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Book 1, Running: The Alien in the MIrror is only available free onlineThe battle for Earth threatens to eclipse Jake's soul!The jackal-headed Ischians are here! When General Jake Nanden retired from the USAC, he could never have guessed that his greatest battle was still to come.Since then, he has joined a spiritual cult called the Blue Path, trying to establish communication with a few peaceful Ischians.But now his world has been torn apart; his wife and youngest son have been killed, probably his eldest too and the Los Angeles and Washington citizens sweat it out under inescapable alien domes.His son, Stone, warned him of the invasion and he joined up with Gary Enquine to form a rudimentary resistance network.Now, they must find a way to rise up and defeat the conquerors of Earth! Nanden must escape and unite the remaining human and clone forces, scattered across the Solar System.But time is running out! Soon, a necklace of giant starships will encircle the Earth and enclose it within a giant, inescapable force field.This tense, all-action sci-fi thriller never lets you pause for breath and the action could be compared with Starship Troopers or Star Wars.But it's not just superficial action, there is the deeper thread of Jake Nanden's own journey as a reconstructed replicant or clone and the struggle of the last humans in a world increasingly controlled by replicants.Intensely and beautiful Science Fiction with a twist, if you love Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov or Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, you will like this.Categories: fiction, science fiction, alien, thriller, first contact, clones, starship, genes, invasion.

Domes now cover Earth's big cities and soon a force field will trap Earth inside!The jackal-headed Ischians are here! When General Jake Nanden retired from the USAC, he could never have guessed that his greatest battle was still to come.Since then, he has joined a spiritual cult called the Blue Path, trying to establish communication with a few peaceful Ischians.But now his world has been torn apart; his wife and youngest son have been killed, probably his eldest too and the Los Angeles and Washington citizens sweat it out under inescapable alien domes.His son, Stone, warned him of the invasion and he joined up with Gary Enquine to form a rudimentary resistance network.Now, they must find a way to rise up and defeat the conquerors of Earth! Nanden must escape and unite the remaining human and clone forces, scattered across the Solar System.But time is running out! Soon, a necklace of giant starships will encircle the Earth and enclose it within a giant, inescapable force field.This tense, all-action sci-fi thriller never lets you pause for breath and the action could be compared with Starship Troopers or Star Wars.But it's not just superficial action, there is the deeper thread of Jake Nanden's own journey as a reconstructed replicant or clone and the struggle of the last humans in a world increasingly controlled by replicants.Intensely and beautiful Science Fiction with a twist, if you love Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov or Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, you will like this.Categories: fiction, science fiction, alien, thriller, first contact, clones, starship, genes, invasion.

Three rookie space cadets crash on an unknown planet with aliens hot on their tail!While a dissident alien scientist struggles to control time, he discovers that his wife will betray him. His favourite student discovers a way to see into the past but finds himself surrounded by enemies in a complex, fragmenting culture.Meanwhile, Stone, douchebag son of Iron Cross winner Jake Nanden, a nerd and a feminist from the Space Fleet Academy crash-land on an unknown planet after falling through a worm-hole in this gripping and visionary science fiction thriller.Called Anubians by humans, the jackal-headed aliens are now revealed as Ischians but they are hiding something on this unknown planet in an unknown universe.Stone's universe is shattered while he tries to escape and warn Earth of danger.If you like Stargate, Flight of the Phoenix, Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke or Greg Bear, you will just have to read this thought-provoking part two of the epic Iron Series. Categories: non-fiction,philosophy, metaphysics, fiction, science fiction, visionary, alien contact,clones, history.

Prequel to the series, Running: Alien in the Mirror is available fee online.A man hell-bent on revenge for the death of his friend, in battle!Seeking revenge for the death of a friend ten long years ago, Major Jake Nanden has pursued his own personal demons with an almost religious fervour through life and through battle.He is a soldier so highly decorated for bravery that his fame reaches far beyond the desolate Jupiter moon, Io, where his battalion is stationed. His victories in the Jupiter Wars are hollow though, for he is a man scared of his own soul.His life seems to be a trap from which he cannot escape. His is the Replicant Company, and replicants, or clones, are despised by all.Likened to a cross between Blade Runner and Paths of Glory, you simply must read this beautifully constructed, intensely dark and powerful Science Fiction thriller with a twist, if you love Phillip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov.You can read Chapter One of this book FREE when you purchase any of the 3 eBook Short Stories collections - Inchoate: (Short Stories Volume I), Eighteen, Blue: (Short Stories Volume II) or Vampire: Beneficence: (Short Stories Volume III) on Amazon.Categories: science fiction, thriller, alien, first contact, clones, starship. 

The prequel to the series, Vampire: Find my Grave is available only as a free eBook from from online retailers.An ex-spy wakes up in an inescapable 13th Century dungeon; no light, no food or water and no way out!A psychic historian finds secret codes woven into an altar cloth and learns how to use the Temple Gates.But on a skiing holiday, his crippled wife is kidnapped by the witch Georgina, now allied with a murderous sect, and taken back to medieval France in this taught, dark thriller.He gambles with his life, chases the assassins and wakes up in an oubliette; a dungeon with no way out!It's pitch black, he doesn't know his jailer or remember his name.Could his captors be his arch-enemies; the Biblical shapeshifting Serpents?The dice are loaded.Where is he? Who put him here? How can he get out?Can you face the fear... of total... darkness?Shapeshifting, time travel and military conflict all come together in this richly plotted paranormal thrillerIf you love the Da Vinci Code, you will adore The Devil's Own Dice.Categories: Fiction, thriller, paranormal, historical, medieval, romance, psychic, military, fun, racy, vampire, werewolf.