Adventures on RV Traveler (Free Trader Series Book 3) (29 page)

Free Trader Book 4 – Battle of the Amazon

Overview

Until the Amazonian War is over, traders and villagers alike live in fear. They go about their business under the dark pallor of evil. The Lizard Man Overlords and the forces they command threaten small group strikes anywhere and everywhere, leaving every village along the rainforest at risk.

Traders hold on tightly as the Aurochs pull their wagons at a dead run. Speed keeps the Lizard Men from surprising them on the open road. The humans are under a siege that isn’t a siege.

The Overlords terrorize the south. Their influence grows as their bands of warriors spread far and wide, moving within the darkness of the rainforest.

Braden has had enough. The villagers along the southern trade route deserve to live in peace. There is no one else to take this war to the Overlords and their minions. Braden and Micah need volunteers to carry blasters into the rainforest. They need the help of Zalastar and the loyalists if they are to find the Overlords and defeat them.

Will they?

Free Trader Series Book 4, Battle for the Amazon is targeted for release in the Fall of 2016.

Postscript

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Thank you for reading Adventures on RV Traveler. This book fulfilled a dream that I’ve had nearly forty years and that was to take my love of Brian Aldiss’ Starship and Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky and create an adventure on an interstellar ship that has been abandoned, yet teems with life. The Free Trader’s world has expanded to the skies!

Braden and Micah’s adventures will continue later in 2016. We need to find out what’s happening in the north. Has someone destroyed the trade-based civilization that Braden was raised to respect? What about the villagers from White Beach who were taken to the Western Ocean Research Facility?

In my technothriller series, can petty politics keep Rick Banik from stopping the next terror attack? Taken from today’s headlines and my twenty years of experience in the intelligence community, the world is never far from tipping out of balance. The smallest events can have the greatest impact. Finding these and stopping them is an ongoing challenge to a free society. And your average citizen doesn’t even know what’s been done to protect them.

About the Author

Craig is a successful author, on track to publish ten books in 2016. He’s taken his more than twenty years of experience in the Marine Corps, his legal education, and his business consulting career to write believable characters living in realistic worlds.

Although Craig has written in multiple genres, what he believes most compelling are in-depth characters dealing with real-world issues. Just like Star Trek, the original series used a backdrop of space, the themes related to modern day America. Life lessons of a great story can be applied now or fifty years in the future. Some things are universal.

Craig believes that evil exists. Some people are driven differently and cannot be allowed access to our world. Good people will rise to the occasion. Good will always challenge evil, sometimes before a crisis, many times after, but will good triumph?

Some writers who’ve influenced Craig? Robert E. Howard (the original Conan), JRR Tolkien, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Lin Carter, Brian Aldiss, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Anne McCaffrey, and of late, James Axler, Raymond Weil, Jonathan Brazee, Mark E. Cooper, and David Weber. Craig learned something from each of these authors, story line, compelling issue, characters that you can relate to, the beauty of the prose, unique tendrils weaving through the book’s theme. Craig’s writing has been compared to that of Andre Norton and Craig’s Free Trader characters to those of McCaffrey’s Dragonriders, the Rick Banik Thrillers to the works of Robert Ludlum.

Craig finds the comparisons humbling. All he wants is for his readers to relate to the characters, put themselves into those situations described in Craig’s books and ask themselves, what would they do if they were there instead?

Through a bizarre series of events, Craig ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. He never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But he loves it there. It is off the beaten path. He and his wife watch the northern lights from their driveway. Their dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach forty below zero. They have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.

It’s all part of the give and take of life. If they didn’t have those extremes, then everyone would live there.