It is hard to write these words. Something inside of me wants to destroy everything, to burn and break in fury at the cruel blow that fate has delivered us all. My every thought is with you. I cannot sleep for the fear that infects me, of what you may be going through and for rage at my inability...
Her arms were outstretched by her sides, but that was the only thing that was visibly human about her. From her feet to her head was a roiling mass of black Infectors shimmering in the red light, only her eyes and lips visible. The Marines held defensive positions around the hatch as Bra’hiv snap...
Cas squatted against a damp wall in the cellar and wracked his brains for some way out of the city without attracting attention. ‘Worse than that,’ Siren added, ‘we’ve got to make it all the way back up the Concord Turnpike to Lincoln. I can’t remember every detail, but I know the British forces ...
He saw Lopez hurl herself down behind a tree trunk, covering her face as chips of bark showered down across the foliage around her. The shooting stopped, the Everglades silent in the heat again as leaves and bark chips dislodged by bullets drifted down around Ethan. He squ...
Ethan leaned forward and switched on the pitot heat to avoid icing inside the aircraft’s sensitive instruments as he sought to maintain a track on the river far below. ‘There’s not a road in sight out here,’ Lopez said. ‘If we can’t take off again, we’ll be stuck out here for days.’ ‘We need to b...
‘Admiral,’ Foxx said, ‘we have a problem.’ ‘I have several,’ Marshall said wearily, ‘don’t tell me that you’re going to add to the list.’ ‘We believe that there is a conspiracy to initiate a prison riot on Tethys Gaol.’ ‘Riot?’ Marshall echoed. ‘What the hell for, there’s nowhere for the prisoner...
She was standing in the foyer of a laboratory that handled all forensic investigations for Santa Fe’s law enforcement agencies, and had been responsible for the investigation of the morgue from which Hiram Conley’s apparently mummified remains had vanished. ‘Any ideas of w...
‘We agreed we’d share information.’ ‘We agreed we wouldn’t shoot at each other,’ Taron corrected. ‘The rest is open to negotiation.’ The captain’s dining cabin was larger than his personal quarters and had been designed specifically for entertaining dignitaries who did not wish to chat among the ...
‘What?’ They stared at him for a long time, as though having finally had the courage to broach the matter they could not now fathom a suitable question with which to begin. ‘Is that planet down there habitable?’ Meyanna asked finally. ‘Somewhere we could live, like Ethera?’ ‘It’s not quite like E...
The waitress went to fetch their coats as they stood and held each other, surrounded by the blue lights and with the sound of whispering water from the restaurant display tinkling behind them. ‘That,’ Angela said, ‘was the best night out I’ve had in a long time.’ ‘Me too,’ Griffin said. ‘That wat...
Hugging the banks would get him out of the water and provide cover, but then he would not be able to see any attack coming. The creek bubbled softly around rocks and fallen branches that were rotting in the damp, moisture-laden air. The bed of the creek was a cobbled moras...
‘All of them. We know that the Red Cross teams have found evidence of broken laboratory equipment amongst the debris of the main building. Taken with the attire of the dead men, it would seem likely that they were at the very least working in some kind of controlled laboratory conditions.’ Sophie...
Before them was a long, low ridge that rose up off the glacier, churned ice and chunks of snow littering its banks. Veer could see as he jumped down off the ATV that the disturbance was recent and that the ski gliders had stopped nearby, their tracks in the snow clearly visible. The other ATVs sw...