Politics come to the forefront in the fourth Wild Cards book, as the World Health Organisation organises a fact finding junket to find out what impact the Wild Card Virus is having around the world. There is also a story with an Australian flavor, "Down In The Dreamtime". Senator Gregg Hartman, secretly 'Puppetman', a mind controlling ace. Along with his own plotting, his is caught up in violence and the plans of Ti Malice,...
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I LOVED this book in the series, because it explores (for the first time) how Wild Cards affected the rest of the world. We get to travel along with a World Health Organization Fact-Finding Mission, charged with documenting the global affect of Wild Cards. And through their eyes, we get to see how cultures around the world changed and evolved as a result of the virus; I found that was really the final detail I needed to...
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Aces Abroad is exactly what the title says - American Aces going outside of the US. A delegation of Aces, Jokers, and Nats( all in a Boeing 747 names The Stacked Deck), goes abroad to see the situation of aces outside the US. They go to South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe - in short, a 'round the world' tour. After three books that focused on the US, the much needed international perspective to the story...
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