Sword of the Amazon
| Sword of the Amazon | |
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| Time frame | Mid to late 2003 |
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| First posted | February 17, 2020 – May 14, 2020 |
| Series | Independent |
| Series number | 11 |
| Chapters | 26 |
| Related | Locations Characters |
Summary
A masked woman in black carrying only a sword stops a holdup at a Toledo Ohio convenience store late one evening and disappears into the night. A few days later, she again appears from nowhere to rescue a six-year-old girl kidnapped earlier that same day and fades into the dark. She calls herself Hippolyta after the Amazon Queen from Greek mythology, but police are stumped as to who she is, and so are the media, calling her a new modern-day superheroine. Newspaper reporter and part-time policeman Charlie Parker, with younger sister Sally Parker who’s a reporter for a local TV station, are working with Janice and Rick, two more cops, to uncover her identity. Then the situation turns serious, with the local gangs now targeting her because she helped in a recent drug bust. Deadly serious, with MAC-10s aimed directly at her!
Author's Disclaimer
This is a story that appears to be set in Toledo, Ohio, but it isn’t at all. The street map is different, the newspapers also, and though all the other TV stations are fictional there really is a Channel 24, WNWO-TV. I am very grateful to the staff members there who allowed me to hang around the newsroom to learn enough about how a local TV newsroom works to write about one. My real knowledge of fencing is equally limited, but I have to thank the owners of a now defunct salle for letting me hang around several evenings and even work out with them—rather ineptly—in order to be able to give what is hopefully a realistic portrayal of an enthusiast of the sport as it existed in 2003 when most of the story was written. Any character similarities to those of other books are also just that, similar. –WB
