Gun Runner on Amazon! Order here!
Autographed copies available from Uncle Hugo’s here!
Podcast discussion with the authors here!
The Heart of a Warrior
Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away.
Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. The client: a man known only as the Warlord. Rook has been in the smuggling business long enough to know that it’s best to take the money and not ask questions. But Rook cannot stand by and watch as the Warlord runs roughshod over the citizens of Swindle, the way the Collectivists did on his homeworld. For all his mercenary ways, Rook is not a pirate. And deep within the smuggler, the heart of a warrior still beats.
How John Brown and I came up with this book is kind of cool. We live plotted it in front of a con audience at LTUE based on story ideas given to us by my son (who was a little kid at the time). And now here it is. And it came out really good. I’m excited to hear what you guys think of it.
I’m super excited to read it! Just waiting on my copy in the mail!
Dig it! Will order a copy. And I suspect the Cubans in Miami will find this book interesting, given their, you know……..
Them and the Vietnamese boat people, those that still remember those days.
Cool. Sounds a lot like a take off of Firefly. Lord knows we need more of that in today’s world!
That’s the impression I got as well after reading it – the good parts of Firefly, with giant robots and kaiju.
I loved it, and would love to see where you take this universe if it isn’t a one-off.
It’s cool that signed copies are coming out of Uncle Hugo’s. It’s a load of BS what happened to them
Yeah, it is. It’s good to see them recovering from the BLM brownshirts.
sounds like a tin-foil hat version of Ayn Rand meets Star Wars.
So is that like a good thing or a bad thing? 😀
Judging from his posting history here, I doubt he meant it in a good way.
Cool. Then he can fuck right off. 😀
your books usually turn out fun. I have only read the monster hunter and grimnoir series.
Ryan, considering the timeline we’re living in right now, you’re revealing yourself to be painfully naive.
I’m about 30% through the ebook, it’s great.
About a third the way through it and thoroughly enjoying it. Just one question. Why does my mental picture of Bushey and Katze have them wearing red tunics?
Swindle reminds me quite a bit of Pyrrus from Harry Harrison’s Deathworld trilogy. One of my favorites so I am really enjoying this.
Just finished it. Super excited to see where it goes next… Please hurry! 🙂