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Arisen

Arisen

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Readers call the ARISEN series: "the wildest and best rollercoaster I've ever been on" ... "Pulse-pounding action at a relentless pace" ... "THE ABSOLUTE BEST FREAKING SERIES IN THIS GENRE" ... "the most unputdownable military zombie apocalypse arc ever" ... "for adrenaline junkies only" ... "A full-on express elevator to hell " ... "A one-of-a-kind ZA opus. The indomitable warrior spirit shines through from start to finish" ... "the best I have ever read in apocalypse fiction of any kind" ... "Riveting. Full of horror and beauty" ... "These guys are the juggernauts of their genre" ... "the best of the best Sweeping, epic, engaging, and thrilling" ... "keeps on delivering action, thrills & destruction at every turn" ... "Just one more page, I say, then it's 2am again" ... "Another literary heart attack" When a lethal viral outbreak turns nearly all of humanity into flesh-eating abominations, a team of elite special operators takes refuge in the lawless Horn of Africa to survive the apocalypse. Joined by Kate, by a veteran female soldier attached to the unit, and led by their seasoned team sergeant, Jake, this group of insanely skilled but all-to-human warriors must defend their hidden bush camp from the undead plague, as well as relentless attacks by a murderous jihadist warlord. Outgunned and outnumbered against an enemy bent on their destruction, Team Triple Nickel are forced to fight with desperate grit and skill, struggling to carry out their mission while holding on to their humanity. But when an impossible rescue operation into the impenetrable al-Shabaab Stronghold goes disastrously awry, claiming lives and decimating their ranks, those still standing must attempt a last desperate bid to save one of their own held captive, and escape before an unstoppable swarm of millions of ravenous undead descends upon them all. Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity.NEMESISWith over a million copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military ZA series returns to the fall of man - and the war after the fall. ARISEN: NEMESIS is now an Amazon #1 bestseller in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and #1 in Dystopian. Can be read as a standalone novel, an intro to the series, or at any point alongside the main series. ARISENHope Never Dies.
Arisen, Book Nine - Cataclysm

Arisen, Book Nine - Cataclysm

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "A hundred mile an hour thrill ride" ... "breathtaking - absolutely fantastic action" ... "the most exhilarating military zombie series there is" ... "Amazing and heart-wrenching at the same time - the characters feel like family" ... "Perhaps the best in this genre on the planet... and I've read most. You would be hard pressed to find a more thrilling ride" ... "Beyond good - pure action, beginning to end" ... "the fastest, scariest, most spine-tingling, adrenaline-pumping roller-coaster ride of a lifetime" ... "Truly incredible storyweaving" ... "Hands down THE BEST zombie series, nay, dare I say BOOK series, I have ever read" ... "You feel like the explosions are going off beside your head" ... "you never know what the hell is coming at you next" ... "Every time I think it cannot get any better, BAM " ... "the excitement and intricacy blew my mind" ... "Wild ride. Buy your ticket." ARISEN, Book Nine - Cataclysm is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in War Fiction, #1 in Military Science Fiction, and #1 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction. ARISENHope Never Dies. This is the end game - and it's not going well. The battle to keep the undead tide from the walls of London is lost. Africa is a deadly hall of mirrors, leaving Alpha team riven with dissension and doubt. And the one man who might save the world is crashing to Earth half a world away. Only our greatest warriors can walk through this fire. Betrayal. Chaos. Courage.CATACLYSM
ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood

ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "by far the best damn series of books ever written" ... "the master class of this genre" ... "Fast moving and exciting as hell with a ton of humanity to make you tear up" ... "Absolute thrill ride. Best in this genre by far" ... "Blows World War Z out of the water" ... "a knock down drag out kick ass read - the best ZA book series around, period" ... "terrifying, heroic, and tragic" ... "totally stunning in its originality" ... "thoroughly engrossing, taking you on a wild ride through utter devastation" ... "the best I have ever read in apocalypse fiction of any kind" ... "Riveting. Full of horror and beauty" ... "a jet-pack-strapped-to-your-back thrilling journey of the most epic proportions" ... "The only downside is that each book is not 10,000 pages." ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood is now an Amazon Top 100 overall bestseller (#62) as well as #1 in War and Military and #2 in Dystopian. ARISEN Hope Never Dies LONDON UNDER SIEGE With the tide of dead lapping at the walls of London, Major Jameson must decide whether to roll the dice and lead One Troop on a desperate mission into the fallen Russian Empire, to retrieve a designer pathogen so lethal it even kills the dead... CHAOS ON SHORE Miles over his head and on the precipice of failure and extinction, Wesley must lead an overmatched and under-equipped shore team through biblical fire and flood, to salvage any hope of completing the vaccine in time to save humanity... AFRICA DEVOURS On their final mission, a unified Alpha team fights for the ultimate fate of the world - and for their very survival, trapped at ground zero of the fall of Man, inundated by a deluge of never-before-imagined threats, and knowing that failure in their mission means extinction for the species... Desperation. Heroism. Survival. THE FLOOD
Arisen: Genesis

Arisen: Genesis

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "Wall to wall adrenaline - edge of your seat unputdownable until the very last page" ... "staggeringly good - the most consistently excellent franchise in zombie literature" ... "the best post-apocalyptic military fiction there is" ... "one badass unstoppable bullet train ride" ... "moves like an avalanche" ... "edge of the seat, nail biting, page turning mayhem" ... "had me holding my breath more times than I could count" ... "THE BOSS of the zombie apocalypse genre" ... "The pace and action are breathtaking" ... "the most amazing and intense battle scenes you've ever experienced" ... "rolls along like an out of control freight train" ... "insane propulsive storytelling" ... "left me shaking at the last page" ... "They grab you on the first page and kick your ass through the entire series..." Come back in time with the first ARISEN prequel and live through the beginning of the end of the world... (Can be read as a stand-alone novel, an introduction to the series, or at any point while reading the main series.) Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in the Horn of Africa, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham. He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out - and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America's shadow counter-terror wars. But when another mystery epidemic breaks out, terrifying quickly it reaches a tipping point and chaos descends - and Zack and his team (including two former Team Six SEALs) are trapped between the millstones of the sick and the dying on one side, and heavily armed militias on the other. Soon their "safe" house is in flames, and their only remaining option is to get in their up-armored SUV and try to escape the imploding gravity well of the city, to the safety of the American military base in Djibouti. But by then, will there be anywhere safe left on Earth to escape to?
D-Boys

D-Boys

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Readers call the D-BOYS series: "a high-octane adrenaline-fueled action thrill-ride" ... "pure action" ... "one of the best action thrillers of this year (or any year for that matter)" ... "a riveting, fast paced classic " ... "The Best Techno Military Thriller I have read " ... "Up there with Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin" ... "Awesome " ... "Gripping" ... "Edge of your seat action" ... "What a wild ride I simply could not put this book down" ... "has a real humanity and philosophical side as well" ... "spectacular in so many ways" ... "hi-tech and action in one well-rounded explosive thriller..." The world's most elite counter-terrorist operatorsA cyber-security guru suddenly getting shot at and blown up rather more than usualAnd nuclear-armed terrorists rolling with impunity through a lawless and brutal virtual world The year is now. Islamist terrorists hack into America's most sensitive defense networks, launch chemical weapons attacks on Western cities, and stage a raid on the vulnerable nuclear weapons storage facilities in Pakistan. They are using a massively-multiplayer online video game (or "virtual world") as a platform for planning and rehearsing their attacks - forcing a squad of supremely elite Delta Force operators (reinforced by an info-security expert from the Department of Homeland Security) to go inside the game to fight them. But the fight only begins there. Get ready for breath-stealing action in every known battlespace - clockwork urban safehouse takedowns, combat helicopter assaults, brutal ambushes in the trackless mountains, waterborne SEAL team ops, precision close-quarters battle sequences, and CheyTac Intervention sniper rifle systems that can kill you from a mile and a half away These weapons, tactics, tech, and 21st-century warriors will be unlike anything you've ever read.
Counter-Assault

