by Tony Healey
Robin ensured their communications relays were activated once again. A member of the Draxx Alliance within the Union Science Sector had told her just how to do it. Now, when the time was right, she would be sure to get a message to her true people.
General Carn would know precisely what to do next. He’d instruct her as to how to proceed. And in the meantime? Commander Teague would lead the hunt for the saboteur, of course. Anything to shine the light on someone else. Perhaps even implicate an Officer she didn’t like in the process, just for kicks.
And of course, following her act of sabotage earlier on that day, she had made precautions to take it a step further if need be. When the engineering crews had vacated their section, the Commander had taken the opportunity to plant a substantial packet of explosives on the reactor itself. If her missions were jeopardized in any way, at least she could end the whole charade in a glorious display of fireworks. There was no way the engineers would detect it, not disguised as it was.
In her bed, in the dark, Robin smiled.
This is only the beginning. Driscoll’s walked right into a trap. He doesn’t know the full scale of what’s going on here. What takes place in the Cluster will decide the War itself. And nothing will stop me in my mission.
She thought of the detonator she’d hidden behind a bulkhead on deck eight, where nobody would find it. A simple device consisting of a battery, transmitter and a big red button. Basic, in every respect. But idealists fighting for a greater good had long ago come to realize that the simplest methods were usually the best. The more complicated something was, the more chances there were at failure.
I have only to press a button, and it’s game over for Driscoll. Game over for all of them…
Tony Healey is a best-selling independent author. In 2011, his fiction was published in an anthology alongside Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster.
In 2012 he saw his sci-fi serial FAR FROM HOME become a best-selling sensation, with each instalment hitting the Top 100 in its category. He also published DARK VISIONS, a collection of his horror fiction.
2013 saw the publication of DEAD PRETTY, a crime novella that has received rave reviews. He also collaborated with best-selling author Bernard Schaffer on a crossover project written in two parts.
Tony Healey is a born and bred Brightonian. He is married and has three daughters.
For the latest on Tony’s various projects, visit his sitewww.tonyhealey.com
Born in a little town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author Tony Healey.
Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it.
He is also fond of cats.
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Virtual Immortality, by Matthew Cox
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Nina Duchenne walked away from a perfect life to pursue a noble idea, but one tragic night shatters her dreams.
Joey Dillon lives on a perpetual adrenaline rush. A self-styled cyber cowboy chasing thrills wherever he can find them, he is unconcerned with what will happen twenty minutes into the future.
Voices from beyond the grave distract Nina from her pursuit of two international terrorists, and send Joey on a mission to find out who is playing games. Joey falls square in her sights with the fate of the entire West City, as well as Nina’s humanity, at risk.
Division Zero, by Matthew Cox
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Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren is not most cops.
Shunned by a society that does not understand psionics and feared by those who know what she can do, Kirsten feels alone in a city of millions.
Unexplained killings by human-like androids known as dolls leave the Division 1 police baffled, causing them to punt the case to Division 0. She tries to hold on to the belief that no one is beyond redemption as she pursues a killer desperate to claim at least one more innocent soul – that might just be hers.
Without Bloodshed (Starbreaker, Book 1), by Matthew Graybosch
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When a dictator’s public allegations make Morgan Stormrider a liability to the Phoenix Society, the Society orders him to prove Alexander Liebenthal a liar — or die in the attempt.
Redeye, by Michael Shean
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Two years have passed since Agent Thomas Walken and Bobbi January found themselves at the heart of a conspiracy of unimaginable greed and cruelty. The Genefex Corporation remains shrouded in mystery and Bobbi January faces a life of unanswered questions, until a mysterious message from one of Walken’s former comrades draws her back onto the trail.
Now, Bobbi will find herself newly equipped to discover the truth – about Walken, about Genefex, and finally, about the Yathi – and the key to unlocking those secrets rests in the hands of a cyborg terrorist known only as Redeye. Drenched in blood and neon, Redeye is a tale of humanity on the edge of a new and terrible reality.
Appetizer:
Book Cover
Copyright & Publisher
Title Page
Main Course:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Dessert:
About the Author: Tony Healey
About the Author: Matthew Cox
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