Pandora Driver
It was the 1930s The avarice of the elite had plunged the country into the Great Depression Class warfare was being waged, and someone was about to snap Young Betty McDougal discovered how hard life could be when her family was evicted from their farm and forced to live in a Citadel City shelter They struggled to survive It was a time of desperation, sin, mistakes and lessons Betty didn t want to learn Her life felt pointless until a mysterious stranger delivered her an ominous black car It transformed her.Pandora Driver was the relentless avenger of the common man sifting right from wrong in a realm where the villains were the local gentry and the heroes were outlaws Pandora was a mistress of disguise who used sly audacity and an unstoppable Car of Tomorrow to unleash chaos into the halls of wealth and power She infiltrated the unscrupulous rulers of Citadel City and adopted their unsavory methods to usurp them Her fight was the fight of the ages She was the fist of the people battling greed, graft, inequality, and exploitation Her time was in the past, but the problems were the same blights facing society today.She intervened when law enforcement or the justice system failed citizens Sometimes her methods were unsettling Battling sin in the filth where it resides can dirty even the purest hearts The good old days we remember in monochrome were lived in color In a time when good and evil was simply black and white, Pandora lived in the gray area.Pandora Driver The Origin, summons the spirits of pulps past into a retro hero tale for mature readers It ain t Shakespeare It s pure Pulp Read Part 01 online or download a free preview from most ebookstores. Read Pandora Driver – kino-fada.fr A champion for the 99%The pulp radio serials of the 1930 s grew in part as a response to the Great Depression, offering escape, adventure and fantasy far removed from the drudgery and hardship of everyday life Most importantly, they provided people with heroes champions of truth and justice, fighting for what was right at a time when everything seemed wrong Ho...Perseverance Lipstick Feminism Revenge A delectable recipe for an uncommon heroine As a woman I found myself in awe and disgust of what Pandora Driver was willing to do to accomplish her mission Yet, I couldn t put this ebook down for long Looking forward to her second adventure.Pandora Driver The Origin takes us back to the days of the pulps, but infuses it with a modern feminist theme, and also some topical economic concerns The setting is Citadel City, a place clearly modeled on Chicago during the mid thirties, in a world that could be ours everything feels almost the same, with the exception of some interesting Dieselpunk style technology that s the creation of a lone, renegade inventor The main character, Betty McDougal, is a sweet farm girl from the sticks Pandora Driver The Origin takes us back to the days of the pulps, but infuses it with a modern feminist theme, and also some topical economic concerns The setting is Citadel City, a place clearly modeled on Chicago during the mid thirties, in a world that could be ours everything feels almost the same, with the exception of some interesting Dieselpunk style technology that s the creation of a lone, renegade inventor The main character, Betty McDougal, is a sweet farm girl from the sticks who has her farm, her job, her home, and finally her parents taken away from her by an uncaring financial combine namely, the fat cat crooks who run busines...The Silver Age of pulp superheroes is back John Picha s Pandora Driver The Origin is a high speed chase through a black and white landscape of good and evil set in Depression era America, where angelic farm girl Betty falls from grace and trades her halo for righteous vengeance on the forces of greed and corruption in the glittering lights of Citadel City.Betty s story is told in stark contrasts as hard times force her family from the farm to the heartless city, and Betty is forced to make e The Silver Age of pulp superheroes is back John Picha s Pandora Driver The Origin is a high speed chase through a black and white landscape of good and evil set in Depression era America, where angelic farm girl Betty falls from grace and trades her halo for righteous vengeance on the forces of greed and corruption in th...This ePulp is really 4 episodes in one Part 1 of this origin story flows like a Biography Channel episode introducing us to a relentless super heroine operating in pre WWII American It trims the fat and takes us through the seminal moments in the life of a vulnerable country girl who s seduced, swallowed and degraded by a city corrupted to the core Then she s excreted and reborn.The rest is uncensored pulp action that whirlpools around a complicated moral puzzle at the center In Part 2 she m This ePulp is really 4 episodes in one Part 1 of this origin story flows like a Biography Channel episode introducing us to a relentless super heroine operating in pre WWII American It trims the fat and takes us through the seminal moments in the life of a vulnerable country girl who s seduced, swallowed and degraded by a city corrupted to the core Then she s excreted and reborn.The rest is uncensored pulp action that whirlpools around a complicated moral puzzle at the center In Part 2 she makes deals with an unl...A very engaging read I kept marveling at all the seemingly disparate things that were referenced within the story and how they connected and collided to shape something so visceral This is a complex story that collects moments, mistakes, decisions, lessons, and 2 kinds of luck in the life of a young woman then rough hews them into something unique In this case it s a Pandora Driver.She pulls out all the stops to get back what is rightfully hers She is tirelessly relentless and willing to use A very engaging read I kept marveling at all the seemingly disparate things that were referenced within the story and how they connected and collided to sh...Raw dieselpunk noire excitement and flavor That is what comes to mind when I think of what I ve just read.Pandora Driver is a wonderful view of a vanished age that might have been.Without spoilers, let me say John Picha delivers a tale of Betsy, a young woman tested at every turn and apparently doomed.Detailed, vivid action sequences are balanced with bitter sweet episodes of torment and degradation Through it all, our realistically portrayed heroine never surrenders.Little touches, such as me Raw dieselpunk noire excitement and flavor That is what comes to mind when I think of what I ve just read.Pandora Driver is a wonderful view of a vanished age that might have been.Without spoilers, let me say John Picha delivers a tale of Betsy, a young woman tested at every turn and apparently doomed.Detailed, vivid action sequences are balanced with bitter sweet episodes of torment and deg...Forget Occupying Wall StreetPandora Driver runs big business off the road and kicks it square in the teeth Drawing inspiration from classic comic book super heroes, bathed in the harsh back lighting of film noir, Pandora takes us from the smokey backrooms of hopping speakeasies to the gilded opulence of dusty boardrooms Truly a new pulp heroine plucked from the ranks of the proletariat, Pandora rises up from the gutter to defend those who can ill afforded ...In one way the main character is like a Batgirl gone bad and comes a little unhinged pursuing what she sees as justice In another way, Pandora is a good samaritan who slides in and out of stranger s lives performing good deeds, but with a catch To the ruling class of the city, she is a nightmare behind the wheel of a big , indestructible car.The story is set during the great depression and the golden age of comic and pulp magazines It s paced like a comicbook and there are a lot of neat li In one way the main character is like a Batgirl gone bad and comes a little unhinged pursuing what she sees as justice In another way, Pandora is a good samaritan who s...
- English
- 14 November 2017 John Picha
- ebook
- 223 pages
- John Picha
- Pandora Driver