Download or read book Eight Ways to Kill a Rat written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2022-10-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bart lives in the pressure cooker that’s the Black Hole; a neon-lit hell filled with prostitutes, pimps, and pushers. Muggings, murders, and mods are commonplace, and few earn enough credits to get by, let alone support a family. He gives the best of himself to his dead-end job and despotic boss, yet still only earns enough credits to last five out of the seven days in a week. Each night, he returns exhausted to his dilapidated house to comfort his starving wife and daughter. If only his love could fill the chasm in their stomachs created by his failings. But even in a place like the Black Hole, there are opportunities for those stupid or desperate enough to take them. Drug trials, loan sharks, and gangs all offer the possibility of extra credits. With Bart’s inability to provide sending him and his family on a downward trajectory, maybe he’s both stupid and desperate enough to try something different. And someone has to win in this hellish place, so why not him? Eight Ways to Kill a Rat: Neon Horizon book six is a fast-paced cyberpunk thriller. If you like dazzling neon dystopian landscapes, where entertainments, credits, and the latest street drugs are all worth more than human life, then you’ll love this hard-hitting grimy glimpse into the hyper-cities of the future.

Download or read book The Blind Spot written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COULD YOU BETRAY EVERYONE YOU CARE ABOUT TO PREVENT A WAR? The Blind Spot exists in defiance of Scala City’s dystopian big brother regime. It occupies a small sector in the city, and those who live there believe in their right to privacy. Scala City believe if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. But the Blind Spot have hackers that could bring the larger city to its knees. This is why it’s never spilled over into all-out war. Until now ... A terrorist attack on Scala City’s main plaza has tipped the delicate balance. There is only one person who can halt the conflict before it begins ... Marcie Hugo, daughter of the Blind Spot’s leader, and the district’s best kept secret. Cybernetically enhanced, she’s faster, stronger, and smarter than most. But more importantly, she’s invisible. Protected and hidden away by her father for the majority of her life, she’s in the unique position to move between the Blind Spot and Scala City unnoticed. With the best hacker in the city on her side, and while the rest of the Blind Spot prepares for a bloody war, Marcie gets to work ... To avoid total annihilation, she will have to betray everyone she loves, starting with her father ... And even then, her chances of success are slim ... Join Marcie in a race against time as she turns over every neon-lit inch of Scala City and The Blind Spot in a quest to discover who’s trying to destroy her home and why. And even if she is successful, with the number of ties she’s severed, how much of a life will she have left to return to? The Blind Spot: Neon Horizon book one is a fast-paced cyberpunk thriller. If you like dazzling neon dystopian landscapes, where entertainment, credits, and the latest street drugs are all worth more than human life, then you’ll love this hard-hitting grimy glimpse into the hyper-cities of the future.

Download or read book The Alpha Plague 6 written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vicky saw the corruption in Hugh’s leadership of Home, she stood up to it and overthrew him. She now finds herself helping run the place, taking on responsibilities she’d rather not have. But if she keeps the community safe, she’ll also keep Flynn safe. All Vicky wants is to make sure Flynn’s okay. All she’s done for the past ten years is make sure Flynn’s okay. Now faced with a war with a barbaric neighbouring community, Home has to respond to the threat. As the most experienced fighter, Vicky has to lead the battle. If they don’t win, they’ll all die. The Alpha Plague 6 is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic survival thriller.

Download or read book Mother Knows Best written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accept. Comply. Report. Three simple words that form the contract between Mother and the citizens of Blade Springs. Stick to the contract and Mother provides. She feeds her citizens, houses them, and gives them jobs. She delivers a highly-curated twenty-four hour entertainment cycle to every citizens’ personal screen, generated from the implants at their temples. She reads their tells: A twitch of discomfort. A swelling of love. The slight wince of sorrow. She responds with the content they need. Regulates them with a bespoke narrative. Accept, comply, report, and you’ll never feel misaligned again. Trust in Mother. Mother knows when you need to laugh. When you need to cry. When you need to feel loved. Accept Mother knows best and you’ll never want for anything again. But Renner does want. And no matter how Mother tries, she can’t fill the hole inside him. He knows what it means to be a citizen of Blade Springs. Understands the consequences of breaking the three-word contract. In his head, he can accept, comply, and report. It’s his heart that’s the problem ... Mother Knows Best: Off-Kilter Tales Book Three is a sci-fi short story that looks at screen addiction, societal manipulation, and disconnection in a technology-centric world. This book also contains a bonus short story - The Marshmallow Test.

