Book Excerpt
Colin had that usual nervous feeling stinging in
the middle of his stomach while he was riding in the front seat
of the new car that the CID had given him, Diane, and Kelly. Finally we get a vehicle
of our own. No more having to depend on
shuttles, taxis, or the subway to get around, he mused. The only drawback to this was having Diane as a driver. Impulsive and bad tempered, she’d just
received her driver’s license two weeks ago. Even
with the tight safety belt strapped across his torso, Colin was
still not feeling secure as he watched Diane jerk the steering
wheel to the left and right in order to weave in and out of the four
lanes of traffic on the streets of Navarone to reach their destination.
Colin imagined that Kelly, riding in the back seat, was feeling the
same way – and maybe car sick too. He looked a little
green in the face, not a good color for his blond hair he’d recently had cut in
a shorter style. Over the sound of their car’s wailing siren, Colin
heard Kelly yip as they came up close and fast to another vehicle. Diane
swerved at the last
moment to avoid a collision.
I
should have gotten my license before Diane, Colin scolded himself. He looked over at her wearing a black
tee‐shirt and jeans, with a broad smile on her face. The white sneaker
on her right foot shifted frequently from the brake to the
accelerator pedal. With the air from the open window blowing through her long
black hair, she looked like she was on a joy ride, except for the
large laser pistol holstered at her right hip.
“Do you mind slowing down?” Colin asked. “We want
to at least get there alive.”
“Slow down?” Diane teased with a laugh. “We have
to get there before those Reploid jackasses kill the
hostages. You heard the report. Their hour deadline is almost up!”
“I know,” Colin replied sourly. What a way to start the morning!
Twenty minutes ago, he was sleeping in his
quarters back at the military base when he was awakened by a phone
call from CID
Captain Melony Carter, informing him that
Vendetta terrorists had taken several civilians hostage in an office
building and were threatening to kill them, then detonate a nuclear
bomb that was hidden somewhere in Navarone, unless the
government agreed to release Vendetta operatives from the penal moon
Taraxis in the Tacoma System. Carter also reported that one of
the terrorists was observed using paranormal abilities – Reploid
abilities. And that was why he and Diane and Kelly had been called.
Their team, the Silencers, was the only defense against Reploids,
because they were Reploids too, reconditioned and turned against
Vendetta to serve
the Protectorate.
About the Book
Title: Obliteration
Author: Barry K. Nelson
Genre: Science-Fiction
The three reprogrammed Brelac Reploids
forming the special team Silencers still faithfully serve the United
Protectorate under the watchful monitoring of the Central Intelligence
Division. Stationed on Maseklos Prime, Colin McKenzie, Diane Christy,
and Kelly Lytton are called to a hostage scene and end up with clues
that lead to the elusive Dr. Arthur Trevors. Although initially a
traitor who worked undercover with the Brelac, Trevors was in large part
responsible for the capture and reprogramming of Colin, Diane, and
Kelly so they could serve their current function as weapons for the
Protectorate. The war with the Brelac is not going well, and the
Silencers are given an advanced warp-drive ship and sent beyond their
home quadrant, Poseidon, to the last known coordinates of a missing
ship. Their mission is to locate the missing ship, part of an original
task force of five ships sent out to find other human colonies and
enlist their help with the war against the Brelac. As soon as Colin and
his team leave the quadrant, they run into trouble, and things go
downhill from there. They find themselves in the midst of a war between
local factions on a planet far from home and feel obliged to aid the
human faction against a clearly superior force that seems to have help
from a monster who leaves a wake of death and destruction wherever it
goes. The more they find out, the weirder things get, and they end up
stranded with no way home, much less any hope of completing their
original mission to find the lost task force ship. This new enemy they
face seems invincible, and they wonder if they’ll survive as everything
and everyone around them is destroyed. Maybe this time not even their
Reploid powers will save them. But what other hope does humanity have?
Author Bio
A
Pennsylvania native, Barry K. Nelson has attended college and has
worked at a variety of jobs, including retail and the corporate
environment. Barry enjoys reading and gardening and is a fan of science
fiction and horror movies, Marvel comic collecting, and the X-box 360.
Barry has written short stories, and his
first book in the science fiction series, The McKenzie Files, is soon
to be followed by a sequel, Assassination Anxiety.
Barry is a member of Ning and Goodreads, can be found on Facebook, and can also be reached through Penumbra Publishing.
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