Books by Malcolm Chester

Courtney, douze ans, redoute le jour où elle deviendra une femme, car c'est à ce moment-là qu'elle devra quitter Elysia, le monde de lumière, de bonté et de beauté pour ne plus jamais y revenir. Récemment élue reine, Courtney sait que les règles d'Elysia sont inflexibles. Seuls les enfants sont autorisés. Le monde de Courtney était autrefois normal. Mais après la disparition de son père, Courtney, qui cherche désespérément à échapper à sa dépression, commence à entrer dans un monde imaginaire chaque nuit pendant son sommeil. Aussi jeune qu'elle soit, même Courtney sait que cet endroit ne peut pas exister. Pourtant, dans ce monde coloré rempli de créatures délicieuses, tout le monde veut la rendre heureuse, y compris sa nouvelle meilleure amie et le garçon de ses rêves. Mais malheureusement, une civilisation maléfique existe également dans les environs, et son roi a volé le cristal magique qui fournit le pouvoir au monde magnifique qu'elle est venue aimer. Maintenant, Courtney et ses amis doivent voyager dans les dangereuses ténèbres pour essayer de récupérer le cristal avant de devenir adultes. Dans ce conte fantastique, alors que Courtney et ses nouveaux amis atteignent la maturité, ils doivent d'une manière ou d'une autre trouver la force et le caractère en chacun d'eux afin de sauver leur monde de la destruction.

A decorated Seal Lieutenant Commander, Ralph Tager, loses a team he used to lead in an ambush. Worse yet, his wife is killed defending his 9-year-old daughter who is sexually abused and murdered. Ralph takes out his revenge, which is consuming him, on the violent pedophile Ted and in doing so saves a 10-year-old girl Cindy being tortured by him. Ralph wants to adopt this young girl whose parents were murdered by Ted but the FBI who suspects Ralph killed Ted prevents the adoption from happening for a time. A billionaire Sydney, whose daughter was also murdered by a pedophile offers Ralph a job as the head of a security firm he owns if he will lead a team to kill all the violent pedophiles they can find.Sydney also promises to make Cindy's adoption a reality for Ralph. While this takes place, the involvement of the government in what has happened to Ralph becomes clearer by the day. Leaving the Seals, Ralph becomes Pay Back for Sydney while he tries to dodge a number of assassins sent to kill him. Ralph and Cindy become close but she also becomes a target. Ralph unravels the government conspiracies against both he and Cindy and dodge assassins sent by threatened pedophiles and governments.Pay Back must also avoid the police who want Pay Back sent to jail for sending pedophiles to their graves. This action-packed story is complex and relentless as Pay Back tries to protect his daughter and himself from the fate others have determined for them.

A beautiful single woman Mary Ann decides to volunteer at a Homeless Center in Chicago. She works at an ad agency but wants to do something significant with the little free time she has. At the center, she meets a Homeless Man Edward that intrigues her. The curious man who actually doesn't appear homeless is headed to the library to discuss ancient history with one of the librarians in ancient languages. At one time a journalist, Mary Ann decides to find out more about this man so she travels to the library to talk with the librarian. The librarian relates that the man is probably a genius as she saw him writing very complex mathematical formulas on one of the library computers. He is also a brilliant violin player. She subsequently finds out that Edward is actually Isaac considered by many to be one of the greatest minds on Earth who has allegedly developed a device that transports people and objects through hyperspace to the planets of the solar system. He also has developed extremely advanced weapons to protect his device. The military wants Edward to develop more weapons and keep the weapons that they have of his working. Edward does not wish to do this so he is hiding in plain site as a homeless man. Meanwhile, Mary Ann is developing a romantic relationship with Edward. As the military relentlessly pursues them Mary Ann and Edward flee. Edward's ties to an alien race of which he is not aware unveil a secret fate in store for the Earth. Together they try to survive an increasing hostile military while trying to save the Earth that seems to wish to do them harm.