Novels

Null Trigger (Coming 2028)

Bruce Thorne wants to forget who he was. But after a lifetime dispensing extra-judicial remedies for his country, it seems forgetting’s not an option. He’s still very much in demand.

Dina Kaminska’s had posthuman elites playing with her life in the background before. This time they’re not even hiding it. But they’re about to discover, she’s not the helpless girl she once was. She might have to dance for them, but it’ll be to her own tune.

Cyborg veteran Jenson Collins survived the Endless War. Now he has months to live. All he wants is to prepare his daughter for life without him. Turns out life has other ideas, for both of them.

Three reluctant players. Three paths, about to collide in a game of winner-takes-all. But this is post-truth 2064, where even your reality can be deepfaked, and nothing is ever quite as it seems.  

And it might not just be their futures at stake in the game. It might be all of humanity’s. 

Safe State (2025)

The Winter of Disconnect shattered Britain and stole Jas McDonnell’s childhood. She survived. Millions didn’t.

Now Jas manages survivor’s guilt with electromagnetic emotional correction, artificially induced reality, and good old chemical escape. She scrapes a living under the unblinking lenses of storybirds, hoping to trigger their interest algorithms and stream a few moments of her life to poverty-voyeurs in the transhumanist playground of Grand London.

But when a truckload of illegal bio-fabricators arrives in her backwater town, life turns upside-down for Jas. The posthuman demigods in the capital are definitely watching now. And her real-time soap opera is about to become a horror movie.

Safe State is grimy post-cyberpunk for readers who love the deep immersion of William Gibson’s The Peripheral, the bleakly real tech extrapolations of Daniel Suarez’s Change Agent, and the dark British cynicism of Charles Stross’s classic Accelerando. In an age where we fear what our machines and AI will become, Safe State asks: shouldn't we be more afraid of what we’ll become ourselves?

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Amazon

No Good Deed (2019)

The legend of Crow is fading. MI6’s most notorious fixer has disappeared. Rumours abound in the covert realm. He’s retired in Mexico. He’s languishing in Evin prison. He’s dead at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Bruce Thorne knows the rumours aren’t true. After all, he started most of them.

He doesn’t want to be Crow any more. But when he agrees to track down a friend’s missing daughter, he finds a trail of deception that threatens to drag him back into the underworld he thought he’d escaped.

Thorne’s used to being haunted by his past. But now it’s hunting him, that’s different. Maybe that legend hasn’t faded fast enough. Because he’s about to discover that it’s not just the girl’s survival at stake. It’s his own.

An intricate plot set in motion by the compelling opening scene unravels towards an inevitable, multi-sided showdown. With its thinking–feeling hero and relatable supporting cast, No Good Deed is an enjoyably different kind of thriller. Highly recommended!" (Amazon 5-Star Review Nov 2021)

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Amazon