dan's groin. Dan doubled up and the breath came out of him in a faint shriek. Tom pulled open Dan's coat and found the pistol he knew was there and a small glittering knife he didn't."e;Kids."e; Tom put the barrel of the pistol against Dan's throat. "e;Where do you think Derek is?"e;"e;Trolley,"e; Dan croaked. "e;A street entrance to the underground."e;"e;Thank you."e; "e;Tell me,"e; said Dan as soon as he was able to breathe. "e;Do you know she's not your daughter?"e;"e;Yes."e; Tom hid the pistol in his jacket pocket and left the tavern. --From Tom Kelley's Ghost.

In the ruins of Saint Louis, Lucio has been a Long Bottom Boy for as long as he can remember. He has scavenged. He has been hunted for food. He has eaten his fill of human prey. He has been both the abused and the abuser. He's been okay with this.One day he sees things differently. Can he stay? Can he leave? Where can he go? Who can he trust? Is there a place for him anywhere? He does not know it but he is on his way to Smilodon Country.

The world has finally seen Lethias as the gorilla he is and it wants him gone.With zealot Melissa Adenour ascending to the Vice Presidency and the Oregon Initiative becoming law, Lethias wants only one thing: to return to the island. To return to his people. To return home. But standing in the way lies hundreds of miles of back country and a land that has decided who he is and what he deserves.As LeRoy Parkin's company, LifeWorks, where the apes were created, crumbles under legal assault and the island's location grows harder to protect, a scientist's impossible physics points toward solutions no one anticipated. The gorilla, Jefferson, has taken these field equations further than any human can follow. And a mysterious being called Arthur has been waiting—patient, enormous, purposeful—for exactly this moment.The final volume of the Brother to Jackals trilogy brings its characters to a reckoning that is by turns heartbreaking and triumphant, asking what home truly means when the world you were born into no longer wants you.Some journeys begin as exile. Some end as legend.