‘USAVIA’ is a trilogy of novels I have written for teens of all ages. What’s it about? Here’s a brief summary:-
Two great rival expeditions race across ocean, rivers and jungle in search of a fabulous lost city. And exploration turns to all-out war.
The totalitarian Axist Empire sends three thousand well trained and disciplined soldiers and airmen in a fleet of huge armed airships.
The (wildly) democratic city-state of Usavia sends a similar number of civilian volunteers, also armed to their proverbial teeth, but with little training and less discipline.
What Usavia does have is the 80,000-ton ocean liner Gloriana, the boundless enthusiasm of amateurs, a million or so bullets, and teenager Jimmy Fort.
Jimmy strives to join Usavia’s expedition, stay on it, help beat the Axists, and live to tell the tale. The last literally, since he is a cub reporter. So he joins a liner-load of trigger-happy lunatics. And they’re the GOOD guys!
To be sure to be sure, the Axists also send saboteurs, a fleet of armed trawlers and submarines, and enlist the aid of huge sea monsters, an army of small but nasty green alien Nazis, and even the weather, in the form of a lethal storm that has raged a thousand years.
More to come…