Books by Bob Doerr

Stranded in Space: Book 4 in The Enchanted Coin Series is a 31,000 word fantasy adventure targeted at Middle Grade readers. Imagine being a fourteen year old again and finding a coin that seems to give off a light of its own. The coin has your name on it, claims to be magical, and instructs you to toss it into a fountain next to the Tree of Life. That's what happens in Stranded in Space, and what starts my protagonist off on a magical adventure that many young boys and girls would love to have.This book is "G" rated.CharactersDrake Thompson is a 14-year-old boy, who finds an enchanted coin and is transported onto a damaged spaceship belonging to a race of people known as the Krozans.Baya is a 14-year-old girl from the planet Shantell who is also sent by a magical coin to the same spaceship at the same time as Drake. She looks like an Earth girl but her skin and hair are blue.Zane is a Krozan teenager whom Drake and Baya have to bring out of hibernation to help them save the spaceship and the Krozan crew and passengers.

A disputed election has divided the nation, and a handful of senior government officials have conspired to have the North Koreans assassinate the President of the United States. Believing the assassination attempt to be only days away, Theresa Deer, Director of the Special Section, a small unit whose existence is known by only a few in the U.S. government, is tasked to interdict the man intent on providing the North Koreans vital information about the president's itinerary for his visit to South Korea. While Deer succeeds in her mission, she is severely injured and finds herself being hunted the North Korean assassins. Clint Smith is sent to Korea to help Deer get back to the U.S. and finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the North Koreans. With no one in the U.S. government to turn to for help, and the South Koreans now also looking for them, Clint approaches a wealthy American widow living in Busan for assistance. Not knowing whether she'll help or not, Clint discovers that he has approached the one person in the city who will bring him face to face to the North Koreans and the endgame.