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Chapter 12 – Criminal
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Sam walked into the office in Chicago Police Headquarters. “Superintendent Howell?”
“Yes. Please call me Gary, Sam.” A big smile creased his brown face below his glasses and bald head.
“Sure, Gary.”
“I’ve prepared a briefing for you. Here are the videos in time order.” Superintendent Howell pushed a button on his computer, and a wall-sized screen lit up, playing a black-and-white security video. A man wearing a ski mask punched a car window, opened the door, and took out a computer bag and a cell phone.
“That was the first crime. Here’s the next.” The same man knocked out a store’s plate-glass window and grabbed a television.
Sam watched all twelve videos with Gary Howell. They all happened late at night, all the break-ins done by the man’s fist. In the last video, taken from a policeman’s body camera, the man was shot, and he stumbled but kept running and vaulted over a six-foot barbed-wire fence, clearing it with a foot to spare.
“Whoa! I can see why zombiism is suspect number one.”
“Yes. We never found the bullets that were shot, and our video analysis show the man was hit in the leg and the back.”
“And then did the Olympic high-jump stunt.”
“Yes. We also analyzed his speed before the jump. Thirty miles per hour.”
“So an Olympic sprinter as well as a jumper. Have you interviewed any decathletes in Chicago?”
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Five-year-old Nadia has Hobson’s choice: become a slave to malevolent Elven Mage Morvilind and have him heal her dying brother; or have her brother die and become orphaned as the only remaining member of her family.
Nadia saves her brother’s life and begins arduous training as a thief for the mage. He sends her to get magical and historic artifacts for his collection. Her failure would mean her brother dies, as well as herself.
Then comes the greatest challenge of all–stealing a magical tablet from a billionaire. What’s worse, there’s another mysterious agent prowling around as well. And he has no shadow.
On to the good stuff! If you’ve seen Poultrtgeist: Night of the Chicken Dead or Thankskilling and liked them, you’ll LOVE this. The sarcasm is there, the humor is dark and twisted, and our killer Tom Turkey wakes up every day feeling great and ready to see who he can kill in the state of Illinois with his massive flock of wild and domesticated zombie turkeys.
I loved this book. The end is a bit predictable given the fact that it’s a series, but it’s definitely the predictable you’d expect from something like this. I think this book would make a great low-budget movie like the two I mentioned earlier; and let’s be realistic, thanksgiving is a pretty much open holiday in the book and movie business.
I give this book 4 of 5 Paws and I look forward to reading the rest of this series.
I enjoyed The Big Easy novella enough that I was disappointed when it ended. But on the other hand, it didn’t seem to have the same stakes and tension the other novels in the series had. So I rated it as an Average, three-star apocalyptic fantasy.
I consider RPG novels as fantasies since they involve magic.
My rating scale: 5 stars = best of the genre, still selling after 50 years. 4 stars = above average for the genre 3 stars = average for the genre 2 stars = below average for the genre 1 star = execrable, not worth reading.
Finally, Your Fourth Review #4
Secret Supers in Space: The further adventures of disabled teen superheroes
I met Andy Zack at ChambanaCon several years ago. I walked by his sales table looking for something to read in the hotel room. The title “Zombie Turkeys” caught my eye so I bought a copy. I read it and found him to be so interesting that I sought him out again and we talked about the setting of that book. He knew all the places that I knew and described them accurately. I then bought all his new books as they came out, and I am now one of his biggest fans! I hope he keeps writing because I brag about him to my friends and family, and I want to add to my Life After Life and Secret Supers collections! I’ll buy everything he ever writes!
Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books and Reviews. These are best books I’ve read and reviewed this month, or someone else’s opinion.
Here’s a review you’ll only find here, since the book is only on RoyalRoad.com, not Amazon or Goodreads.com. The good news is that the book is free!
Your August SciFi > In Enemy Hands
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This is a mamoth series, of over 350 chapters released over the last two years. It’ll be published soon as multiple books.
The book blurb: The Butcher of Gadobhra
Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it’s getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market place
Everyone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.
Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can’t go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don’t have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years….or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.
When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules.
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My Review
This is the first book I’ve read by the Walrus King. It’s a classic RPG (Role Playing Game) set up: a dystopian world where the poor a placated by putting the in pods where they can spend all their time in a virtual game world.
A group of friends has played previous gaes and eavesdrops on a virtual conference about a new game from ‘The Genesis Engine. It’s more realistic than ever before, inseparable from reality. So the gamers all join together as some of the first players.
The company, Acme, rooks them by making it impossible to free lance and gain points. They have to work. The company has given the crazy strength and endurance and immunity to boredom and depression so they can work sixteen hours, sleep four, and be happy.
Most weapons are not allowed. Everything is stacked against them. But our intrepid band of gamers outschemes the schemers through sheer hard work.
You get the general idea of the characters and their approach in the first few chapters. They make steady progress, but hide it from the company.
Complexities ensue, as they get better and better at dungeon diving.
Fun Read. Andy’s take on Zombies is fresh, unique, and above all… entertaining. A group of zombies working for the US Government but not employed by the government get up to a lot of mischief taking out Crime Lords, more Crime Lords, and aliens. Who know that Zombies had hobbies like knitting and scrapbooking? The Korean adventure is a highlight of the story.
U.S. Marshal James Creed has known loss, starting from the untimely death of his wife and daughter in a sudden fire. His work, chasing down and arresting outlaws across the Wild West, is all he has left to live for. Then one day, in 1876, the infamous killer Corwin Blake catches Creed by surprise and guns him down.
Creed awakes after a mysterious young woman resurrects him in a basement laboratory beneath a brothel. Half alive, Creed feels torn between his need for justice and his desire to fall back into the peace of death. Creed’s instincts drive him to protect the city of Santa Cruz, California, from the outlaws it harbors while searching for Blake.
He uncovers a secret criminal organization, likely protecting Blake, determined to use resurrection technology for its own ends. The former marshal, now faster, stronger, and a more deadly shot than ever before, must work with a brothel madam, a bounty hunter, and the remaining marshals to uncover the criminal syndicate before they can misuse the machines of rebirth and create more mindless zombies. Meanwhile, he must also stop Blake, before the outlaw kills the only people he cares about.
His own death can wait.
Your October SciFi Fantasy Review
After a slow start, this novel took off and I finished well-satisfied with it.
I didn’t care much for the characters at first, they seemed somewhat underdeveloped. Perhaps more backstory or flashbacks would have helped. But as they went through adventures together, you cared more and more about each.
I especially liked the last half of the book when author Jonathan Fesmire gave the villain’s point of view. This humanized them and made them seem more realistic.
I recommend this book for lovers of historical fiction and steampunk, mixed with magic and zombies.
Kathi Clements
