TOM BALLARD ARTS
FICTION

Get To Know Your Duck (stageplay)
Ecological disaster confounds the family next door. A comic play with feathers.
The Last Quack (novel)
In this first-ever naturopathic suspense novel, Kate Turner discovers that tripping over a dead body may be hazardous to her health, especially when the dead woman was researching the same medicinal mushroom.

The President is Down (novel)

President Lawson Webb, son of wealth and privilege, flying on a mission to globalize the Americas, crashes to earth in the remote mountains of Central America. Rescued by a peasant, Juanita, Webb has no memory of who he is, and she no idea who just dropped into her life.
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With a murderous dictator and a mysterious rebel after them, Webb and Juanita flee across country by bus and foot, through cemeteries and sports bars. Will they survive?
Of course. This is a humorous adventure political thriller love story.
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But first heroics, then romance, then meeting the girlfriend's parents who, like Juanita, speak some incomprehensible language. And the persistent, "Who am I?" until memory and the horror of who he was returns.
"A laugh-out-loud riot. The best book I've read in decades." Mark Twain
Eco-Agent Man (stageplay)
Nick Chronos, undercover Ecology Agent with a bag of quirky low-tech tricks, battles a ruthless developer to save an endangered species.
