Miles is back for another round of hardboiled pulp action in the two-fisted sequel to The Man Who Crossed Worlds.Freelance Tunneler Miles Franco is having a bad time of it. He's facing a trial that could see him spend the rest of his days in prison. Hallucinations of dead men haunt him day and night. And to top it all off, one of his bandmates has been poisoned by a toxin from another world.Miles doesn't take kindly to people killing his friends. Now he'll have to walk the ...

It's a bad time to be a superhero. When the world turned its back on metahumans, the golden age of superheroes came crashing down. But now a mysterious supercriminal is making one final bid for power, and with no one else left to protect the world, ex-hero Spook must risk everything to take him down. There will be no reprieve, no negotiation. War is coming. Put on the mask. There’s work to be done. Chris Strange, author of The Man Who Crosse...

Freelance Tunneler Miles Franco could only watch helplessly when his friend, ex-detective Vivian Reed, was banished to the space between worlds. Now he means to get her back, whatever the cost.But he can't do it alone. Only one woman has the skill and smarts to help Miles tear reality asunder. Trouble is, she once tried to kill him -- and nearly succeeded.Even worse, Miles' old nemesis won't work for free. She wants the only thing a woman like her cares about.Power....

WE WON THE WAR, BUT CAN WE SURVIVE THE NIGHT?Nineteen years ago, the Maydays attacked. Five colossal monsters rose from the earth and laid waste to cities around the globe, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction.Now those monsters are our slaves, fighting each other for our amusement in brutal matches broadcast across the world, courtesy of the Volkov Media Corporation.A MONSTER LIES DEAD.Maydays have proven themselves ...

TO SOME, ARKAS IS A TERRORIST.TO OTHERS, HE’S THEIR SAVIOUR.TO THE CREW OF THE SOLITUDE, HE’S THEIR NEXT PAYDAY.Following a devastating campaign of sabotage on a vital agricultural colony, the figure known only as Arkas makes his final threat: if the Federation fails to meet his demands within five days, he will permanently cripple the star system’s food supply.Bounty hunters Dom Souza and Eddie Gould have t...

EVEN AT THE END, JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED.The Eleda system is dying. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the ancient machines that keep the colonies alive are breaking down, one by one.Bounty hunter Eddie Gould intends to write the tales of the system’s last days with a pen in one hand and a gun in the other. Alongside his partner, ex-revolutionary Dominique, Eddie hunts a fugitive through the flickering neon and crippled life support systems of a doomed space...

The world is changing at an alarming pace, and Graham Sheppard finds himself at the centre of two opposing forces. One is trying to manipulate him, and the other wants him dead. It is a journey to discover what is causing these alterations in time. Testing the divide between illusion and reality, Sheppard will have to rely on old friends and seek out the help of his enemies to solve the mysteries and try to correct a quantum computer corruption known as the Gryphon Virus. The Gryphon Virus...

It is the early years of a new millennium. The musical group, The Oral Blondes, is unexpectedly reunited after a twenty-year hiatus to renew the promise of an unrealized success. Their journey will lead through a gauntlet of frustrating yet comedic obstacles and a tangled web of deception where trust and faith are rare commodities. Friendships get tested, hopes shattered, and dead ends overcome in this who-done-it that keeps you guessing until the end. Handmade Heart is the second book in ...

Graham Sheppard is in a race against time to warn the people of Coram, Montana, of a lethal contagion affecting not only their community but others. It is a journey leading him to unexpected obstacles, deadly discoveries and a weapon that could destroy the world. Ultimately, Sheppard will find that salvation relies on a twelve-year-old boy with a special gift.

It is the pretentious mid-eighties and a make-or-break tour through hell for Bitter Romance, a small-time band trying to find a place in the competitive music industry. It is a narration in overcoming betrayal, impossible odds and a comedy of errors that lead to success in the most unlikely way. Wires Whitmire is the quiet, chain-smoking sound-man who has a knack for getting his band out of the trouble that always seems to find them. His only creative outlet is the caricatures he draws — a...

IN THE DARKEST REACHES OF THE VOID, THERE ARE SECRETS WORTH KILLING FOR.When hijackers take control of a corporate ship and disappear without a trace, they escape with a bounty on their heads and a secret powerful enough to bring down entire corporations.Bounty hunters Eddie Gould and Dom Souza take the contract to recover the stolen ship and apprehend the fugitives. But when they track the hijackers to a vast exile ship, home to thousands of refugees from ...

Originally published in 1986, Dependency and Interdependency in Old Age presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference in 1985. The areas covered include: the sociology of ageing, methodological issues, evaluations of service provision, ethnographies of growing old, historical studies and political perspectives on ageing. A creative dialogue between the proponents of these themes was urgently needed at the time and it was hoped that this volume would sti...