After the war, the United States had kicked Hugo Hammer to the curb, and he was intent on staying there. He had suffered enough to help defeat the Nazis, and all he wanted to do was to waste away on the streets, one drink at a time. He wanted to be useless, a drag on society, so that no one would ever ask him to be a hero again.But the Nazis were back, digging their way back to the surface and intent on conquering humanity. The world was still beaten and bloodied from the war, stil...

Loyal corporate peon Nathan goes into work every day and minds his own business. He does not question the bosses on how things are run, or on how people like Nathan are treated. But a person can only be pushed so far before they descend into a vengeful rage. Bent past his breaking point, Nathan must now harness all of skills, limited computer security knowledge and crippling social anxiety to win back his life from the oppressive forces that stole it from him. Victory is a matter of life a...

In space, no one can hear you whine about your job. Pete, Brian, and Kelly toil day after day to send Earth's hazardous waste away to be burnt up by the sun. After dealing with the garbage every day, they return to the surface and a world reeling from the aftermath of a civil war. Tired of complaining to the emptiness of space, they devise a plan to get back at their oppressors. What started as a prank turns into a struggle between life and death, liberty and enslavement. After spending th...

Dread. Despair. Desperation. Disappointment. These are the only emotions Pete is familiar with. With no friends, no job, and no prospects for the future, Pete sets out west in search for a new beginning as a forest firefighter. It doesn't take long for Pete to learn that life out in the wilderness of Montana is tough, tougher than anything he's ever experienced. The only thing keeping Pete alive is the sympathy of an old local fireman named Paul, who's seen too many people fail to bear see...

You come into work day after day, just trying to get by unnoticed. You come home, unwind, relax, and spend a little time on a pet project. Then someone takes notice. You receive threatening emails. Strangers are following you on the train. Your home isn't safe anymore. You have no one to turn to. Alone. Scared. Paranoid. You don't have time to think. You have to act now. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive. Those are your only options.Joe’s dreams were always just out of his reach. Cursed to...

Everyone loves their grandma but these three are just a little...different. They have certain skills in war and strategy developed over forty years through military training and discipline. They are the definition of "never judge a book by its cover." They now work as contractors for the extra money. Follow the hapless Clem as he is hired to drive the three on their latest mission of destruction.

A female private investigator goes undercover to expose a high-flying prostitution ring in this "action-filled thriller [that] packs an erotic punch" ( The Boston Globe).Tough, smart, and resourceful, Alex Shanahan survived the cutthroat corporate world on her own terms. Now she's using her hard-earned experience as a private investigator. Alex is hired to check out an airline that's been serving more than just in-flight beverages: there's a high-end prost...

Through November, the complete season of The Cutting Room is just $0.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/the-cutting-room-5~In the future, there are many parallel Earths--but only one of them has time travel. Its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police.Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. But on a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he steps into ...

Metropolis wasn’t a bad place, but it wasn’t a good one either.THESE MEAN STREETS, DARKLY is the prequel to the cyberpunk, detective series, LIQUID COOL.It’s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the “neon jungle.” Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the supercity, but so does crime.An average wom...

A triptych chronicling the unexpectedly epic adventures of an ordinary office temp."Temporary Stories" appears in Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss...

Making a decision for a career at the age of 18 is a mistake. Watch what happens when you live the life of an IT monkey and get to see what people are really like behind the keyboard. Everything within is true, all are events that happened to me at one point or another over 14 miserable years working in this field. The bottom line is, after 14 years doing it,I have never met a single normal person

Do you hate your job? Ok maybe let's take a step back. Maybe you despise your life? The way it's going; how everything that happens is your fault yet you don't really have the power to change anything? Sound familiar? Want to change it? I did. And boy was I sure things were going to change for the better. But you know the things they don't tell you in the movies or the hundreds of self help books out there? Every now and again fate has a way of messing up your plans. And well, as I like to...