Prophet of the Badlands (The Awakened Book 1) (72 page)

He will be forced to use his skills and preternatural instincts to try and keep his career, his freedom, and his life.

Division Zero, by Matt Cox
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http://j.mp/1ggujIv
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Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren is not most cops.

Shunned by a society that does not understand psionics and feared by those who know what she can do, Kirsten feels alone in a city of millions.

Unexplained killings by human-like androids known as dolls leave the Division 1 police baffled, causing them to punt the case to Division 0. She tries to hold on to the belief that no one is beyond redemption as she pursues a killer desperate to claim at least one more innocent soul – that might just be hers.

Bone Wires, by Michael Shean
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http://j.mp/Npsr8B
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In the wasteland of commercial culture that is future America, police are operated not by government but by private companies. In Seattle, that role is filled by Civil Protection, and Daniel Gray is a detective in Homicide Solutions. What used to be considered an important—even glamorous—department for public police is very different for the corporate species, and Gray finds himself stuck in a dead end job.

That is, until the Spine Thief arrives.

Prolongment, by Grace Eyre
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http://j.mp/1gL6XgS
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To fund their controversial research, B&E Labs patented a medical process called “Prolongment”, in which very old, wealthy clients can extend their consciousness past death.

Prolongment works by mapping a client’s consciousness and throwing it forward in time. To an outsider, these projections look and behave exactly like ghosts. Now the whole city is terrified by spirits with personal agendas and no moral code left to live by.

A vigilante journalist takes an unpopular stand. A haunting victim gets tangled in a murder plot. A rogue scientist experiments with her own mind. No one escapes the shadow of Prolongment.

The Zona, by Nathan L. Yocum
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http://bit.ly/1w9OTrz
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Welcome to the Arizona Reformed Theocracy, otherwise called THE ZONA. Here the Church rules with absolute power. The laws are simple: all sin is punished swiftly and with deadly wrath. Preachers enforce the Church’s words like old West lawmen. But what happens when a Preacher refuses to kill? What happens when men of honor take a stand against their rulers?

The Zero Point, by Nafeez Ahmed
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http://bit.ly/1dgVbMC
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In a near-future dystopian London on the brink of collapse, a reluctant ex-soldier fighting to clear his name after being framed for the assassination of the Prime Minister uncovers an ancient Nazi conspiracy to unleash imminent Quantum Apocalypse.