Best Selling Books by Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace herein presents the stories of “some Americans who dared to be different”— crackpots, perhaps, all of them, but also exceedingly diverting people to meet, know, and watch as they pursue their peculiar activities. This picturesque and wacky crew is brilliantly dealt with in these nine chapters: In Defense of the Square Peg Wherein we meet Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believed the Earth was flat, and wherein we learn the need for encouraging individualism and nonconformity. The King of Thirty-Sixth Street Wherein we meet Baron James A. Harden-Hickey, American ruler of Trinidad, who became an authority on the art of suicide. The Man Who Was Phileas Fogg Wherein we meet George Francis Train, millionaire member of the Commune, who was the first man to travel around the world in eighty days. The Free Lover Who Ran for President Wherein we meet Victoria Woodhull, stockbroker, spiritualist, and prostitute, who competed with Ulysses S. Grant for tenancy of the White House. The Forty-Niner Who Abolished Congress Wherein we meet Joshua Norton, self-appointed Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, who issued orders to Abraham Lincoln. The Lady Who Moved Shakespeare’s Bones Wherein we meet Delia Bacon, schoolteacher frustrated in love, who became the implacable enemy of the Bard of Avon. The Explorer of the Hollow Earth Wherein we meet John Cleves Symmes, hero of the War of 1812, who planned an expedition into the interior world through holes in the North and South poles. The Editor Who Was a Common Scold Wherein we meet Anne Royall, widow and author, who interviewed a Chief Executive while he was in the nude. The First in the East Wherein we meet Timothy Dexter, merchant prince and foe of grammar, who sent coals to Newcastle and published a book without punctuation.

The big passionate novel of a woman daring to live and love freely—no matter what the price. She was forced to choose between one man''s love and her own pride as a woman. Brigham married one woman too many when he took Ann Eliza Webb as his twenty-seventh wife. He was the leader of the polygamous Mormon faith, as powerful in the Utah Territory as the President of the United States. She was a great beauty with a quiet manner—and an iron will. For four years, Eliza lived in Brigham Young''s harem as his 27th wife. Then, one summer morning, she walked out, deserting her husband and suing him for divorce...

वास्तव हे कल्पिताहून अदभुत असू शकतं. याचे दाखले जगात नेहमीच मिळत असतात. एकासारखी एक दिसणारी माणसं दुर्मीळ असतात, परंतु तशी असू शकतात. ’क्लोनिंग’च्या आजच्या जमान्यात तर अशा शेकडो व्यक्ती निर्माण करता येतील, इतकी मजल विज्ञानानं गाठलेली आहे. भोवाल संन्याशाचा या शतकातील गाजलेला खटला आपल्याला आठवत असेल. एका फार मोठ्या संस्थानातील गायब झालेला गृहस्थ काही वर्षांनी अचानक घरी दाखल होतो. नातलगांना तो संपत्ती लाटण्यासाठी आलेला भोंदू वाटतो. पुढं कित्येक वर्षं त्याच्यावर खटला चालू राहतो... वगैरे. पेशवाईच्या काळात पानिपतच्या युद्धानंतर असाच एक तोतया सदाशिवराव भाऊ म्हणून पुण्यात हजर होतो. नाना फडणीसांच्या अक्कलहुशारीनं त्याची लबाडी उघडकीस येते. सेकंड लेडी ही तशीच एक विलक्षण कथा आहे. आपण जिच्यासमोर संसार करतो, ती आपली पत्नी प्रत्यक्षात ’दुसरीच’ स्त्री आहे, असं समजलं, तर आपल्याला केवढा जबर धक्का बसेल? पण इतं तर खुद्द अमेरिकेच्या राष्ट्राध्यक्षांना त्या वस्तुस्थितीवर विश्u200dवास बसत नाही. त्यांचं कामजीवनही ’नेहमीच्या’च परिचित ’क्रीडां’प्रमाणे यत्किंचितही संशय न येता सुरळीतपणे चालू राहतं... अशी ही नाजूक; पण गुंतागुंतीची, मती गुंग करणारी कादंबरी... सेकंड लेडी! On a state visit to Moscow, Billie Bradford, the beautiful and brilliant wife of the President of the United States, is abducted by the Soviets and replaced by Vera Vazilova, a superbly trained Russian undercover agent and actress who is the First Lady''s physical double. The impostor''s mission - to induce the President to reveal a U.S. secret that will drastically tip the world balance toward Russia. But one false move - whether before TV cameras or in the White House bedroom - can destroy the entire masquerade. And in Moscow, Billie also has a mission - to frantically seek ways to escape while daringly leading a Soviet intelligence officer astray about the most intimate area of her married life. Two women, each playing a treacherous game in a foreign land, each taking a desperate gamble in the arms of the other''s lover--a world-shaking gamble that only one of them can win... Praise for The Second Lady "Intense, suspenseful... Every ingredient known to produce a thriller!"- Los Angeles Times "Fast-paced, action-packed, and sex-fired!"- New York Post A Literary Guild Featured Alternative Special Bonus - An Excerpt from the novel Desire, by Amy Wallace, is included at the end of the audiobook! Publisher''s note: If you have not discovered the fiction of Irving Wallace, you are in for a treat. Starting with his controversial best-seller The Chapman Report (which was feautured in Stephen King''s new thriller, 11/22/63, and continuing on through The Man - a novel in which a black senator became president in the turbulent 1960s (for which Wallace''s family received threats while the movie - featuring James Earl Jones - was in production), as well as The Prize, The Miracle, and many others, Wallace provided fast-paced, intricately researched thrillers on pace with the world around him. Charged with intrigue, sex, and wonderfully complex plots, Wallace sold literally millions of copies of his novels worldwide. It is our pleasure at Crossroad Press to bring them back, one by one, in digital. It has also our privilege to work with Wallace''s daughter, Amy, an accomplished author in her own right. Amy passed on unexpectedly and far too young in 2013. We have brought back Amy''s critically acclaimed novel Desire - in both digital and audio, as well as her biography of James Sidis - The Prodigy. Just search Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, or Crossroad Press for our growing catalog of their work.