NOVELS
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THE BLACK CELL
(VIRION Series book 1)
TO BREATHE IS CERTAIN DEATH. EARTH IS NOW HELL. EARTH IS HOME. EARTH HAS CHANGED…
Earth has been plagued with an ancient virus for centuries, killing any who breathe the unfiltered air. When an alien scientist finds that a cure is miraculously within reach, she and her staff are killed and the research destroyed by a secretive group of elite commandos.
A disgraced Martian detective is given a second chance when he's recruited to investigate, but when he finds corruption within powerful corporations, nightmarish mutants prowling the streets, and lawlessness in the undercity depths, his path to redemption will be challenged as his buried past resurfaces.
Will the Martian detective find those responsible who stole the cure in time to thwart a viral outbreak of ghoulish mutations? Find out in this debut novel, The Black Cell, Volume One in the Virion series, offering the fantastic blend of a sci-fi dystopia, mystery, action, and thriller!
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
(virion series book 2)
DOZENS OF BOUNTY HUNTERS, A DEADLY UNDERGROUND SYNDICATE, A VIRAL PLAGUE OF NIGHTMARISH MUTANTS… ALL AGAINST “THE DEMON OF MARS”. AN EVEN FIGHT…
Earth Marshal Alan McKenna's investigation to find the Golden Bough detours when he apprehends a notorious hacker and tabloid nightcrawler, The Mad Black Hatter, whom informs him that the largest bounty in centuries has just landed on his head, paid by the Golden Bough itself. The hacker has connections to the Hasker Syndicate, a ring of illegal undercity information brokers that will aid him in uncovering the Golden Bough's illusive leader, for a price.
Hot on the trail of the mysterious starfighters that attacked the Earth Naval blockade, Sky Marshal Henry Stoker takes his search to Shanghai to find the fighter wing may have ties to the Tianlong Group, the largest aerospace defense contractor in the system. When he gets too close, the Golden Bough's leader, known only by his alias The Commander, retaliates against the Sky Marshal.
The Commander remains hidden as he plots with bio-industrial giant ValiantCorp, funding research into his cure for the Black Cell while also securing an alliance with the notorious undercity gang, Wargame and with Naval commitment from Tianlong, he is laying his pieces for something sinister, but for what? To attack Earth? Or another entity entirely?
Only McKenna can find out, but will he apprehend the Commander before it's too late? Or will Earth be left to another fate? Find out in The Golden Bough.
THE BLOODLUST
(BOOK 3 of the VIRION SERIES)
ILLEGAL GAMES. A DEADLY SYNDICATE. A DETECTIVE’S BLOODLUST. SURVIVING THE UNDERCITY IS ONE THING. BUT EMERGING SANE? ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY…
Knee deep in the lawless and brutal depths of the undercity, McKenna enrolls into The Red Sector Games, the most coveted illegal broadcasting of festivities in the Solar System. Hosted by the legendary information broker, Jan Hasker, the winner of The Games shall be awarded any piece of information, even that which Hasker has deemed blacklisted through use of an ancient relic from the 21st Century, The Harpocrates Cube and likewise, the supposed source of the Syndicate’s power through information.
McKenna is aided by The Mad Black Hatter, an enigmatic hacker and the once-ally of Hasker. Also at his side is the sociopathic Automatic Infantry Bot, Humphries, recently awakened by McKenna by accident after hundreds of years. And lastly, Detective Dill Roberts, McKenna's apprehensive but loyal Adjutant.
Together, they will enter three challenges. Sol-Fate, a high stakes card game reserved only for the wealthiest and witty of citizens. Warp-One, a race of speed demons utilizing blisteringly fast and unstable warp bikes. And lastly, the Martian himself will enter the Red Fields, an evolving martial arts tournament that will see bone and sinew clash.
Little does the team know, each of their hidden pasts has followed them down into the undercity, and may cost them their victories, if not their lives. McKenna is one step closer to finding the identity of the Commander, but can he survive The Games? Find out in The Bloodlust.
