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Natalia's Game by Craig T Bouchard
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New York Times bestselling author Craig T Bouchard creates a daring, unique, and action-packed new genre in his latest novel, Soul Ties of Spies. The first book in Natalia’s Game trilogy, Soul Ties of Spies is being sold in bookshops across Romania and Russia with no end in sight to its growing European popularity.
Where does the Soul Ties of Spies narrative focus?
The novel’s main themes include co-operation among intelligence agents in Russia, Romania, the UK, and the US, a love story between two protagonists, with a quantum physics twist.
Each avenue Bouchard writes about is detailed, delving deep into the world of spies as pages turn. With subtle intel, white-hot romance, and contemporary global issues at the heart of this story, it’s hard to look away.
The story unfolds fascinatingly with the male and female protagonists alternating points of view.
Crew Thomas is a legendary American spy and master of quantum physics whose current mission requires him to search for a partner to help him teleport into the future. Time travel becomes possible when Thomas finds Natalia Net, a young Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) operative with lucid dreaming skills extraordinaire.
Net is a highly trained assassin, and Thomas must convince her to risk her life and join him. What’s the price to pay? Perhaps death; or love; or an indestructible soul tie. You’ll bond with Natalia and arrive at a surprise ending you won’t see coming.
What is one to expect when the Federal Security Service, SRI, Scotland Yard and the Central Intelligence Agency work together? Pure edge-of-your-seat action.
Mending of global relations
Soul Ties of Spies is shockingly relevant to our divisive and dangerous world. Bouchard suggests how world powers could work together for the greater good of humanity. Bouchard’s primary contribution is to illuminate the problem while bringing forward a path to global reconciliation.
How does the author establish such a thorough, meaningful plot? Using real locations and fictional relationships between Romanian Natalia Net, General Thomas and several Russians.
Bouchard highlights the secret Romanian/CIA black ops site, known as Operation Bright Light, where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was interned and tortured in Bucharest after being captured on 1st March 2003 by the CIA and the Pakistan Intelligence Service. This rendition has long been rumoured to have led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Bright Light was real, and Bouchard makes us wonder what and who else in his novel might be real. Non-fiction or fiction? Covert intelligence locations in Kentucky that the public has never seen, with original photographs, draw readers’ suspicions, and rightfully so.
Romantic love story
A deep soul-tie attraction is the last thing Crew and Natalia expect during their wild ride. Who wouldn’t develop deep feelings for Natalia? Her tough, intelligent, and ambitious persona is a pure delight. Readers are in splendid awe at every decision she makes and every direction she takes.
The two brilliant spies find a way to astral project and teleport together, breaking the barriers of time and space. Fun? Not at all. It’s dangerous, and it’s not that simple. An antagonist, the beautiful and cunning Transylvanian Alina Balan, appears and challenges their soul connection. As we all know, jealousy can sometimes be more potent than love.
Quantum physics
Another sector that Bouchard thoroughly explores is quantum physics in combination with war,the global order, geostrategy, shifting national boundaries, and the role of covert intelligence in it all.
Crew and Natalia don’t have simple character arcs where they fall in love and live forever after. There’s no time for that. Instead, the duo uses Natalia’s dreams to project into the future, trying to prevent a global catastrophe. With this motive, Bouchard has woven quantum physics beautifully into the story.
But we must ask ourselves – is all this fiction, or is it true?
If interested in distribution, please email Sydney Wray, c.e.o., The Run Productions (Runproductions19@gmail.com) or agent Odette@boundlessbooks4all.com.
About Soul Ties of Spies
Target audience: age 18+. No of pages: 260. 60,000+ words. Rights: sold to Romania and Russia. Global distribution desired.
Coming soon
Ascension (book number two in the Natalia’s Game trilogy)
Natalia ascends to the top of the world of spying, exceeding the skill of her mentor and protector. She becomes the warrior, and Crew takes a step back, overseeing her evolution. Global threats lurk in the shadows, this time involving artificial intelligence as a weapon and a new and dangerous psychedelic drug distributed by the GAUL terrorist organisation in partnership with cartels worldwide. This drug tames the mind and users lose the desire to fight. Natalia confronts Alina and the rogue forces with help from Crew’s first love, Nora, and their long-lost daughter. The world’s future lies now in these powerful women’s hands. The love story moves to a higher plane as Crew and Natalia produce the child predicted in the first novel.
Eternal Foundation (book three in the Natalia’s Game trilogy; year of completion: 2024-2025)
The battle moves to an alternative dimension/parallel universe in this final trilogy book. After developing the skill to switch between alternative dimensions, Crew spends most of his time exploring new worlds and protecting their unique creatures and cultures. Natalia takes centre stage caught between focusing on raising their prodigy daughter, Chanel, and protecting the world from villains who gain control of artificial intelligence. Female characters take centre stage in the battle between good and evil in the final frontier.
About the author
Craig Bouchard is a New York Times bestselling a author. His last book, The Caterpillar Way, reached number one on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list and number seven and eight in two New York Times bestseller categories. Kalani Games converted Mr Bouchard’s YA novel, The Adventures of Ai, into a video game that achieved 300,000 downloads worldwide. Profits made from the video game benefitted children’s charities around the world. Craig Bouchard (ctbwriter@gmail.com, www.CraigBouchard.com) has featured on Forbes, CNBC, Fox, NBC and Bloomberg.