Counter-Assault

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Readers call the D-BOYS series: "a high-octane adrenaline-fueled action thrill-ride" ... "pure action" ... "one of the best action thrillers of this year (or any year for that matter)" ... "a riveting, fast paced classic " ... "The Best Techno Military Thriller I have read " ... "Up there with Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin" ... "Awesome " ... "Gripping" ... "Edge of your seat action" ... "What a wild ride I simply could not put this book down" ... "has a real humanity and philosophical side as well" ... "spectacular in so many ways" ... "hi-tech and action in one well-rounded explosive thriller..." They are the most capable, committed, and indispensable counter-terrorist operators in the worldThey have no rivals anywhere for skill, speed, ferocity, intelligence, flexibility, and sheer resolveNOW ONE OF THEM IS THE ENEMY Alpha team leader Sergeant Major Eric Rheinhardt is retiring from the Unit - hanging up his guns and jockeying a desk at the Pentagon. But just when he thought he was out, a ghost has emerged from his past (along with a lost love), dredging up a secret shame and past-due debt. Much worse, his old mentor and now nemesis Rod "the God" Tucker has turned up on the payroll of the messianic Iranian mullahs - training their proxy fighters in Hamas and Hizbullah, purchasing cyberwar talent and fissile material from the Chinese... and laying the groundwork for the fall of the Third Temple, the modern state of Israel. The explosive collision of these two legendary operators will ultimately embroil Israeli special forces, Chinese hackers, squadrons of D-boys, Tier-1 SEAL teams, CIA paras, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, hyper-skilled jihadis, and Iranian Revolutionary Guards - all in a no-holds-barred street fight for survival. Before it's over, the battlespace will be littered with armed robots, stealth drones, a nuclear-cruise-missile-armed submarine, a hijacked Soviet warship, shrieking helicopter crashes, radiological rocket attacks, hacker duels to the death (literally), vendettas, betrayals, reversals, feints, diversions, double crosses, disasters, assassination attempts, one-in-a-million shots at victory, and unstoppable kill-crazy rampages. Get ready for COUNTER-ASSAULT - where the action, tactics, high stakes, and blasts of sheer adrenaline assault off the page, and do not relent. The D-Boys will return in 2021 in CLOSE QUARTERS BATTLE - the third salvo in Michael Stephen Fuchs' series of high-concept, high-tech special operations military adventure novels.]
ARISEN, Book Eleven - Deathmatch

ARISEN, Book Eleven - Deathmatch

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "A masterpiece" ... "Riveting and mind blowing" ... "Beyond thrilling" ... "Relentless - Fuchs is a master of turning the screws" ... "absolutely the finest storytelling I have ever had the pleasure to read" ... "The writing is incredible, and the level of action is absolutely unmatched" ... "There are truly no words to describe how wonderful this Arisen series is" ... "What a wild breathtaking ride" ... "if you haven't read this series - You. Are. Missing. Out." ... "The Game of Thrones of the Zombie Apocalypse" ... "don't let Master Gunny Fick get killed or we riot " ... "moves along at the breakneck pace of a runaway freight train" ... "Dynamic, inspired, enthralling - this series of books is a treasure" ... "magnificent" ... "spellbinding" ... "Unstoppable..." ARISEN, Book Eleven - Deathmatch is now a #1 bestseller in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, #1 in Dystopian Science Fiction, #1 in Military Science Fiction, and #1 in War Fiction. Humanity's most fearsome enemy is no longer death. ALPHA AND MARSOC MEET THEIR MATCH Lurking in the bush is the dark shadow cast by the operators - a terrifying force every bit their equal in skill, ferocity, and sheer resolve... but utterly unconstrained by humanity, compassion, or brotherhood. Now, to complete their mission and save the world, the operators will have to pay with their lives, or their souls, or possibly both... ONE TROOP DESCENDS INTO HELL Rolling the dice on a last-ditch plan to save London by retrieving the Kazakh's zombie-annihilating virus, Jameson leads his last best men into the dragon's den - an underground bunker home to the savage and hyper-skilled Spetsnaz Alfa group. Getting out alive is a million-to-one shot - and then their real problems begin... THE KENNEDY IS BURNING The world's deadliest maritime commando force were made homeless when their battlecruiser went to the bottom of the Atlantic. Now they're looking for payback - and a replacement nuclear-powered warship. But not only is the whole JFK in play - so is Dr. Park, his vaccine design, and thus the fate of the entire world... ARISEN Hope Never Dies.
ARISEN, Book Twelve - Carnage

