THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS

THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS

by Gary Martin Burnell
THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS

THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS

by Gary Martin Burnell

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Overview

How can a 400 year-old diary that was brought to America by John White, the Governor of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony of 1587, contain Beatles' song lyrics? And what does Elwood, a college freshman who believes he’s an extraterrestrial, have to do with it? And how does Erica, the beautiful daughter of the U.S. Air Force’s Chief Investigator of UFO’s, make this connection while she’s exacting revenge on Elwood for embarrassing her father on a television game show called IT’S ACADEMIC?

THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS is a science fiction romantic comedy that begins in 1965 America with Erica trying to corroborate information that she’s discovered that would give credence to Elwood’s claim of being an extraterrestrial left on Earth to perform a monumental mission, and once completed, his biological parents would return for him. Their story begins with Erica at the Lumbee Indian Nation investigating the miraculous diary, a diary that, if authentic, smashes the accepted space-time continuum, and confirms Elwood Tanner’s secret rogue activities. With Erica’s help, Elwood finds and completes the mission he’d suspected he was destined for all along. Finding what this mission is and how it was completed makes this read a 'can't put it down' kind of book. And did I forget to mention the sparks that fly between Elwood and Erica? After all, this is a romantic comedy of an interplanetary order.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780578633503
Publisher: Gary Martin Burnell
Publication date: 03/02/2020
Series: THE MAN FROM THE UNKNOWNS , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 970 KB
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gary Burnell is a retired High School English teacher.

Table of Contents

1: AMERICA 1965: Erica Smith, daughter of Dr. Heirich Smith, Chief UFO Investigator for the U.S. Air Force, is at the Lumbee Indian Reservation attempting to authenticate a 400-year-old diary that contains Beatles' song lyrics. If true, it confirms Elwood Tanner's extraterrestrial claims.

2 : SIX MONTHS EARLIER: Elwood discredits Dr. Smith on a television quiz show.

3: GETTING  REAL: Elwood meets Erica at a dance. Once she recognizes him, she slaps his lights out.

4: NO DEPOSIT-NO RETURN: Elwood and Erica inadvertently are subjected to a bank hold up.

5:LIVING BY FAITH, NOT SIGHT: Elwood becomes smitten with Erica and decides to follow her to Ohio State University.

6: COLLEGE  FRESHMEN: Elwood and friend Melvin attend Ohio State. Elwood becomes a monitor for S.E.L.F. (Search for Extraterrestrial Life Forms).

7: IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? Elwood begins transmitting Beatles' songs and personal messages hoping to connect with his parents.

8: ERICA'S SHOCKING REALIZATION: Erica discovers that Elwood is on campus.

9: ELWOOD AND ERICA, ROUND FOUR: Erica is forced to interview Elwood at the S.E.L.F. station to meet a journalism deadline, during which she believes she's discovered he's cutting into the transmissions.

10: THE EYE  ON SELF: Dr. Smith learns that Elwood is a monitor for S.E.L.F. and icreases surveillance.

11: SEEK AND DESTROY: Erica plots to secretly record Elwood's transmissions.

12: 1580's LONDON: John White mysteriously is able to hear Elwood's broadcasts, writes most of it down, and forms The Knavels to play Beatles' music.

13:  MEANWHILE, BACK  AT  S.E.L.F.: Erica records Eldood's broadcasts, and he finds out too late.

14: KNAVELMANIA: The Knavels are rocking in Elizabethan England.

15: LONDON JOHN'S FLASHBACK: How John came to hear Elwood's broadcasts.

16: COURTING DISASTER: Elwood has Melvin call Erica and pose as Campus Security to get the cassette tape, but ends up plea bargaining her into a date with Elwood.

17: THE DATE: Erica gets to know Elwood and decides she can't exact revenge on him.

18: HOAXES  AND  JOKESES: Erica backs off of a practical joke she' been playing on Elwood.

19: LET'S DUKE IT OUT: While playing at the castle, John White challenges the Duke of Anjou to a joust in an effort to expose his deceitful dealings with the Queen.

20: THE REVELATION: Erica learns of the John White's diary contents that confirm Elwood's claim.

21: SELF-EXPOSED: Erica visits Elwood and tries to find out more about what he's been doing.

22:  WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: The beginning where Erica is at the Lumbee Indian Reservation documenting the authenticity of John White's diary.

23: BUSTED!: Dr. Smith learns of Elwood's broadcasts, forms a securiy squad, and heads out to shut S.E.L.F. down.

24: IT'S  ABOUT  TIME: Erica alerts Elwood to the diary's contents and what it reveals about his mission.

25: SELF-DECEPTION: Elwood, Erica, Melvin, and Willow begin the mission.

26: SHOCK THEATRE: John White and the Duke of Anjou joust.

27: GET THE PICTURE?: John White receives a vision that helps him win the joust. The Queen promises him passage to America.

28: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Elwood, Erica, Melvin, and Willow are arrested.                      

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