Avery Cates: The Machines of War


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Contains four previously published novellas: "The Black Wave," "The Last Mile," "The Ghost Fleet," and "The Salted Earth." Having fled Castelvecchio and the Archangel's forces, Avery Cates and crew have only one move left: To somehow locate and gain access to the Cochtopa facility. Buried under the mountains, that installation was a desperate apocalypse bunker set up in the final days of The System. All the data, equipment, and bullets Cates needs to destroy the Angels is there. So is any possibility of rebooting the human race before it's too late. Getting there won't be easy, and will reacquaint Cates with some people he'd rather not meet again. Across oceans, continents, and mountains, Cates watches his merry band of desperate world-savers shrink as he re-learns an old lesson from his Gunner days: The killing always falls to him.




Avery Cates: The Ghost Fleet


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Avery Cates and his shrinking number of allies have made it to Cochtopa, the secret installation crammed with enough high-tech murder to trade blows with the ArchAngel -- but Cochtopa's AI security is a digital imprint of none other than Dick Marin, the King Worm himself. Now it's a race against time as Marin seeks to snuff out Avery for good and Cates struggles to claim the prize he's sacrificed so much for. As Avery claws his way to victory, however, he's reminded that every win comes with a price -- a price usually paid by the people around him. This is part three in the upcoming Avery Cates novel THE MACHINES OF WAR.




Avery Cates: The Last Mile


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A crashing hover, a team of people he can't trust, another group of people who want him dead -- a typical post-apocalyptic day for Avery Cates. Recovering from disaster, Cates finds himself marooned on a tiny island. Cochtopa is no closer, but ere's hope in the form of the brilliant Ezekial Marko, techie extraordinaire. If Cates can hold everything together long enough -- and survive. Part Two of what will be the concluding novel in the trilogy begun with "The Shattered Gears" and continued with "The Burning City." www.avery-cates.com




Avery Cates: The Salted Earth


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Avery Cates is in charge of Cochtopa, the last bastion of System technology and military might left in the world. But with his allies down to three people and a ghostly voice in his head, it may not be enough to stop the Archangel from forcing suicide on a dying world. With the Archangel's forces on the march and time running out for the human race, Avery decides the only way forward is to go back to basics, back to doing what he's always done best: Being a Gunner. And killing people. Part Four of the novel The Machines of War, available separately.




Avery Cates: The Long Siege


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Avery Cates is a City Lord, but the world's still ending. When he comes across a key piece of information, he hatches a bold plan to reboot the world - but the Archangel's army is camped outside, and they're coming in one way or another. Part Three of the new serialized Avery Cates novel 'The Burning City'.




The Black Wave


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Avery Cates is heading back to The Iron Island to steal what might be the last operational hover in what was once The System, but his rag-tag army is starting to fray -- and there are more System leftovers out there than he knows. And most of them aren't very friendly. Part One of the novel THE MACHINES OF WAR, which will eventually be published in an omnibus edition in both print and digital formats.




The Devil's Bargain


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Avery Cates has a problem. In a shrinking, sterile world, the Archangel is marching his army to Castelvecchio, and Cates has the information he needs to access the last remnants of the awesome technology of the despise System. He’s made his Devil’s Bargain with Lucinda Barowel, and now he knows the hitch: In order to get to the machinery of war left behind at Cochtopa, he’s going to need a boat—and guns. His ersatz army is quickly running out of ammunition in a world where the factories stopped working long ago. When he learns that a local criminal has been hoarding guns and ammo as insurance against the coming apocalypse, Cates heads off to make a deal. And if he can’t make a deal, he’ll have to use every last resource he has left to secure that weaponry for himself—and hope his bargain with Barowel doesn’t come back to bite him in the ass.




The New World


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In this sequel to THE SHATTERED GEARS, Avery Cates is finding life as a City Lord not what it's cracked up to be, and is almost relieved when the woman he stole the city from, Lucinda Barowel, returns with a proposal. Partnering with a former Joint Council Undersecretary isn't a comfortable spot for Avery, and it leads him to some dark places -- and one dark place in particular he'd rather not have to remember. But Cates knows the current state of humanity -- dying in a shut-down world -- is on his shoulders. He also knows he might not survive his struggle against the Archangel, the omnipotent psionic who's marching a genocidal army, intent on ending the world for good. Cates sees that as his penance, and he's okay with it. @page { margin: 0.79in } p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; color: #000000; line-height: 115%; orphans: 2; widows: 2 } p.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; so-language: en-US } p.cjk { font-family: "SimSun"; font-size: 12pt; so-language: zh-CN } p.ctl { font-family: "Lucida Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; so-language: hi-IN }




The Dark Hunt


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The fourth novella making up the novel "The Burning City." Avery Cates is making his play for the ocean and the secret cache of System tech and data that might just bring humanity back from the brink. But nothing ever goes as planned, and when the Gunner finds himself alone in the dark with an unexpected ally, he has to play an epic game of cat and mouse.




The Electric Church


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In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans. Enter Avery Cates, a dangerous criminal known as the best killer-for-hire around. The authorities have a special mission in mind for Cates: assassinate Dennis Squalor. But for Cates, the assignment will be the most dangerous job he's ever undertaken -- and it may well be his last. "Some debuts simply set new bars in a genre. Jeff Somers' The Electric Church is one such book, a gritty noir story that challenges and surprises with every page. A novel that is equal parts Raymond Chandler and William Gibson. A major new talent has arrived -- and it's about time!" -- James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author




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