ARISEN, Book Twelve - Carnage

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "unrelenting, unflinching, and unputdownable" ... "a tour de force" ... "Electrifying, Thrilling, and Heart-Stopping" ... "brutally fast, intense, intelligent, interesting and just brilliant" ... "as exciting and intense as any book I have read" ... "thrill ride at Mach 2 with the Top Down" ... "not only the best zombie apocalypse series in print, it's also better than any military classic written by Clancy, Coyle or Poyer" ... "the best thing to happen to this genre" ... "the new Gold Standard - by far the most thoughtful and intriguing zombie series ever written" ... "All I can possibly say is, thank you for the Canadian flaming zombie machine gunner" ... "moves a mile a minute" ... "I have to know what happens next Now " ... "I have run out of hyperbole and adjectives for this series" ... "would have given it 13 stars" ... "an apocalyptic magnum opus" ... "a continual heart attack..." ARISEN, Book Twelve - Carnage is now a #1 bestseller in Dystopian Science Fiction, #1 in War & Military Action Fiction, and an Amazon overall Top 100 bestseller. ALPHA TEAM LOOKS THE DEVIL IN THE EYEAfter recovering Patient Zero, Alpha must escape Africa to end the ZA once and for all. But they can feel the hot breath of a reinforced and vengeful Spetsnaz team on their necks - and there can be no escaping the reckoning of an ultimate sniper showdown between Ali and Vasily, and an incomparably brutal iron-cage Texas deathmatch between Predator and Misha. For the first time, all the teams will come together and must fight as brothers, for any chance of making it back to Britain. And only one thing is certain - not everyone is walking away from this one... ONE TROOP RALLIES AGAINST DECIMATION AND DEFEATAfter rescuing Aliyev, One Troop is pinned down in Red Square between a surging singularity and the merciless killers of Spetsnaz Alfa Group. They're about to lose their second aircraft, they still don't have the zombie-killing MZ, and the clock is ticking down on their pinhole of escape. Only the most vicious and desperate gambit can give them a chance of saving London, not to mention themselves - but Jameson refuses to fail... THE CREW OF THE KENNEDY BATTLES BACKWith the bridge and most critical stations held by the world's deadliest maritime commando force, and Dr. Park pinned down by a smash-mouth battle and last stand in the ship's hospital, time is running out for the shellshocked and outgunned crew of the JFK to fight back. The ultimate heroism and sacrifice of everyone from storekeepers all the way up to Commander Drake himself will be required to fight their way back from the brink... Defiance. Valor. Consecration.CARNAGE
Arisen: Last Stand

Arisen: Last Stand

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Independently Published
2019
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "thoroughly engrossing, taking you on a wild ride through utter devastation" ... "Wall to wall adrenaline - edge of your seat unputdownable until the very last page" ... "a once in a lifetime experience. Nothing else matches it" ... "the most amazing and intense battle scenes you've ever experienced" ... "rolls along like an out of control freight train" ... "They grab you on the first page and kick your ass through the entire series" ... "You feel like the explosions are going off beside your head" ... "Every time I think it cannot get any better, BAM " ... "Blows World War Z out of the water" ... "The Game of Thrones of the Zombie Apocalypse" ... "roars out of the gate at 200mph and just keeps going" ... "dials the volume to the point of annihilating the sound system" ... "The most complex, character-driven series I've ever read regardless of genre" ... "quite simply, the most exciting and intense series of books I have ever read. Nothing comes close" ... "A superb ending to an absolutely mesmerizing and phenomenal series. This was an experience I'll never forget." One platoon of Rangers from a legendary regiment.An isolated combat outpost in the Spin Ghar mountains.150 Taliban survivors - armed with Tier-1 weapons...And all the rampaging dead guys in central Asia. B Company, 3rd Bat, 75th Ranger Regiment - a unit that's fought in every U.S. engagement from D-Day to Black Hawk Down. They are the last American boots on the ground in the entire Syrian civil war... on the last day before the Fall of human civilization. When they are tasked with stopping a unit of Spetsnaz operators from inserting under the chaos, an advanced Russian Navy frigate becomes the last place left on Earth for the Rangers to find refuge. Now, after six months held captive as scavenging mercenaries for Spetsnaz, to earn their freedom they will have to take on the most hazardous shore mission in the entire history of the ZA. Welcome to the Zulu Alpha Devastation. Devotion. Sacrifice.LAST STAND ARISENHope Never Dies.
Arisen: Odyssey

