A brutal society needs the team to harness Wraith technology.
Frankie Lam has it all: money, great job and a steady stream of women. But his world is about to be rocked to its core as he takes over his deceased brother's job in the Hong Kong office of a shadowy multi-national corporation. Spirit-ancestors, organised crime and an elusive disposable pop star;...
Stacks staggered out across the corridor, shaking his head violently and clawing at the air. His heavy cybernetic arms crashed through racks of discarded equipment, smashing them to the ground. The man cast around, swinging back and forth, as if he had been thrown into a pit of horrors that only ...
Young and Dangerous Ko had the small of his back pressed into the corner of the holding cell, legs pulled up on the foam cot, knees to his chest, his head flat against the cold wall. With mechanical boredom he was ripping pea-sized balls of material from the mattress and flicking them across the ...
Nog grimaced as Tom Riker came in and pulled the bloody mek’leth from where he had buried it in the mercenary’s side. “He was going to kill you,” said the human. “Don’t make that face.” “Sorry,” Nog managed. “I’m not good with lots of blood.” The dead guard had two small-bore disruptor pistols in...
He's weak inside. I know what happened in the fight room. When push comes to shove, he's going to fold. Believe me."Saxon's lips thinned, but he kept his silence."We'll see," offered Namir.But the next words Hardesty uttered froze Saxon's blood in his veins. "You should have let me deal with him ...
The Genetic Infantryman's composed, static face had changed with the sights they'd seen in the laboratory and the pilot could see a smouldering anger building up behind those blank yellow eyes. "We have to get out of here," Ferris insisted for the third time in as many minutes. "Rogue, come on! Y...
Shifting gently in the silent darkness, the crenellated hulls and great ornate shapes appeared as a congregation of Gothic edifices, cathedral-wrought in their complexity, drifting as if torn from the surface of worlds and carved into warships. Great sculpted bows filigreed into arrow points turn...
The remnants of colorful signage across it were green with mildew and decay, and weeds coiled around everything. It had been what modern urban planners would call a “retail park” when they first broke ground in the 1980s—a site for a big-box store surrounded by the flat expanse of a parking lot, ...