War in Heaven

VETERAN was a slam-bang dive into a violent SF future. Now things get serious. The never-ending war with Them might be over. Now humanity turns on itself . . . I should be dead. The war with the aliens. Them. It's over. Now we turn on ourselves. Human fighting human again, when we came so close to wiping ourselves out the last time and the bad guys, the true bastards like Rolleston, Cronin and the Grey Lady, hold all the cards. God may control the net, privacy is dead, but Demiurge is coming. We don't stand a chance. I've had enough. No more fighting for my life, last ditch assaults, putting my mostly machine body back together again. No more desperate chases, nearly dying in space when the integrity of the exo-armour starts to give. No more fear... I've pushed my luck too far. I'm out. This isn't my war, even if it means I've lost her. Just one last piece of revenge. But things never go as I plan. If I could only stop thinking about Morag. Jakob Douglas, damaged soldier and unlikely hero, returns in another pulse-pounding adventure from Gavin Smith, author of the widely acclaimed Veteran 'Mind-expanding concepts, imaginative aliens and provocative themes' SFX www.gavingsmith.com 978 0 575 09472 7 £8.99 [cover for Veteran] The high-powered sequel to VETERAN sees an unlikely hero make an even more unlikely return to take the reader back into a vividly rendered bleak future. But a bleak future where there are still wonders: man travelling out into the universe, Bladerunneresque cities hanging from the ceilings of vast caverns, aliens that we can barely comprehend. Gavin Smith writes fast-moving, incredibly violent SF thrillers but behind the violence and the thrills lies a carefully thought out story and characters who have far more to them than first meets the eye. Never one to avoid controversy Gavin Smith nevertheless invites you to think beyond the initial shock of what you have just read. But in the meantime? Another fire-fight, another chase another flight of imagination.