STALKER7

Novels, novellas, short stories in assorted genres: Military Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy, a Celtic Ghost Story, plus a handful of stand-alone Near-Future shorts.

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ESHU INTERNATIONAL SERIES

It’s 2059 and the North Korean mercenary Tam Song heads up Eshu International: a private security team that will take any job for the right price, no questions asked. Based in the Belfast Metro Zone, they’re the best black contract outfit on the planet.

Stable nano-technology: the melding of man and machine on a microscopic level. It’s a break-through worth billions no one’s been able to achieve. Until now. The Dawson Hull Conglomerate has finally developed a viable Nanotech Neural Network; an interface system that exponentially increases a person’s cyber-capabilities. They’re days away from unveiling the prototype to the world.

And Eshu International just got hired to steal it.

What’s the first rule of a gunfight? Bring a bigger gun.

Hired to end a vicious civil war, Eshu International’s job is simple: infiltrate the rebel SPLM army, kill the radical commander, Professor Harun Abdul Hamid, then get back to Belfast to enjoy the payday.

But nothing is ever that easy. New enemies stalk the battlefield while old ones seek revenge. Tam, Jace, Poet9 and the Triplets face Somali pirates, child soldiers, rival mercenaries, killer drones… and it’s just the beginning.

Shift Tense. Book Two of the action-packed Eshu International series, compiling the previously published novellas ‘Red Flags’, ‘Soldier Dreams’, and ‘Angels’ into one volume.

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THE CLAR1TY WARS

WAR IS COMING TO THE STREETS OF DROP CITY.

For nearly a century the Orbital Corporation Pfizer-Teva has supplied the leading citizens of Drop City with Clar1ty: a potent and effective cerebral enhancer. Hailed as a miracle of modern science, its use has catapulted the planet to untold heights of wealth and power.

There is a dark side to the wonders. Behind the scenes, Pfizer-Teva leverages the supply to influence government policy, manipulate financial markets, and ruthlessly eliminate dissent. Clar1ty insures the entire Kepler22 system remains dominated by the Orbital Corporations.

There are those who believe its hold must be broken. At all cost.

This morning, seven Clar1ty addicts were found bled out in an abandoned warehouse, the beautiful fence who handled the black market shipment woke up framed for murder, and somebody tried to assassinate fifteen government officials.

War is coming, and these are snapshots from the crossfire.

The Clar1ty analog nearly perfected, the shadow war between the Founding Corporations and the national Du-li Independence movement spills into the streets.

Hunted by Corporate Security, Seeb Gilani is hidden by the Triads, but is it really for her own protection? Detectives Lynch and Sarin are following a trail of bodies that’s growing longer and more suspicious by the hour. As they close in on a major lead, coordinated terrorist attacks leave Drop City reeling.

Proxy soldiers, cyber-war, a planet-wide blockade, martial law across Drop City, enigmatic TTA Agents, autonomous drones…

The fight for the Kepler22 system has begun and thousands will be caught in the crossfire.

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SHATTERED WORLDS

“Cry, cry the world has gone. Bone and ash and splintered rune.
Who will weep for all that’s lost beneath the broken moon?”

The war of the gods is over. Stars exploded, oceans boiled, continents broke, millions perished. But the end did not come.

Addas Dashag is an outcast, a half-breed scavenger forced into an expedition crossing a land fused with the fragments of a hundred war-ravaged worlds, crawling with the feral scraps of the dead gods’ armies. The journey has just begun but already Addas has to wonder if the real danger isn’t among the expedition’s members.

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A CELTIC-FLAVORED GHOST STORY (NOVELLA)

Treasure hunting in an ancient forest, Paddy and Declan dig up a gold locket, but when a murdered girl’s ghost appears and townsfolk start dying, their dream of easy money vanishes. Rumors of black magic, bloody murder, and a Queen’s conspiracy all swirl into a nightmare that draws everyone to its dark heart.

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STANDALONE SHORTS

In the 22nd century, the ethnic Uyghur in Western China still dream of independence. Decades of discrimination, surveillance, and repressive policies by the Chinese government have only strengthened their resolve. Frustrated with the separatists, Beijing enacts a final solution: the forcible deportation of all dissidents to Mèng Tiān, a desolate mining colony in the Kepler system, five hundred light years from Earth.

When the relocation program backfires and a full-scale insurgency erupts, the elite operators of Zombie Six arrive as part of the U.N.E. Peacekeeper force. Ordered to kill or capture the Uyghur leadership, the team finds itself in a deadly crossfire of corruption, deceit, and drone-borne IEDs. To survive, Zombie Six must first remember Truth is still the first casualty of war.

Global Jihad is on the rise and the veteran spec-ops team Echo One races to stop a terror attack in the American heartland.

NATO units caught in a massive Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltics find themselves on a historic battlefield. Exhausted, out gunned, and out numbered, they must decide if some history is worth repeating.

In the not-too-distant future, a combat-scarred veteran returns to a broken nation and finds himself in ugly company.

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TALES FROM THE ZONE (SHORT STORIES)

Zone guide Yuri Bonyev escorts three scientists to an uncharted sector in the Zone chasing rumors of an old military bunker. Not everyone is who they appear to be and Yuri learns perhaps some secrets are better left buried.

Yuri Bonyev enters the Zone once again, this time guiding Russian mobsters on a search for prime real estate inside the most heavily quarantined region on the planet. But the Zone operates by different rules than the streets of Moscow or Vladivostok, so will these newcomers respect its ways, or will they be weighed in its scales and found wanting?

More important, what will Yuri have to pay for their ignorance?