Bob Miller's Books
Five novels in The Chrysalis Chronology, Inc. series
and the memory training series, starting with Remember The Room
The Smart Kid
Read about the never-ending pursuit of Michael Shale. Book 1 of The Chrysalis Chronology series. Available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon
Plot
The Smart Kid by Bob Miller
The Never-Ending Pursuit of Michael Shale.
Michael Shale (aka Matthew Janson) discovered he’s not like everyone else. And, eventually, so did the powerful and arrogant Senator Perkins, head of a secret military committee, who will stop at nothing to find Michael, who has a unique biology that could be used for military purposes.
Michael hides as a student because he can. But the counselor is prodding into his history and the truth will be revealed.
The truth about his genetics, his family, his true identity, his time as a military lab rat.
He’d rather die than be captured again.
But can Michael, the counselor, and a secret person from his past really fight back against a corrupt politician working for a shadowy ancient organization?
A novel with a unique structure
• First half is a mystery. Second half is a thriller • Not a YA story • Set in the 1960s & 70s
˃˃˃ It’s a genre-crossing novel
The Smart Kid is a Mystery-SciFi-Thriller
Part political thriller. Part mystery. A touch of science fiction.
The Time Leaper
Like a chess game through time, Tim Long fights against a stronger time-leaping opponent. Book 2 in The Chrysalis Chronology series. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle.
Plot
The Power of Time Travel: A gift or a curse?
After discovering he has the power of Chronesthesia, or Mental Time-Travel, Tim Long is hired by a mysterious company to send messages to the past. He’s making so much money he doesn’t care about the questionable ethics of his tasks until he becomes responsible for several deaths.
To protect his new girlfriend, his family, and the entire Physics Building at the university from destruction, he must weave through time, arranging pieces in a life and death chess game against an unknown futuristic opponent.
But trying to escape from a company that can manipulate the past is as difficult for Tim as overcoming his own self-doubts and dysfunctional family history. Under the threats of attacks, explosions, and death, Tim, and a surprise associate, must find a way to avoid Fatal Termination by a company from which nothing can be hidden.
The Proxy Agent
Val can become anyone as a proxy agent for the evil company, XXi. Filled with intrigue and action, The Proxy Agent is available in paperback or Kindle formats on Amazon.
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A Thrilling Fight Against a Secretive Company
Valentino Harris has a secret power.
He can push his consciousness into another person’s body and wear it like a costume, making them do whatever he wants. It’s a secret only his girlfriend knows about. So, as a rebellious teenager, he uses his special power to take revenge on mean classmates and disrupt his hated History class by taking over the teacher’s body.
For 18 years he’s been angry that his unknown father abandoned him before he was born. So, when a secretive company learns of his power and offers him a new car and lots of money to use his powers for their own evil agenda, he’s happy to oblige.
But after helping the company to spy, steal, and kill, he begins to question his goals. Working for the company also takes a personal toll on his relationship with his mother and with his girlfriend.
When he learns this evil company is the source of his special powers and may be the reason his father is missing, he decides to escape their control.
But Chrysalis Chronology would rather kill than allow a rogue employee to quit.
The Proxy Agent is a thrilling adventure of a young man in 1990, searching for his own personal identity while he interchanges his life with strangers only to finally discover answers in his rejected past.
The Sleep Traveler
Why is the father of Valentino Harris, from book 4, working as a care-taker for comatose patients in an underground bunker? It is Available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.
Plot
In 1971, Nick Reisender loses thousand of dollars gambling against a Chicago thug who’s become dangerously tired of waiting for payment. In desperation, Nick cons his way into a high-paying job overseeing “Sleep Travelers” encased in cryogenic pods for a fifty-year journey. He only has to live underground for a year maintaining the archaic technology in an air-sealed chamber. Then he’ll have plenty of money to pay off his debts and purchase a big house for him and his new girlfriend, Joy.
As Nick discovers the truth about the health of the so-called “travelers” in his care and the reason his friend has been absent for five months, his life-support fails.
When he wakes up staring into the eyes of the beautiful nurse Lucia, he’ll have to use all his gambling and cold-reading skills to see through her deceptions, and escape the murderous threats of her boss, KK MacBride, and unravel the multi-leveled mystery of the underground community of Chrysalis Chronology, Inc.
Will Nick soon escape the dangerous hospitality of the evil son-of-a-Founder, MacBride, and see Joy again, or will it take him a lifetime?
Chrysalis Chronology, Inc.
It’s the final book in the 5-book series. From 1931 to 2050, all the characters from the previous books join forces to fight against XXi. Available in paperback format on Amazon, soon.
Plot
Angel Wainright’s world is turned upside down when she discovers her grandfather is the leader of an evil company with origins starting in a future timeline in 2050 and reaching all the way back to 1931. Chrysalis Chronology, Inc. has one simple goal: Control the world and everyone it it through secret subversive manipulation and the threat of dying a horrific death when they release their Bone Petrification Disease.
Remember The Room
Anyone with average memory can apply these techniques to lock names to faces. It is available on Amazon in paperback, Kindle, or Audible formats
The goal isn't memory, it's connections!
You don’t need a great memory to remember the names of twenty or more prospects, customers, or strangers you just met. All you need is a great imagination. Through fast stories, short lessons, and interesting anecdotes, Bob Miller, teaches how to lock names to faces using his three step method:
Look! Listen! Link!.
Anyone who meets new people regularly can benefit from this book and learn how to build trust and strong business and personal relationships through name recall.