Blurb
THE
APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED.
You
know what they call me.
Camera-eyed
killer. Spawn of the ruins. Man who stole a city.
These
are not the names of a saint. But every legend has an origin story.
And because of what I am, you can experience mine in real-time.
Fair
warning, though: my life contains instances of drug use,
bio-terrorism, aquatic street fighting, unsolicited retinal surgery,
advanced warfare, amateur sex and straight-up murder.
But
if you're sick of sanitized heroes... then log in, lose yourself and
become the Live Soldier. Because you've never met a marine like me.
Excerpt
Fifteen
years I’ve been dreaming this scene.
I’m
treading water, naked save for a sheen of oil, clinging to a cube of
crushed plastic bottles. The sun is a burning weight against my brow.
The Hive and its lesser brethren are miles behind, the mainland just
a rumor ahead. The Gulf surrounds me. A churning sea of debris and
rotted kelp, it stretches to the horizons, a heat haze glazing its
fetid surface.
I’m
going to die out here. I know it, the fish and the gulls are sure of
it, the tiny crabs in my hair consider it a foregone conclusion. If
only Kalana would get the hint too. She’s crouched atop a net
filled with 4-liter milk jugs, screaming at me to keep struggling. Or
I think she is, anyway. My submerged ears hear only the ocean’s
monotonous voice, imagination transforming it into the whispers of
our drowned companions.
This
dream is based on a memory. In real life, Kalana climbs down and
pulls me bodily from the water. And together, jumping, crawling and
swimming by turns, we cross the floating garbage dump that separates
the Hive from Opacity. The first acolytes ever to escape the
Designer’s service. But in the world my mind likes to recreate, she
doesn’t bother. After screaming herself hoarse, she makes a gesture
of negation and vanishes, leaving me to sink into the abyss to the
taste of a lover’s disappointment.
Fifteen
years is a very long time.
About
the Author
Liam
is a Canadian who recently moved to Australia after getting kicked
out of England for apologizing too much. He works on the commercial
side of design agencies as a job, where his seething jealousy of the
creative staff boils over into writing.
Website:
http://www.liamclay.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thelivesoldier/
Liam
Clay is giving away a $75 Amazon/BN Gift Card to one
lucky reader.
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4 comments:
Thanks for hosting! Readers, the book is FREE at Amazon for a limited time!
I think your book sounds really good and I look forward to reading it.
Thank you for sharing your book. This sounds like a very harsh society (and I'm sorry you were kicked out for apologizing too much, lol).
Hello, Liam - sorry I couldn't welcome you yesterday but I was on a plane...!
This sounds truly original. I hope your tour goes really well.
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