Forty-Eight X (37 page)

J
ake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads—an elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as The Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. Tower International, a controversial genetic engineering company, employs him as their director of security.

While battling an addiction to cocaine, Jake enters his new high-pressure position in the private sector. What he encounters behind the closed doors of this sinister operation is beyond the realm of human imagination. Too horrible to contemplate, the experimentation is pure madness, the outcome a hell where only pain and terror reside. Nicholas Tower is not the hero flaunted on the cover of Time magazine. Beneath the polished exterior of this frontiersman on the cutting edge of science is a corporate executive surrounded by the creations of his deranged mind.

As Jake delves deeper into the hidden sphere of this frightening laboratory, his discoveries elicit more than stereotypical condemnation for unethical practices performed for the good of mankind. Sequestered in rooms veiled in secrecy is the worst crime the world will ever see—the theft of the human soul.

ISBN# 978-160542072-1
Mass Market Paperback
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Horror
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In a test to the human race, highly advanced aliens decide to offer free secrets that will enable universal space travel without time or distance constraints. Earth snaps at the challenge and collectively musters resources to develop the most advanced starship ever built on Earth, which is appropriately named, Leapfrog, for the technological jump over existing science. Unfortunately, corrupt secret services, greedy politicians, and overly wary generals condemn this mission from the start.

While in deep cryogenic sleep, the crew of Leapfrog encounters a disastrous meteor shower that destroys the main engines. Thousands of years pass while the stricken ship slowly meanders its way back to earth with two hundred and seventy five humans solidly frozen in deep suspended animation.

As the crew finally awakens, they find Earth is no longer the same. Seeking clues as to what has happened; the survivors attempt to re-colonize, only to discover that a new ultra-evolved creature now predominates and ruthlessly rules the top of the food chain. The explorers are forced to abandon their derelict starship and face a horrifying battle among cannibal Neanderthals and the ultra-evolved creatures, barely escaping with their lives.

ISBN# 978-193383650-8
Trade Paperback / Science Fiction
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A dozen years from now the world is at the tipping point of environmental catastrophe. Supercomputers have determined that much of what made the world wonderful is beyond saving, and life is only sustainable in logically administered communities where every resource is rationed, every action monitored to ensure it is in accordance with The Common Good. There are no more butterflies, no coral reefs, no rainbows. Only The Common Good.

Supercomputers have also formed a new global government, the EcoSystem, to cope with a new problem—division between Names (naturally born people) and Numbers (those who have been genetically engineered due to falling fertility rates).

The Eco System has become corrupted, however, a potentially fatal corruption which comes to light during the seemingly insignificant death of a plant prospector. The inquiry brings two detectives into conflict: Ben Travis, who can’t match the intelligence of his Numbered partner, and “Perfect Paula,” who can scarcely comprehend Ben’s intuition and imagination. Then Ben discovers the randomly generated emotional flaw in Paula to make her seem more human: a belief in love.

Eventually, on the run in the ruins of a world in which people haven’t been able to live for sixty years, Ben and Paula—and a handful of dazed survivors—must rediscover the lost reverence for nature, life, and love.

ISBN# 978-193383646-1
Trade Paperback
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Science Fiction
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C
HASTISED FOR NOT COOPERATING WITH
the oil company giant New World Petroleum, zoologist Cassidy Lowell is reassigned from the jungles of the Niger Delta to Yellowstone National Park, where wolves are disappearing. Jake Anderson, Special Forces operative, is working within the shadows of Cassidy’s organization, Zoological Environmental Bio Research Agency. His mission? To determine the threatening connection between ZEBRA and NWP.

An alarming genetic mutation of the parvovirus is discovered: CPV-19: human parvovirus merged with canine. And the virus is loose in Yellowstone. Murder, execution, and deadly helicopter rides lead Jake and Cassidy down a road rife with double-crossing and an underlying plot that forces them back to the Niger Delta and into the heart of NWP.

This is the twenty-first-century gold rush—welcome to the dark side!

ISBN# 978-193475555-6
Hardcover
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Thriller
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