Wrath of God

by Robert Gleason

As the barbarian armies of a modern-day Khan prepare to bear down on a weakened America, the nation's only hope is in a ragtag band of cowboys who have retrieved George S. Patton, Stonewall Jackson, and Amelia Earhart from the past. Reprint.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

512 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Robert Gleason was born in Michigan City, Indiana. He has an AB in English literature from Indiana University, a master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and he attended the Sorbonne, all of which were financed by seven hellish years in the Gary steel mills. He has worked in New York book publishing as an acquisitions editor pretty much forever. When he began, he says, he and his colleagues "chiseled books on the walls of caves." He lives in New York City

Reviews

[Nathaniel]

I read this book during the summer between eighth and ninth grade (I was very intellectually mature for my age) and barely remember it now. All I remember was at the time being psyched that I'd scored such a cool-sounding book for free, but once I read it I found it to be....weird, to put it mildly, sort of like a really flat version of Mad Max involving historical time travel. The author has an imaginative premise, but his skill as a writer doesn't measure up to his ambition. To this day, my strongest memory of this book is the author's obsession with the phrase "the screams of tortured men" or something like that, which he seemed fond of using as a generic atmospheric quote in practically every scene involving Tamerlane. I don't even remember much about it or how it ended; I just remember being disappointed.

[Mike]

It sounded weird from the jacket write-up but it was a fun story. An evil villain, Khan,and his snake lady leading the hordes against the cowboys lead by George Patton. Amelia Earheart, and Stonewall Jackson to save America. It worked.

[Donald]

Very good read! Action, well developed characters, realistic scenarios, plots within plots...all combined for a very good ysrn@