THE PERDITION
(BOOK 4 of the VIRION SERIES)
MCKENNA'S WAR THE GOLDEN BOUGH, FREEDOM CITY, AND HIMSELF WILL PROVE WHAT FEW HAVE DISCOVERED: BEING HUMAN WILL KILL YOU
Elliot Draeger, once an Earth Federation scientist, was once motivated by curing the Black Cell. As a man of science, there was no solution he could not pursue in the name of human betterment. Now, years later, he has emerged as The Commander with a burning hatred for the Revente. Now he has created a new prize, Renatus, a genetically selective cure to the Black Cell, and he will risk everything to protect it. Armed with a deadly alliance with the notorious undercity gang Wargame, the naval might of the Tianlong Group, and the confidence of an ancient Order, Draeger aims to spark an uprising with the goal of uniting Earth against the Revente, Earth already sharing an animosity with the spacefaring species.
After being blackballed by the Earth Council, McKenna invokes the Seventh Mandate, the secret directive of an Earth Marshal to break all established laws in order to preserve the greater good, and uses it to hunt Draeger with the full force of Interpol's ISTF Division. But unknown to him, Draeger is calculated, experienced, and blinded by vision while McKenna is tranced with correcting a past that cannot be undone. An idea has poisoned them both and nothing will stop them from meeting their fates.
McKenna makes a final attempt to fulfill the wish of his dead lover, to be more than human. But in a world where such ideas kill the innocent and make villains of individuals, will McKenna save Freedom City from the grips of a new plague fueled insurrection, or become what he promised never to be? The conclusion to the Virion series ends in The Perdition.
THE SCREAMING VILLAGE
(a virion novel)
RETURN TO THE DYSTOPIAN CYBER-NOIR WORLD OF VIRION WITH A NEW STANDALONE ENTRY THAT PITS SCIENCE AGAINST THE SUPERNATURAL…
Further explore the virus infected atmosphere of Earth circa 2475 and the war stricken Solar System and its colonies to ultimately discover a plot stretching millennia. New characters, locations, and darker themes will be revealed further questioning the human species and their provocative alien counterparts, the Revente.
One month after the an insurrectionist uprising, terror has once more fallen upon the Earth super metropolis of Freedom City. In the darkest and maze ridden alleyways of the city, Earth Council Marshal, Alan McKenna, discovers a trail of grizzly murders, their corpses desecrated in sinister manner. When the battle-hardened Marshal tracks down the sinister killer, he is hunted for merely laying eyes on her and barely escapes her maniacal onslaught.
McKenna discovers she is waging a secret war against a rogue naval black ops division, dubbed by the disbanded Earth Federation as the Paranormal Division. Caught in between the conspiracy, McKenna faces seemingly supernatural foes he cannot best, unless he can awaken the latent abilities of a dormant virus flowing through his own blood. Science Fiction Horror at it's finest, action at its peak, return to the dark world of the Virion series.
REPLICATION
(virion series book five)
COMING SOON…
IN 2479, A WRAITH-LIKE SHADOW LOOMS OVER EARTH…
4 years have passed since a rogue agent of an elusive organization shook the planet to its core with a destructive insurrection. While Earth remained united and won, the event has emboldened nefarious groups and even the citizenry, radicalizing ideologies of technology, religion, and xenophobia. Private armies seek to privatize Earth‘s security, pushing aside the archaic police forces of old. And undercity gangs that once battled each other for sole dominance over city blocks are now forming alliances for control over entire sectors.
When an Earth Councilor is murdered in the sanctum of Freedom Spire, the investigation attracts the aide and attention of the Revente’s highest and most elite investigators of the Holy Inquisition. Answering only to the Revente Elders of the High Towers and bound only by their code, once judgement is ruled, the fate of the judged is guaranteed. However, this is no mystery or investigation, but a manhunt. For the suspect is none other than veteran Martian turned legend, Council Marshal and savior of Freedom City, Alan McKenna.
Coming soon….