Zone Legends

Chapter 5 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 5. ZONE LEGENDS The Zone run came together fast. There were palms to grease, papers to forge, patrol and drone schedules to get, but Oleg had it all done in forty-eight hours. He’d even managed to keep Major Yushinko from getting wind of it. Savak was […]

A North Korean Hand Grenade

Chapter 4 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 4. A NORTH KOREAN HAND GRENADE Oleg’s idea was simple: Savak needed an artifact. A real one. Not one of the irradiated railroad ties they bent and magnetized to sell to tourists or reporters. This had to be a genuine specimen, something exotic to display behind […]

Nicknames

Chapter 3 of another tale from the Exclusion Zone 3. NICKNAMES The next night, Savak looked over the floor of the Bad Habits and could practically hear money flowing into his pockets. A Friday night, a payday, the bar was packed with off-duty security and Institute pencil necks all knocking back drinks and eyeing […]

Ground Floor Opportunity

2. GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY Midnight on empty roads, the drive back to town was a tunnel of headlights and memories. Savak had arrived right after the first Incident five years earlier. On the run from Bratva debt collectors and puking out the tail end of meth addiction, Anton had found him shivering and starved in […]

Gopnik Blues

The start of another tale from the Exclusion Zone ONE: THE GOPNIK BLUES Savak Tul lit a cigarette and headed toward the noise coming from the rear of the garage. He dragged deep, filled his mouth and lungs with smoke, then exhaled through his nose the way he’d seen in an American gangster movie. Halfway […]

Fiction Interrupt

Quick pause in Hobby stuff to let people know I’m serializing a cyberpunk crime story. Set in Hardwired’s fictional mega-city of New Kowloon, you can find it over at my writer’s site: Hot Space Station Justice. Or click the links below. Thanks. Current title ‘Soul Cache’, an aging detective steps outside the law and risks […]

Cover Reveal

The adventures of Yuri Bonyev continue. Coming soon.

A Prayer to Saint Strelok

Now available for pre-order at Amazon. Release date: 16 December. St. Strelok at Amazon Spasibo!

Another Short Story on the way.

A near-future mil-action short about NATO units caught in a massive Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltics. (It’s fiction, right?) Doing the final proof read now. It should be available at Amazon end of the week. Have a good day.