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Falling Star just got a wonderful endorsement from a charter member of the Natio nal Book Critics Circle, Alan Caruba who said on his blog: "It is rare when a novelist makes his debut with as powerful a novel as Philip C henâ s Falling Star ($15.25, available from Amazon.com, softcover and on Kindle). It begins in 1967 and concludes in the Oval Office in 1993. In between Chen introd uces you to an array of characters, all of whom have unique talents, some of who m are U.S. Navy officers, some w
Category:(not categorized)Reads:73Uploaded:11 / 30 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionScribd Announcement
Falling Star is now available as a Kindle book. You can find it at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YCPK4C Thank you all for your support over this past year and I hope you enjoy this novel. If you like it, I hope you will leave a nice review. Thank you Phil Chen
Category:ThrillersReads:199Uploaded:08 / 06 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt24-062910
O.K., this is getting weird. One of the alleged Russian deep cover spies is "Anya" Chapman, a glamorous, dark haired, blue eyed business woman from New York. The assassin who tried to kill Mildred, one of my CSAC agents, was a glamorous, dark-haired, blue-eyed business woman. My novel was written twenty-years ago.
Category:ThrillersReads:297Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt23-062910
Pretty soon, you won't have to read my book, because Fact will have caught up with Fiction. The FBI announced today that they have apprehended the 11th suspected deep cover Russian agent in Cyprus. He had flown there to allude capture. In my novel a key undercover agent is alerted to the fact that the hero and his colleagues were on his trail and he does the same thing; except my story was written twenty years ago.
Category:ThrillersReads:292Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt22-062910
The arrests by the FBI yesterday of 11 Russian spies posing as ordinary Americans is another example of Fact imitating as Fiction. As followers of my Scribd account know, a major subplot in this novel are the unexpected attacks by people who seem to be ordinary Americans, but are found to have false IDs obtained using birth certificates of dead Americans. WARNING: Spoiler Alert. In this excerpt, Mike reports to his boss about these strange attacks.
Category:ThrillersReads:259Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt21-060110
In this excerpt agents from the secret agency search the apartment of one of the prime suspects involved in killing covert personnel. Falling Star is about the accidental discovery by the U.S. Navy in 1967 that the United States is being monitored by four mysterious and seemingly silent objects deep in the coastal waters of the United States. Twenty-six years later, these objects start broadcasting signals to outer space, triggering an urgent effort to decode and understand what they are transmitting. Mike's mission to decode this decades old mystery is complicated by a series of grisly attacks on him and his fellow agents. Are these attacks coming from traditional adversaries or are they coming from the strange objects that have monitored the United States for however long. The key to solving this mystery is in the unlikely friendship between the Chinese-American hero and Johnny Thapaha, a Navajo medicine man.
Category:ThrillersReads:270Uploaded:06 / 01 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt20-031810
In this excerpt, an agent has gone missing.
Category:Books - FictionReads:245Uploaded:03 / 18 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionFalling Star - Latest Version
A well-known award-winning author reviewed my novel and suggested changes to bring the action forward. She also said that she enjoyed the novel a lot and urged me to get it published. Attached is my latest first 90 pages.
Category:Books - FictionReads:361Uploaded:02 / 28 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionFalling Star, A suspense novel about aliens observing earth
Please read the first 85 pages of my redrafted novel, Falling Star. In this redrafted version, I restructured the story to tell more about Mike Liu and his interactions with prejudice. Mike's experiences serve as the basis for his unlikely friendship with Johnny Thapaha, the Navajo shaman and mystic who holds the key to solving the mystery of the objects discovered off the coast of the U.S. In addition, the story tells how the initial investigation of the object is conducted. I welcome comments as I would like to get this story told. The pages are formatted to 6X9 to approximate book size and to facilitate your reading.
Category:Books - FictionReads:806Uploaded:12 / 31 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionSci-Fi about aliens: Falling Star - Excerpt 11
Mildred has learn the identity of her mysterious attacker and has gone to Des Moines, Iowa, to learn more about her. The time is 1993 and Mike Liu is deeply immersed in a project when an insistent caller changes his life forever. Something has happened and Mike is dragged into a world of intrigue and mystery that he had thought he had left behind; a world completely different from his comfortable existence as a banker. Mike must solve this decades old mystery while trying to figure why someone or something is trying to kill him and his colleagues. Falling Star is about the accidental discovery by the U.S. Navy in 1967 that the United States is being monitored by four mysterious and seemingly silent objects deep in the coastal waters of the United States. Twenty-six years later, these objects start broadcasting signals to outer space, triggering an urgent effort to decode and understand what they are transmitting. Mike's mission to decode this decades old mystery is complicated by a series of grisly attacks on him and his fellow agents. Are these attacks coming from traditional adversaries or are they coming from the strange objects that have monitored the United States for however long.
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