They say that good things come in threes – well, in this month of October that’s certainly true for me, because I have three, count ’em, three huge new blockbuster releases arriving over the next thirty days!
First and foremost: Marc Dane, the everyman hero of my fast-paced action thriller novels returns in his 6th adventure at end of October in the pages of Outlaw, in the shattering conclusion to the events of Rogue!
For ex-MI6 officer Marc Dane, his friend and colleague Lucy Keyes, and the survivors of Rubicon’s Special Conditions Division, the future is bleak. With no support and no backup, they are living on the edge, and the walls are closing in – so with nothing left to lose, the team will risk everything in a last ditch gambit to strike back at the Combine and bring them down…once and for all.
Gutted by the ruthless power brokers known as the Combine, the Rubicon Group is a shadow of its former self, its founder Ekko Solomon missing presumed dead and the members of its private security and intelligence team in hiding, framed for a terrorist atrocity they did not commit.
Rising from the ashes of Rubicon’s destruction, Marc and the team undertake a high-stakes undercover mission to stop a catastrophic plan to crash the global financial network, with only their cunning and their skills to carry them through. If they succeed, they might just get their lives back. If they fail, it will be the end of everything they’ve been fighting for…
Outlaw brings together plot elements and story threads from all the way back to the first Marc Dane novel Nomad, as the renegade remnants of the private intelligence agency Rubicon come face to face with the power brokers behind every threat they have faced over the last five years in a last-chance fight for survival!
Everything in in Marc’s past adventures has been building to this, and I’m excited about unleashing Outlaw on my readers! The hardcover and ebook edition is available for pre-order at This Link, so grab it now to have it for release day on the 28th!
But two days before Outlaw arrives on the 26th, I also have a double-whammy of all-action science fiction adventures hitting stores…
The first is one I’ve recently blogged about (read more here) – book 2 in the universe-changing Star Trek: Coda trilogy, The Ashes of Tomorrow.
The Future is at war with the Past; As a ruthless enemy spreads fear across the galaxy, leaving devastation in its wake, Captain Benjamin Sisko and Vedek Kira Nerys share a terrifying premonition of an unstoppable apocalypse.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is forced to take matters into his own hands when Starfleet Command refuses to challenge the invaders, recruiting trusted allies into a desperate, impossible fight.
In the burning skies of the Bajor system, a deadly confrontation threatens a billion worlds – but the price of survival is an act of destruction beyond all reason…
Ashes picks up the baton from Dayton Ward’s novel Moments Asunder, as the heroes of the Star Trek saga come together to fight a terrifying threat to all of space-time – a threat they may not be able to defeat before a temporal apocalypse engulfs everything!
All bets are off with the Coda trilogy – no-one’s survival is guaranteed, and in the aftermath, the Star Trek universe will never be the same… The trade paperback, audiobook and ebook edition of The Ashes of Tomorrow is available for pre-order at This Link, releasing on the 26th!
But if you like your space adventures a little more interactive, and a little more rough around the edges, one universe over that band of trouble-makers and a-holes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy are coming to a games platform near you!
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure videogame produced by Eidos Montreal for Square Enix, placing players in the jet-boots of none other than Star-Lord himself as he does his best to lead Rocket Racoon, Gamora, Groot and Drax the Destroyer on a mission to save the stars…or so he hopes.
Your newly-formed band of legendary misfits is set to save the universe in this fresh but faithful take on the Guardians of the Galaxy. Somehow, you set off a chain of catastrophic events, leading to a wild ride through mind-blowing worlds inhabited by iconic and original Marvel characters. Turn up the all-star ‘80s mixtape and get ready to kick it.
You’re the only thing holding the unpredictable Guardians together, so you’ll have to get better at this leadership thing fast. With this offbeat approximation of a family at your side, there will be tears and laughter as you set about tearing into the cosmos together. Whatever’s waiting around the next corner, you know it’s going to be a blast.
I worked with Eidos Montreal on the Deus Ex series of games, and the narrative team invited me back to do a little work on Guardians – which, as a big Marvel Comics fan, was a great experience for me to write dialogue for some of my favourite comicbook characters.
The game will be released in multiple editions on PC and games consoles on the 26th, and you can pre-order it at This Link.
You can read more on this site about Outlaw, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow by clicking on the titles.
Hold on tight; October is going to be a busy month!
