Bücher der Reihe The Adventures of V

Volume 1 in the Adventures of V series.When massive earthquakes ripple, simultaneously, all over the world, bringing chaos, scientists are puzzled - what is happening?V, the half-alien ancient vampire goddess, knows.Cardinal Xavier Ambrosiano, the leader of a secret satanic cult nested deep in the Vatican, has triggered a giant alien device buried deep in North Africa.The Crystal - and V is its custodian - is also known as the World-Destroyer.  By twisting Earth''s gravitational field, it can tear the planet apart.  Since before the time of Augustus Caesar, V has protected the CrystalSince the time of Augustus Caesar, V has fought the satanic cult, and its ritual sacrifice of young women. Even now, monkish figures, disguised as Latin lovers, stalk the streets of Rome, hunting for ideal victims - young women to incarnate the goddess - who must be sacrificed in a black Mass, exorcising the feminine principle, casting women out of divinity, robbing them of their divine luster and power.To defeat the Cardinal, V needs allies. Father Patrick Michael O''Bryan, an Irish Jesuit and famous exorcist, dithers - V is a demon, obviously, but she is a flirtatious - and possibly good - demon. Should he cast her out, and kill her, or join her mission? Don U Pizzu, a dapper handsome Mafia Don and ruthless killer, is entranced. What to do? Gun the charming vampire down, or offer her roses and champagne?Kate Thornhill, a brilliant young scientist, is hypnotized by V''s beauty - and her sleek silky warrior outfit - a temptation for a girl of Kate''s martial temper. Time presses. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis sweep around the world.Tourists, caught in Rome, flee from dangerous buildings to the open spaces of the Roman Forum, which becomes the stage for a giant bacchanal, celebrating the end of the world. Vesuvius and Yellowstone erupt. Superstorms rage; cities collapse; chaos and terror spread. The end is nigh. At the last moment, just as Earth teeters on the edge of annihilation, just as Rome, the Eternal City, collapses into ruins, V faces off against Cardinal and the Intergalactic Evil Force he has welcomed into our universe. If V fails, humanity''s great adventure comes to an end.If V fails, nothing will be left of Earth but a cold dead asteroid belt, circling around the sun.  A mad Cardinal, scheming prelates, human sacrifice, Mafia plots, Vatican scandals, a dying Pope, a damsel in distress, theological debates, a persnickety Jesuit, a gorgeous vampire, a sleek warrior woman, a galaxy of characters, a dying Earth, and an impending Apocalypse, all add up - to a sexy whirlwind adventure, for fans of Dan Brown, of the Exorcist, of the Godfather movies, and of dystopian and apocalyptic fiction. 

Volume 2 in the Adventure of V series. A beautiful half-mad billionaire, a mischievous half-alien vampire, a handsome disheveled scientist, a brainy stripper, a diabolical Russian oligarch, and a graceful wild-eyed Clone, take us on an epic journey across America and deep into the treacherous paradise of the South Seas. When naughty, mischievous, witty vampire V discovers that her ultra-dangerous, half-alien DNA has been used by billionaire scientist Sabrina Jacobs to create a clone, she realizes that the human race is in mortal danger.To nip the alien DNA contagion in the bud, she must kill Sabrina and the 14-year-old Clone. Having just escaped from Sabrina''s bounty-hunters, stunned and half-naked, V staggers out of the desert onto a lonely endless strip of road.She flags down a handsome yummy scientist, Alex Wolf. Later, out hunting for human fodder, she picks up a beautiful stripper, Helen Guerrera. Together, the trio set off on a rollicking chaotic chase across the ruins of a dystopian America - searching for Sabrina and the Clone - and then, still in pursuit of Sabrina and the Clone, they sail deep into the South Pacific, searching the Sulu Sea and the Philippines.While V hunts Sabrina, Sabrina hunts V.Sabrina'' dream is to lobotomize beautiful V, to enslave her, and to exploit her DNA to create a race of immortal superhumans. But, while V and Sabrina hunt each other, Sabrina''s sadistic ex-lover, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Pavlov, stalks Sabrina.He plans to capture and sink Sabrina''s marvelous research ship, Andromeda, to kidnap the Clone and transform gorgeous brilliant Sabrina into a grotesque freak - an animal to be kept in a cage. At the center of all this, is the Clone, a tragic, failed experiment, and Sabrina''s greatest regret. Perpetually imprisoned by Sabrina in an armored glass cage, the exquisite but utterly insane 14-year-old Clone has never breathed the open air. Just as V closes in on Sabrina and the Clone, Dmitry springs his trap, and, at the same time, a huge tropical typhoon closes in, threatening everyone and everything. In the chaos of overlapping struggles, will V succeed in saving the world from the plague of her alien DNA, will she eliminate Sabrina and the Clone - or will she fail?  

