Monitors

by Darrell Bain
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Publish Date: April 06, 2006
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In the future, Monitors are stronger, smarter and longer-lived than normal humans. They also have a sex drive much higher and more versatile than other people. Monitors face constant danger when they infiltrate and observe various cultures for possible violations of The Articles Of Hegemony. When Janet Presley became a Monitor, she never expected to wind up investigating a planet where females outnumbered males ten to one, and yet were completely subjugated. Nor did she ever think she would have to pose as a sex slave in order to save her life and that of her libido-enhanced companions. The long trip to Arrowhead is enjoyable, with six highly sexed Monitors aboard ship, but as they discover exactly what they're getting into, Janet knows the fun and games will end very shortly, perhaps ending her life as well. The male dominated society of Arrowhead is determined to resist incorporation into the empire by the only means possible; they will see to it that the Monitors vanish forever. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Darrell Bain

Over the last several years, Darrell Bain has become one of the top best selling authors in the world in the realm of electronic publishing. Most of Bain's books are also in print. He produces a monthly newsletter, discoursing on various subjects brought up by fans or by his own voracious reading habit, written in an informal, narrative style. It is available around the first of each month from his web site at www.darrellbain.com

Darrell is the author of more than two dozen books in many genres, running the gamut from humor to mystery and science fiction to non-fiction. For the last several years he has concentrated on science fiction and suspense/thrillers, with an occasional foray into humor and short stories. Some of his most memorable titles are The Sex Gates, Savage Survival, Alien Infection, The Melanin Apocalypse, Strange Valley, The Pet Plague trilogy and the Williard Brothers series.

Darrell served 13 years in the military and his two stints in Vietnam formed the basis for his first published novel, Medics Wild, and the sequels featuring the zany Williard brothers, where the latest book has brought them up to their present day exploits. Darrell has been writing off and on all his life but really got serious about it only after the advent of computers. He purchased his first one in 1989 and has been writing furiously ever since.

While Darrell was working as a lab manager at a hospital in Texas, he met his wife Betty. He trapped her under a mistletoe sprig and they were married a year later. Darrell and Betty operated a Christmas tree farm in East Texas for many years, which became the subject and backdrop for many of his humorous stories and books.

The Bain family consists of he and his wife Betty and their dachshunds, Tonto and Susie, along with Velcro the cat. They still live on the site of their Christmas tree farm, though it is no longer in business. Darrell is a full time writer now and Betty is retired. They spend most of their leisure time reading.

Mail to Darrell Bain can be addressed to him from his web site, www.darrellbain.com

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Posted October 31, 2009 by Brian Bartz, Clear Lake

If you're looking for a beach read, it's OK. On the Sci Fi side, no really new or exciting concepts here. On the "porn side", it's fairly pedestrian stuff. After I read through a few of the sex scenes, I pretty much skipped the rest of them. For me, the big flaw was the bogus motivation of the main villain. If you're bored, and looking to pass some time, fine. Otherwise...

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Double Dragon Publishing
Publish Date

April 06, 2006
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ebook only
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9781554042777
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Double Dragon Publishing
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Excerpt from Monitors by Darrell Bain

One of the downsides to being a Monitor is the lack of a family life. One of the upsides is the orientation and training. After you've been through it, there's not much you can't do-or won't do, if the job demands it. Not that you always enjoy everything, but you learn. And some things you wouldn't have imagined you would like turn out to be not that bad once you've tried it a few times. Occasionally, they even get to be downright enjoyable. In fact '

Take sex, for instance. The Orientation and Monitor training increases the sex drive way beyond that of normal people. That can be either a plus or minus, but it's almost always a positive development. I grew up as a normal heterosexual girl and given a choice, I'll take a man over a woman most of the time, but I've learned to enjoy being in bed with women, too. It's fun for a change and can be quite stimulating and enjoyable, even tremendously pleasurable with the right woman. Or even the wrong one, to an extent. The orientation teaches us to accept whatever comes and make the most of it while we're observing and setting the stage for possible intervention by the Hegemony.

Before being posted to Arrowhead, I was between assignments and enjoying a fling with another agent, Erik Jovelin. Erik isn't a big hunk, but I like him. He's a good-looking man, even if he isn't a lot bigger than me; I'm five six and he's only five eleven. He has short, wavy brown hair and a slender, well-muscled body. He would have made a good-looking woman if he had been born female. But I like him as he is. This wasn't even our first affair; we had been together once before. When you live a long time, events have a habit of repeating themselves.

What I like most about Erik is his easy acceptance of the type of woman I am. He knows how quirky I can be; how changeable; how I like to be the dominant one in bed a lot of the time.