Stark Nova

by Chris Mark

Database editor Katherine Hunt was spending yet another beautiful Saturday afternoon stuck inside at her dead-end job in the San Francisco Bay Area. While taking a routine break, she stumbles across a mysterious stranger and winds up entangled in an electrifying adventure of intergalactic spies and very odd coffee, the bizarre outcome of which may very well determine the fate of the universe...

353 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2013

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Reviews

[Yvette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommended as an antidote to stress or worry, Stark Nova is a pure adventure, with recognizable characters, that can be appreciated by any reader. One of my favorite aspects of the book was the way plots and subplots seemed easily anticipated, but at the very moment I thought, “I know where this is going,” Chris Mark took his cue to introduce highly amusing surprises.

Initially reluctant to leave present day earth, Katherine, an Oakland office temp, gets dragged along on Galactic Spy, Stark Nova’s latest mission. Their one-step-ahead of the bad guys course takes them to space stations, alien planets, and asteroids, where - you guessed it - they battle bad guys to stop them from ending the universe.

[Ricky Kimsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

James Bond Of Space

This blends space opera with James Bond like spying. Because of the humorous nature of the story it kind of reminds me of the sillier moments in the James Bond film franchise during the Roger Moore period.