Arisen: Odyssey

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Independently Published
2018
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "Simply magnificent" ... "a work of relentless perfection" ... "a once in a lifetime experience. Nothing else matches it" ... "Pure genius - the most awesome series in any genre" ... "Life consuming" ... "Absolutely stunning" ... "a tour de force " ... "enthralling" ... "setting the bar at level that others can only dream of" ... "dials the volume to the point of annihilating the sound system" ... "hands down the best special forces characters ever imagined" ... "Glorious, Raw, Breathtaking, Poetic" ... "the greatest series of books ever written" ... "I highly doubt any other author will come close to establishing such an engrossing universe" ... "The most complex, character-driven series I've ever read regardless of genre" ... "Implanted in my brain forever" ... "quite simply, the most exciting and intense series of books I have ever read. Nothing comes close" ... "A superb ending to an absolutely mesmerizing and phenomenal series. This was an experience I'll never forget." One Tier-1 Naval Special Warfare Operator, trained at the highest levels of any military, with 20+ years of operational experience.One ex-cop civilian survivalist, who lived through two years of post-Apocalyptic Hell, unlike 7 billion of her fellow humans.And an entire continent heaving with 400 million dead guys. To save the lives of his children, and rejoin Alpha team and the fight to save humanity, Homer will have to journey across a thousand miles of undead North America with Sarah Cameron, battling heavily armed bands of marauders who shoot first and ask questions never, and ultimately face down the remains of the world's last surviving SEAL team - now led by a malevolent and piratical monster. Welcome to the Zulu Alpha Desolation. Resolve. Rebirth.ODYSSEY ARISENHope Never Dies.
ARISEN, Book Thirteen - The Siege

ARISEN, Book Thirteen - The Siege

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
#1 bestseller in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and #1 in Military Science Fiction Readers call the ARISEN series: "extreme, fast-paced action at its most violent, explosive, deadly and gripping" ... "totally engrossing" ... "Insanely awesome" ... "by far the best-written most intense series I've encountered" ... "Electrifying" ... "extraordinary" ... "Riveting " ... "still rolling like a juggernaut" ... "simply amazing - is and will be the standard for zombie/action fiction for a long time to come" ... "Hits Like a Sniper Round" ... "Imagine if a roller coaster ride lasted 2 hours" ... "Good God Almighty This is almost too much to take - non-frigging-stop action" ... "Right when I think it can't get any more exciting, it does" ... "full-on military badassery" ... "Mind blowing" ... "There are no adjectives left for how good this series is" ... "Like a Michael Bay movie on steroids" ... "like trying to ride a bronco in a tornado" ... "roars out of the gate at 200mph and just keeps going" ... "Action, frustration, fear, laughter, sadness, and hope. MSF is a gift..." There's Nowhere Left To Hide. THE BATTLE FOR THE GAPIn the north, the collapsed section of the Wall is defended only by the decimated remains of 2 PARA. Even reinforced by Jameson and the exhausted Royal Marines of One Troop, it's a doomed delaying action at best - and the last choke point in the entire ZA faces an incoming tide of dead stretching to the ends of the Earth... THE RACE FOR THE CUREFinally united, Dr. Park and Aliyev the Kazakh, supported by Pred and Juice on a mission out into a London falling into chaos, struggle to perfect the vaccine that will preserve the dwindling flame of humanity - and to weaponize the designer pathogen that might just destroy the rampaging armies of the dead... THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMOHunkered down at CentCom, the unified ranks of our heroes, led by Ali and Fick, work furiously to fortify and reinforce what will be humanity's final fallback position - forever. But it may be over before it begins, as a runner invasion from the south hits even before the great wave of death coming in from the north... Brotherhood. Duty. Desolation.THE SIEGE ARISENHope Never Dies.
ARISEN, Book Fourteen - ENDGAME

