Veteran

By: Gavin G. Smith

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Paperback | 5 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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450 Pages

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2.8 x 13.1 x 19.7

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A powerhouse SF debut featuring a jawdroppingly vivid hell-on-earth future, a brutal war against unknowable aliens, and Jake-a tough-as-nails anti-heroÿThree hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city-sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg pirate king who believes himself to be a mythological demon, Jakob is having a bad day.ÿNothing gets in the way of a hangover like being reactivated by your old C.O and told to track down an alien killing machine. The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad. And now it's in my hometown. My name is Jakob Douglas, ex-special forces. I fought Them. Just like we've all been doing for 60 bloody years. But I thought my part in that was done with. My boss has other ideas. If I didn't find the infiltrator then he'd let the Grey Lady loose on me. And believe me; even They've got nothing on her. So I took the job. It went to shit even faster than normal. And now I'm on the run with this teenage hacker who's had enough of prostitution. The only people I can rely on want to turn the internet into God. And now it turns out that They aren't quite what we'd all thought. I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth. And I still can't get far enough away from the Grey Lady. All things considered I'd rather be back at home deep in a whiskey bottle.ÿFast paced andÿintricately plotted, thisÿscience fiction adventure isÿset in a dark future against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending war, against an unknowable and implacable alien enemy.

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I have no hesitation in recommending Veteran, I really couldn't put it down and the novel has left a lasting impression that will not fade for some time. * SFBOOK.COM *
Age Of Scorpio announces loud and clear that in Gavin Smith an exceptional talent has arrived to uplift SF. The book is a master class of twisting plot lines that celebrate both the weird and astounding, amid a future that's deeply unnerving yet equally compelling. -- Peter F Hamilton
Gavin Smith's writing is a brutal kaleidoscope of imagination, with the raw energy of a heavy metal album cover: equally dazzling with bloodthirsty ancient Picts and the fallen post-humans of tomorrow. -- Hannu Rajaniemi, author of The Causal Angel

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