No Rules of Engagement: New eBook Only £1.49

Feb. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Synopsis:

For eight year old orphan, Alexander Hawk, the question, "Is there other Intelligent life in the Universe?" has been answered with a resounding YES!

Plucked from a correctional facility for boys because of a test he never even finished, Alexander is sent to train for combat against an alien race of Alligators which is attacking another group of aliens, the Macktonics, who have allied with United States in return for advanced technology.

The United States' gathers an army of children so they will arrive at the perfect age for fighting. Alexander faces gruelling training exercises as he struggles to rise to the challenge of preparing to save the placid Macktonic alien civilization from pending attack. Before his training is complete he comes face to face with the enemy.

Alexander becomes student and teacher as they square off against a superior aggressor. Travelling through time portals crossing time and space to gain intelligence, and ultimately to hunt down their foe before they attack the Macktonics.

Excerpt
C-455 felt the contents of his breakfast rise in his throat as he waited for the head speaker of the Macktonic High Council to introduce him to the body of delegates. In his position of Planetary Security Chief, what he had to say would affect all of their futures and their existence as a race. What he waited to announce was grave and radical, but he needed their support to continue.

“Members, I give you C-455.”
“Over the past sixty-five cycles, our satellite colony Mackton Two has been overrun by the Raptors. As near as we can surmise the entire population has expired.”

The chamber erupted into pandemonium. Everyone talked and shouted at once each trying to be heard over the rest until T-65, the Supreme High Council, raised his hand restoring the order to the body.

“Decorum! Council members, quiet down, and follow protocol, please.”

Everyone took their seats and C-455 continued. He knew it was only the beginning. In a civilization such as theirs, such things were unfathomable.

“We lost 8.3 billion of our citizens and our first colonized planet. They are the same group which ravaged our neighbouring solar systems seven years ago and they have now moved into ours. They are organized and attacked various sites with perfectly orchestrated timing.”

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Author Thomas Wilson loves writing himself into corners and getting stuck while writing!  It gives him a chance to think his way out of the problem and has provided some of the most intriguing twists and turns in his books. Thomas’s book Whisper is also available from http://www.ink-slinger.com

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