Departure

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The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. & from this safe distance the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people & too few resources & they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilised. So corruption is rife people starve & the poor are policed by mechanised overseers & identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry taking carnage to a new level. This is the world Alan Saul wakes to travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn't know but he remembers pain & his tormentor's face. He also has company: Janus a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope he resolves to annihilate the Committee & their regime. Once he's discovered who he was & killed his interrogator.. .' Full-tilt action sequences.. . Delivers plenty of thrills' SFX ' Fast dramatic stuff.. .definitely not one for the faint hearted' SFFWorld.com 'I had an absolute blast with this book.. .his work really does get better & better' Falcata Times blog