Whitecoat: The Champions of 1940

by Kenneth Tam

Since 1881, Britain, Canada and the United States have been colonizing another planet. Now it's 1940, and tensions between the world's Empires are mounting because the English-speaking nations enjoy exclusive control over a uniquely powerful genetically-enhanced humans known as 'Champions'. Lady Alex Smith is the newest Champion, and her best friend Stephanie Shylock has joined the British Army so they can work together. Along with Sergeant Mike Strong, a veteran soldier with a colorful reputation, these two must follow in the footsteps of their famous parents, and save the world... perhaps both worlds.

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2012

About the author

Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Kenneth has lived all across Canada, and has driven as far east (Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador), west (Beaver Creek, Yukon), and north (Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories) as you can within the country.

He is a founding Partner with the award-winning independent Canadian publisher Iceberg Publishing, the author of more than 60 novels and novellas, and currently serves as Communications Manager for the University of Alberta’s $75-million Future Energy Systems research program.

Reviews

[Karen Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Usually I don't like to come into the middle of a series of books, but I made an exception since this was on sale and I was intrigued by the premise. The United States and the British Empire both discover passageways to an alien planet where they benefit from technological advances. Several.humans also reap the rewards of the planet as their offspring become enhanced and are labeled Champions. The Champions have been assigned roles to.use their talents in service of their governments. This book leaps ahead from the era of discovering and colonizing the new world to roughly fifty years later, following a new Champion, Anne, as she reaches adulthood. Anne, her newly minted lieutenant friend Stephanie and their guardian, a British sergeant named Mike, are confronted with an immediate threat as a long missing Champion named Lady Emily returns with an agenda that may spell doom for the Champion project. The setting for most of the novel, Newfoundland, adds plenty of interest and the characters are very likable. There is also a timeline of events at the start of the book that helps establish the alternate world of 1940. I am looking forward to the sequel that heads into 1941 and planning to go back to the earlier books to see how this fascinating world was created.