Volume 4 in the Adventures of V seriesA fearless sheriff, a pregnant art historian, a mad scientist, a shackled prisoner, a zombie reporter, an orphaned boy, a zombie film star, a gung-ho colonel, an ancient goddess, a reptilian secret service agent, a gorgeous Synthetic Individual, a stubborn ship''s captain, an adoring zombie, are all caught up - with V - in a tsunami of chaos when the zombie virus overwhelms Miami, and spreads, like wildfire, through Florida and beyond. The great luxury liner, the Eden of the Seas, steered by zombies - directed by an invisible central mind, the Puppet Master - has crashed into the Miami seafront, unleashing the zombie pandemic which now rages out of control on the mainland, overwhelming Miami, Fort Lauderdale, much of Florida, and heading for New York City and Houston, Texas. Leaping from the Eden before it crashed, V had kidnapped the US president, Katherine du Bois Hughes, and had gotten her to safety on the research ship, Andromeda II. On Andromeda II, Andromeda Corp CEO Sabrina Jacobs and V arrange to get the president back to Washington so Katherine can reverse a coup d ├⌐tat, carried out by the fundamentalist vice president, Joseph Humility Ebenezer Jackson, and seize back control of the government. While the president heads for Washington, V plunges deep into the Florida Everglades to rescue from lobotomy by a mad scientist a kidnapped young woman, Monica Fabritz, who, manacled down in a secret government installation, is about to give birth to a human-alien hybrid, perhaps the prophesized zombie anti-Christ.Just as V arrives, US Marines storm into the installation with instructions to kill everybody, a horde of zombies converges on the site, and Freddy, the lethal hybrid that kidnapped and raped Monica smashes his way into the building to kidnap his alien-hybrid son.   Returning to Andromeda II with Monica and her baby, V, accompanied by a beautiful Marine sergeant and a handsome Navy captain, sets off to meet the Puppet Master. On the terrorist yacht, A Flight of Fancy, she travels through a shimmering space-time gateway into an alternative universe. There V and her fellow castaways - and their guide, a teenage goddess, Isis - find themselves on a lush, primitive, paradise-like island. Here, in this strange alternate world, the natives worship V as a long-absent goddess who has returned to them. V must perform endless ceremonies, accepting one human sacrifice after another, emptying her victims of their blood. Getting spoiled, the worshippers clamor for more spectacular performances.Finally, one day, V, helped by young Isis, travels deep underground, into the bowels of the earth, under a volcano, and confronts the source of the pandemic, the Puppet Master. He is none other than a grotesque reincarnation of the handsome sadistic Russian oligarch, Dmitry Pavlov, himself an emanation of the eternal Evil Force, V''s constant foe and nemesis.Meanwhile, other refugees from the virus, Alex Wolf, chief scientist of Andromeda Corporation, Marie-Jos├⌐, the beautiful  French SIN, the two Chinese acrobats, Fei and Fang, actress Virginia Lily -  who has become a charming zombie - and Virginia''s sidekick, 11-year-old Jake, struggle to survive, to contain the virus, and to discover an antidote and a vaccine, while holed up in a laboratory just outside Miami, besieged by rampaging zombies and by murderous anti-science militias inspired by the fundamentalist anti-science vice president.In the alternative universe, under the volcano, V faces the ultimate test, risking her soul - and her body - to save the world from eternal enslavement to the Puppet Master.