It’s really quite simple. Mr. Nobody wants to do his job. The Midnight Angel wants to serve her Lord. Billy Ray, dying from boredom, wants some action. John Nighthawk wants to uncover the awful secret behind his mysterious power. Fortunato wants to rescue his son from the clutches of a cryptic Vatican office. John Fortune just wants to catch Siegfried and Ralph’s famous Vegas review. The problem is that all roads, whether they start in Turin, Italy, Las Vegas, Hokkaido, Japan, Jokertown, Snake Hill, the Short Cut, or Yazoo City, Mississippi, lead to Leo Barnett’s Peaceable Kingdom where the difference between the Apocalypse and Peace on Earth is as thin as a razor’s edge and where Death himself awaits the final terrible turn of the card.
Wild Cards: Death Draws Five is an original novel set in this shared world utilizing characters from other Wild Card adventures.
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John J. Miller
John Joseph Miller (a.k.a. J.J. Miller, John J. Miller, and John Jos Miller), born 1954 in New York state, is a New Mexico science fiction author known for his work in the long-running (since 1987) Wild Cards shared universe series of original anthologies and novels, edited by George R. R. Martin. He also published nine novels, and nearly 30 short stories and eight comic book scripts. He also wrote GURPS Wild Cards, a supplement for the GURPS role-playing system published in 1989, and two Wild Cards world books and histories published by Green Ronin.
Wild Cards
Series contains 30 primary works and has 30 total works.
Into a world hungry for peace, comes a spaceship ferrying chaos...
An alien bomb is detonated above the planet, shedding an indiscriminate gene virus on an Earth barely recovered from the horrors of World War ll. The result: Wild Cards. ACES blessed with superhuman powers and JOKERS cursed with bizarre physical and mental disfigurements.
This is their story.
