2084 - Beaugarde, Derek
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In the years leading up to 2084, seven separate men and women across the globe find themselves battling with their own personal frailties and human tragedies. Two young Scottish scientists stumble across rogue comet Schenkler HMM2 entering the Kuiper Belt, inadvertently captured by an Israeli astrophysicist, which threatens to destroy planet Earth. They share their hacked findings with a Times journalist friend and soon find themselves targeted by US and UK government authorities. Add to the mix a NASA Space Commander returning from Mars to discover his marriage is in tatters, his NASA…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In the years leading up to 2084, seven separate men and women across the globe find themselves battling with their own personal frailties and human tragedies. Two young Scottish scientists stumble across rogue comet Schenkler HMM2 entering the Kuiper Belt, inadvertently captured by an Israeli astrophysicist, which threatens to destroy planet Earth. They share their hacked findings with a Times journalist friend and soon find themselves targeted by US and UK government authorities. Add to the mix a NASA Space Commander returning from Mars to discover his marriage is in tatters, his NASA controller friend, an alcoholic, being drawn into the murder investigation of his wife, and a Jewish geneticist who requires to upscale her DNA fertilisation and embryology programme. Suddenly, the seven find themselves drawn together in order to fight for survival against the ultimate global disaster - Armageddon! This is their compelling story and mankind's ultimate destiny.
Autorenporträt
Derek Beaugarde is the sci-fi pseudonym for author John McGee. John McGee was born in the model railway village of Corkerhill, Glasgow in 1956 and he studied at Allan Glen's School for boys from 1968-73. The actor and author Sir Dirk Bogarde also went to Allan Glen's in the 1930s and the pen name is a homage to this great British actor. The story behind 2084 The End of Days is based on some autobiographical and family history anecdotes then fictionalised by setting it within an Armageddon-genre fictional action thriller. Five men and two women who are struggling with their daily lives are thrown together to face their ultimate battle - the survival of mankind. John McGee also publishes under the sports history pseudonym of Derek Niven and in this 50th anniversary year he has published Pride of the Lions. Fifty years after Celtic FC won the European Cup, the first British side to do so, on 25 May 1967 in the Estadio Nacionale in Lisbon, Pride of the Lions sets out to tell the family history of the 16 Bhoys who became immortalised on that balmy evening in Portugal. It tells the history of the men and women who made the Lisbon Lions and takes the legend of the 30 miles from Parkhead and takes the reader on a 3,000 mile journey across history and the story of Scotland's greatest sporting achievement. Derek Niven has also published the sequel in the 'Pride' series called Pride of the Jocks the untold story of the men and women who made the greatest Scottish football managers. Discover the family histories of the 16 greatest Scottish football managers from the point of view of the men and women who made them. Tales of poverty to great riches and amazing footballing achievements.