Second Chance - LaHaye, Jude

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Résumé :
Chance Bonner awakens one morning shouting out the name of a fictional-and alien -character he had invented in a story he had written months before. In his short story, the character had been his unknown twin brother. His outburst is witnessed by one of the denizens of his psyche, who protects this knowledge, instinctively knowing that this event is not borne from Chance's imagination, but in fact, arises from his awesome intuition: Chance must have a twin somewhere in this world. As an unsuspecting Chance descends the stairs from his bedroom to his kitchen, he is totally unaware that the creatures residing in his own mind have now targeted his mother as his weak link. They strive to undermine her self-confidence-and her Buddhist faith. Their goal? To use Nan Bonner, Chance's mother, to undermine Chance's own confidence and courage. Join us in another epic battle between Chance Bonner and the elemental forces, both internal and universal, which strive to destroy his happiness...and his future. In this episode something huge is introduced: chaos.

Biographie:
Jude LaHaye enjoyed a career spanning twenty-five years before ever turning his hand to writing. He worked hard, always putting in extra hours and effort, as an Army and then a DoD Logistician, blaming his day job for his inability to become a writer.And then he got his chance: he jumped on an opportunity for an early retirement from civil service.It was hard. That first book took him almost two years, at the end of which he questioned his life-long ambition to become an author.But it also broke something loose. After struggling over that first book, he now writes fluidly, finishing as many as three books in any given year.LaHaye lives a solitary life, preferring his own company to that of others, living and creating predominately in his head, and then putting many of those ideas down on paper to become the backbones of his novels.He has a wife, Liz, who is as extroverted as he is introverted. She is his inspiration for some of his more outgoing and optimistic characters.His four children are all as different from one another as they can be, providing yet more inspiration for good, bad-or simply weird.LaHaye and his family live on an island in Washington State on the Puget Sound, where they enjoy fauna, flora, and majestic views of forests, mountains, and ocean.