ARISEN, Book Fourteen - ENDGAME

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
nidottu
Readers call the ARISEN series: "absolute masterpieces" ... "The best book I have ever read Apart from the other eleven. We are privileged to read this series" ... "No one comes out of this book the same" ... "You have to remind yourself to breathe" ... "I keep repeating myself, but this is the best series of books of any genre I've ever read" ... "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ANYMORE I JUST DON'T - This is the best military fiction series ever written Hands down" ... "If you haven't read these you need to reevaluate your life" ... "JUST WHEN YOU THINK THIS SERIES CAN'T GET ANY BETTER, IT DOES" ... "continues to blow my mind" ... "Just sheer unstoppable awesomeness" ... "beyond intense" ... "painfully good" ... "spellbinding" ... "insanely well written" ... "A work of art - a beautiful, smart, tension-filled experience that will leave you both exhausted and grateful, filled with such astonishing richness and depth" ... "HOLY SH HOOLLY SH What a ride explosive thrilling Words fail me..." This Is It. ALPHA TEAM GOES ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH On what will be their final missions ever in the Zulu Alpha - and the fight of their lives - Homer & Ali, and Predator & Juice, launch out into the terminal post-Apocalypse, as London is overrun by the very last rush of death covering the entire planet. Neither mission can fail, but can all four teammates survive? Or will some go down safeguarding the lives of those they love more than life itself...? HANDON FIGHTS HIS WAY BACK FROM THE DEAD As reinforcements flood into CentCom, ahead of the onslaught of the undead world, one man lies in a coma at the heart of humanity's final fallback position. But will the ghosts of all those who've fallen before, and the love of those who yet remain, be enough to bring him back to life, and back to the fight, in time to lead the final battle...? THE LAST SURVIVORS MAN THE ALAMO OF THE ALAMO As CentCom is overrun, and it all collapses and the screen goes black, the last heroes of humanity have one final chance to save the world. But as they cling to one another in their shrinking circle of life, will they be able pull it off in the final seconds, from the mast of the last sinking ship in a world submerged in a sea of death...? Love. Death. The End Of The Line. ENDGAME
Don't Shoot Me In The Ass, And Other Stories

Don't Shoot Me In The Ass, And Other Stories

Michael Stephen Fuchs

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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By turns heart-stopping, hilarious, and profound, here are ten rollicking tales of action and technology - from the author of the bestselling ARISEN and D-Boys series. When the shit comes down in a California civil unrest, one man is tooled up and ready to rock - but soon finds himself driving his motorcycle into a flaming roadblock with a mysterious federal agent chick on the back firing an assault rifle over his shoulder...Nice-guy hitman Johnny Chen knows that when things don't go well, they go very poorly - and the only way out of the gunfight on this rooftop is straight over the edge and into the lion's den...A corporate takeover in the topsy-turvy world of the dot-com boom leads a burnt-out sysadmin to start confusing the Nerf missile launchers with more dangerous toys...An elite (plus hot) Silicon Valley cryptographer finds her job on a collision course with government black-ops - and all hell breaking loose with Chinese and Israelis in a balls-out firefight in her company's server room...These stories ripple with two-fisted gunplay, white-knuckle computer hacking, and the absurdity of high-tech existence. But beneath the surface, powerful themes underpin the action: the effects of science and technology on our understanding of philosophy and religion (and sex); the quiet capitulation of isolated young men and women who are very handy with computers, guns, or both; and the meaning of our commitments to other people, especially when things begin to fall apart.