Rising Tide
Rajan Khanna
Pyr, Oct 6 2015, $17.00
ISBN: 9781633881006
In North America though he knows he did the right thing by saving
the hidden city of Tamoanchan from raiders, airship captain Ben Gold hurts over
the loss of his vessel Cherub that was destroyed when he did his first ever heroic deed (see Falling Sky).
Instead of a hero’s welcome, Ben awakens from his myriad of injuries
amazed to find his close friend Malik alive; as he thought his buddy died. Irate with his former BFF for abandonment during
a crisis, Malik holds him prisoner while also incarcerating Ben’s beloved
Miranda
Using Miranda as a pawn, Malik demands Ben
do his bidding in the wasteland or else his scientist girlfriend dies. Miranda has been working on a cure to the
pandemic plague that turned much of mankind into the Feral beasts. She wants to test her elixir; but needs Ben
to rescue her team. To do that, they
must escape from Malik at a time when a new deadly disease followed by invaders
attack Tamoanchan occurs.
The second Ben Gold futuristic post-apocalyptic thriller continues
the escapades of an anti-hero who prefers flight over fight though his love for
Miranda has him continually breaking the family Golden Rule of save yourself at
all times. The stark Khanna realm is
filled with Feral zombies, mad friends, terrible diseases that made the
planet’s desolate surface deadly and the air
outside of fortresses treacherous, and horrific marauders as if The Walking
Dead raced into a steampunk world.
Harriet Klausner
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