Welcome to my website! March, 2008

I'm David Orange, author of the science fiction suspense thriller novel

        The Powder Merchant

BookReview.com says: "The Powder Merchant is Very Good. This imaginative novel has one of the most original plot concepts I've seen in years ... It zips along like a Japanese express train!"

Emily-Jane Hills Orford of AllBooks Review says: "The Powder Merchant is a powerful fast paced, page-turning thriller. Watch out for the ending."

Roundtable Book Reviews says: "This is science fiction the way it was meant to be--engaging, plausible, just barely enough removed from reality to still be comfortable yet close enough to possibility that it causes soul searching. Pick up this book, you will not be disappointed."

Joe Elic--veteran Broadway and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest film actor: "The Powder Merchant is a galloping, one-sitting read!"

PRESS RELEASE,  DECEMBER 2007  Broadway and film actor David Orange, featured in the motion picture hit Star Trek VI, the Undiscovered Country as the humorous Sleepy Klingon, has imagination running wild in his debut novel . . . a uniquely inventive, engaging, edgy suspense thriller that  "goes where no man, or Trekker, has gone before!"

The Powder Merchant book description:

Science fact: by 2030, neurotechnician scientists feel we will be able to scan ourselves--our intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories--into computers. Is Cyberspace the beginning of Eternal Life?

What kind of man is above the law, beyond suspicion, madly brilliant and seeking life everlasting? 

Alexander Volga, a distinguished billionaire entrepreneur, veils himself in respectability, hiding a murky lineage, a uniquely devious and sharp mind, and literally millions of destroyed lives. Believing he once lived as a deity in ancient Atlantis, he recreates the mythical land in Virtual Reality! Sensing storm clouds of retribution approaching, Alexander prepares for his last, best trick, investing his enormous fortune in an audacious attempt to have his mind live "on-line" after body death!

An unexplainable force draws sultry, no-nonsense law enforcement officer Harriet O’Keefe to Alexander. Harriet, whose job is to track down the big chieftains of the cocaine and heroin world—the Merchants of Powder--finds herself dangerously close to falling for Alexander's lure,  the most wanted and insidious man against whom she's ever matched wits as she races to topple his empire and ego.   

With tension mounting from all sides, and uncertain of where loyalty remains, Alexander, for the first time, sets a Machiavellian plan in motion unsure of the evil outcome. But his enemies better check their life-insurance policies, and Harriet O’Keefe, her heart.

About the author

David Orange writes for several magazine publications. He is also an accomplished Broadway, film and television actor. Orange, an owner of a New York City-based wine importing company, divides his time between Manhattan and Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

www.davidorange.net

email: theorangeman34@davidorange.net