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Based on the exciting Warner Bros. movie starring Shaquille O'Neal, this movie tie-in includes photos from the movie! It's August, it's hot, and the streets of L.A. are threatened by a wave of violence involving a devastating, ultra-destructive superweapon. John Henry Irons, a former metallics expert in the U.S. military, has returned home only to find that the top secret weapons he helped create have found their way to the Los Angeles streets.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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Dean Wesley Smith

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Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

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July 31, 2023
very standard superhero story. I’d be interested to see what someone who knows about how racism and gang violence would think about how the book portrays it. something felt off with one character’s arc ending by him changing his pronunciations to sound “less street”
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