Download or read book Neon Horizon Books 1 3 A Cyberpunk Thriller written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 1313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COULD YOU BETRAY EVERYONE YOU CARE ABOUT TO PREVENT A WAR? The Blind Spot exists in defiance of Scala City’s dystopian big brother regime. It occupies a small sector in the city, and those who live there believe in the right to privacy. Scala City believe if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. But the Blind Spot have hackers that could bring the larger city to its knees. This is why it’s never spilled over into all-out war. Until now ... A terrorist attack on Scala City’s main plaza has tipped the delicate balance. There is only one person who can halt the conflict before it begins ... Marcie Hugo, daughter of the Blind Spot’s leader, and the district’s best kept secret. Cybernetically enhanced, she’s faster, stronger, and smarter than most. But more importantly, she’s invisible. Protected and hidden away by her father for the majority of her life, she’s in the unique position to move between the Blind Spot and Scala City unnoticed. With the best hacker in the city on her side, and while the rest of the Blind Spot prepares for a bloody war, Marcie gets to work ... To avoid total annihilation, she will have to betray everyone she loves, starting with her father ... And even then, her chances of success are slim ... Join Marcie in a race against time as she turns over every neon-lit inch of Scala City and The Blind Spot in a quest to discover who’s trying to destroy her home and why. And even if she is successful, with the number of ties she’s severed, how much of a life will she have left to return to? Neon Horizon Books 1 - 3 are the first books in a series of fast-paced cyberpunk thrillers. If you like dazzling neon dystopian landscapes, where entertainment, credits, and the latest street drugs are all worth more than human life, then you’ll love this hard-hitting grimy glimpse into the hyper-cities of the future. This box set includes: The Blind Spot - Neon Horizon Book One. Prime City - Neon Horizon Book Two. Bounty Hunter - Neon Horizon Book Three.

Download or read book The Shadow Order Books 1 3 Box Set written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there's a problem in the galaxy no one else can fix, the Shadow Order get a call. A team pulled together because of their individual talents, the Shadow Order have little time for rest as they embark on one dangerous mission after the next, fighting volatile creatures on hostile planets. Although when their goals begin to clash with their morals, they start asking questions. Who are they really working for? What’s the link between the seemingly unrelated missions? Are they the bad guys? Do they even want to know? Read The Shadow Order - Books 1 - 3 - today to join Seb Zodo and his team in a fast-paced planet-hopping space opera saga. Travel with them to distant worlds inhabited by a wide range of volatile species as they move from one war to the next, pulling societies back from the brink. And maybe find out how it’s all connected and if it was all worth it? This box set includes: The Shadow Order The First Mission - Book Two of The Shadow Order The Crimson War - Book Three of The Shadow Order

Download or read book The Girl in the Woods written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you stop if you saw a little girl wandering through the woods at night? Andy did. He's now dead. This is Andy's story. The Girl in the Woods - A Ghost’s Story is the first in a collection of Off-Kilter Tales. It’s a short story about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or the right place at the right time. You decide. What the reviewers are saying: 5 stars - “I read it straight through and couldn’t put it down.” - Amazon customer. 5 stars - “It keeps you reading until you go ... wow!” - Amazon customer. 5 stars - “A brilliant story that takes all of your senses through a horrific experience.” - Amazon customer.

Download or read book The Crimson War written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow Order have completed their first mission. But now Seb has seen how the Crimson Countess oppresses the beings living there, he can’t walk away. Driven by his goal to overthrow the Countess’ regime, Seb has to amass an army capable of taking down the Crimson foot soldiers. An army built on slum dwellers, who have spent their entire lives yielding to their oppressors. Victory will make Solsans a better place to live. However, if they lose, the Countess will undoubtedly make the people pay. Failure isn’t an option. The Crimson War (Book Three of The Shadow Order) is a fast-paced space opera adventure.

Download or read book Reunion written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcie Hugo and Drake Soldado are unusual travel companions united by similar goals. A teenage girl and a man in his thirties. One is returning home to honour a promise, the other needs to find his daughters, which he hasn’t seen for over four years since they were taken from him and sold as slaves. Marcie has promised her best friend and childhood sweetheart that she’ll return from Prime City with the lung transplant he so desperately needs. She plans to make good on that promise. She didn’t plan on falling in love with someone else while she was away. Their reunion might fix his breathing, but will it also break his heart? Drake has to find his two daughters. Daughters he’d forgotten he had until recently. Daughters who have spent the last four years as slaves. To find them, he must penetrate Scala City’s hostile criminal underworld of human traffickers. If he survives and reunites with his little girls, how damaged will they be from the years they've spent apart? What have they endured? Will they even remember him? Neither reunion will be easy, but first they have to reach Scala City and the Blind Spot. Miles of wastelands stand before them. Scores of murderous militia patrol the barren lands. And to top it all off, neither Marcie nor Drake know the way. Reunion: Neon Horizon Book five is a fast-paced cyberpunk thriller. If you like dazzling neon dystopian landscapes, where entertainment, credits, and the latest streets drugs are all worth more than human life, then you’ll love this hard-hitting grimy glimpse into the hyper-cities of the future.

