Fire the Sky

Name: Fire the Sky
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: W. Michael Gear
ISBN: 9781461848141

Author: W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Series: Contact: The Battle for America #2

Narrator: Kevin Orton

Unabridged: 17 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/04/2011

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Best-selling writing team and archaeologists W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear offer this compelling second novel in their Battle for America series. In 1539, Black Shell, his wife Pearl Hand, and their fellow exiles try to make a stand against the invasion of the Kristianos and their leader Hernando de Soto. But de Soto doesn't plan to back down easily. "[A] powerful historical tale ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

About W. Michael Gear

W. Michael Gear is the author or coauthor with his beloved wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, of fifty-seven published novels. He is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into twenty-nine languages and has over 17 million copies in print world wide. Both an anthropologist and archaeologist, he brings extraordinary depth and complexity to his characters and settings. Gear lives on a back country buffalo ranch in Wyoming where he raises outstanding bison, indulges in his passion for large-caliber rifles, and pets his two shelties: Jake and Shannon. Michael can be found at gear-gear.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Evie on April 12, 2012

***Originally published to: Bookish Blog | YA&Adult Reviews, Author Interviews, Guest Posts, News and Giveaways! @_@~ Fire The Sky is the second book in Contact: Battle For America series by the bestselling author duo, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Just like the first book in the trilogy,......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on March 15, 2013

Battle for America: Fire the Sky; W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear, 2010; Gallery Books Fire in the sky is the second novel in Gear & Gear's "The Battle for America" series. Just as with the first book "Coming of the Storm", the authors have done a remarkable job of drawing this reader into the......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on February 28, 2011

Fire the Sky is the second book written by the Gears in their new First Contact series. I've been reading the Gears for 18 years now, love so many of their books, but have recently been disappointed by several - mostly due to the requirements of their publisher to keep the pages down and split up ma......more

Goodreads review by Laura on June 08, 2011

The second in the trilogy. Interesting read on the "early" discovery of America and how it affected the native Americans.......more

Goodreads review by Camille on November 11, 2015

I liked this book as it creeps into reality of what went on...too bad it wasn't accurate in fiction as it could have been and no one would have blinked.........more