Back on May 28 I mentioned someone finally reviewed Another Chance on Amazon and they brought up an interesting idea about a sequel that would give Sherman, the villain of the book, some redemption.
It got me thinking of a different approach to a sequel than I had previously been thinking. First, some background. In Another Chance, conman Vince is changed into a young Indian woman named Vinaya and tasked by Sherman and his shadowy government agency known as CHANCE to steal a mechanical "gland" that produces nanobots allowing someone to change his/her appearance, gender, etc. But instead of stealing it, Vinaya falls in love with its inventor and they wind up going on the run from CHANCE until ultimately Vinaya is able to stop them. Sherman had framed Vinaya for a bank robbery and so when Sherman is captured, Vinaya gives him some of the drug he gave Vince. Sherman also turns into a young Indian woman who looks enough like Vinaya that no one really notices the difference and so he (now she) takes the rap for Vinaya's crimes, allowing Vinaya to have a clean slate.
At the end, Vinaya is reunited with an old girlfriend who's the founder of CHANCE, who wants her help in cleaning up the organization and undoing the damage Sherman did.
So the basic idea for the sequel is that a particularly nasty former CHANCE agent has lately been causing trouble with bombings, assassinations, and whatnot. Every time Vinaya and her compatriots get close, the agent escapes. Finally Vinaya goes to the prison where Sherman resides and they make a deal: in exchange for helping them nab the bad guy, Sherman gets a new face, and eventually gets to go free. She reluctantly accepts the deal.
And then to escape Sherman is injected with some nanobots or whatever and becomes a different woman. For a few years Sherman has been a woman, but she has never really been a normal woman as she's spent her entire female life in prison, so there are some adjustments she has to make. And she tries to escape a couple of times, but in the end she and Vinaya catch the bad guy and maybe Sherman falls in love with someone and decides to turn over a new leaf and so on.
1 comment:
Interesting. I like the part about Sherman never having been a woman while not in jail. Perhaps at first Sherman only agrees so she can get out of jail. Then, as the story goes on, she eventually turns over that new leaf.
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