Download or read book The Alpha Plague Books 7 8 written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flynn Golding has lost all of the people close to him. His mum, his dad, and now Vicky. However, he doesn’t yet know Vicky’s dead, so he doesn’t know who killed her. Convinced that Vicky chose to leave, he’ll find out the truth sooner or later. When he does, he’ll have to accept his community is run by her murderers. The community that offers him safety, security, and three square meals a day. Either that, or he’ll have to make them pay, therefore giving up his safe existence and re-entering a hostile world. The Alpha Plague is a post-apocalyptic action adventure thriller. This box set includes: The Alpha Plague 7 The Alpha Plague 8

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Download or read book The Alpha Plague 2 written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TO HELL AND SURVIVED, THE LAST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS GO BACK. Equipped with nothing but a baseball bat and his wits, Rhys enters Summit City for a second time. His son wants his Mummy, and Rhys is the only one that can save her. If he can get to The Alpha Tower, he can release the shutters on all of the buildings in the city. Maybe then he can get his ex-wife and best friend out of there. However, to open the shutters will release chaos onto the already wild streets. The only advantage Rhys has over the thousands of other people that will be fighting for their lives, is he understands what he’s up against. Hopefully that knowledge will be the difference between life and death. To make matters worse, an order to incinerate the city has been activated. In five hours’ time, the complex will be burned to a crisp. To give his son what he needs, Rhys has to risk everything. After one final deep breath, Rhys re-enters hell. The Alpha Plague 2 is a post-apocalyptic action thriller.

Download or read book Rat Run written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With extreme austerity driving everyone but the super wealthy into poverty, Matt joined the revolutionaries in their fight against the UK government. The previous monuments to political rule were toppled, and London was reduced to rubble ... ... but they didn't win. It's ten years later and Matt's desperate for one last roll of the dice. Tired of spending his life in hiding, he's made a promise to himself and his twelve-year-old daughter. They're going to take control. They're going to fight back again, and this time they're going to win. To fulfil his promise they must reconnect with the remaining revolutionaries. To find the remaining revolutionaries, they must take to the streets. With The Elite's drones on patrol, nowhere is more dangerous than the streets of London ... Rat Run is a dark post-apocalyptic novella. What the reviewers are saying: 5 Stars - A definite book not to be missed. Phew, I think I will breathe now! - Lana Turner - Amazon reviewer. 5 Stars - The story is crisp and fast paced while maintaining the humanity of the characters. - Amazon reviewer. 5 stars - Not your typical everyday post apocalyptic story...it has a surprising twist. - Anil - Amazon Reviewer.

Download or read book The First Mission written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell. As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he’s made the right call. The First Mission Book Two of The Shadow Order - is a fast-paced, planet-hopping, space opera adventure.

Download or read book Eradication written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the Crimson War has ended, Seb Zodo has returned to the Shadow Order’s base with Sparks, SA, and Bruke. The sadness of losing Gurt still weighs heavy on Seb’s heart. So when he finds himself faced with another mission for the Shadow Order, a mission that involves the eradication of a deadly parasite on a hostile planet; a parasite responsible for wiping out an entire mining colony, he has a tough choice to make. Go against Moses and refuse the mission, or jump on a shuttle and face the deadly threat that could see him and his friends killed ... Either way, it isn’t going to be pretty. Eradication - book four in The Shadow Order series - Is a fast-paced space opera adventure. If you like bold characters, planet-hopping, and edge-of-your-seat action, then you’ll love Michael Robertson’s thrilling series.

Download or read book The Shadow Order written by Michael Robertson and published by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fight, Seb is unbeatable. But in this galaxy, there are a million ways to lose... Seb Zodo has never backed down from a fist fight. After all, he’s been gifted with powers that make losing impossible. But lately, Seb’s gift seems more like a curse... Seb’s fearlessness leads to stupid decisions, short-lived jobs, and unwanted attention in dangerous places. In a desperate bid at a fresh start, Seb swears off fighting. But it may be too late... When a run-in with an electrifying thief and the head of a shadowy organization sends his life spiraling out of control, Seb has no choice left but to go down swinging... The Shadow Order is the first book in a series of fast-paced space opera adventures. If you like bold characters, planet-hopping, and edge-of-your-seat action, then you’ll love Michael Robertson’s thrilling series starter.

Download or read book Tribulation Diary written by Fred Roe and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Rapture, Tabatha Riley was an ordinary housewife in the small town of West Plains, Missouri. She recounts in her diary how her husband and two daughters disappeared in an increasingly chaotic and dire world. While defending her lost family, she is arrested and her diary is later found. Harley Collins, the son of a preacher and retired military operative who knows how best to survive in an apocalyptic world, decides to continue her diary. The gruff old Vietnam vet understands how to live in a world filled with evil, destruction, disease, famine, and religious intolerance. Harley wonders if God will still extend mercy to him, or if he is condemned to hell. He is joined by an old friend, and together they set out to bring a sinning community back to Christ before it is too late. Tribulation Diary: Heartland is the rare novel that successfully combines Christian teachings with thrilling action. Fred Roe says the only unique thing about West Plains, Missouri, where he lives, is that it is so ordinary. This is his third novel and all are Christ centered. "My countdown for Tribulation to occur begins in the year 2014, which lends a certain urgency to read the book."