In a world where everyone is either a criminal or a victim.
Earth was ravaged by wars, chemicals and radiation. A green sludge borders every city, town and population. Governments have fallen but corporations thrived. The poor are subject to the greed of the few Elites.
The final chapter in the Robin Luddites Trilogy, Darius Jones struggles with the demons of his past and present while his friends are suffering. For the Jones family, it is a bad week.
A child is kidnapped, Gus is arrested and tortured; Rose is enslaved by her contract. The Jones family struggles through a dangerous world. They are hunted, captured and attacked by many enemies. Some enemies they never knew they had.
Darius Jones and Wimpy leave New Orleans to search for the kidnapped child and rescue Rose from a Robin Luddite. On the way to save Rose, Darius discusses his hopes with a unique Breed, a creature that sees more than the simple horizon of horrors, a brighter future that eludes Darius.
Sonya rushes to save her friend from Dallas who is suffering under LORD experiments. On the way to his rescue she is captured in Casino Town. She has to find a way to rescue herself and her brother before it is too late for them all.
The Jones family come to Dallas to face the enemies that have attempted to obstruct their return. They must face old and new challenges to save their friends. Darius must find a way to protect the boy and win Rose’s affection while trying to evade the contracts issued on their heads. He faces the LORDs who had conspired to kill his brothers and now are torturing his friend Gus. The last time he was in Dallas, he had paved the road for corruption to filter in, and his brother Humvey is in the center of it all.
Tracking them, Detective Graves stalks them so he can prevent Darius from saving the child. A future is hidden in the child’s DNA that the cruel Graves does not want revealed, or harnessed.
Contains adult situations, language, violence and sexual content.
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Excerpt:
To most people, the Earth became a prison, an institution for the insane. The sane were saved and placed in enclosed rooms with padded walls. People were shackled by their DNA. The Elite ousted the Breeds from their personal spaces, isolated behind corporations, walls and computers as the Breeds roamed free amongst the devastation. A Breed could only progress so far up the ladder before an Elite would knock him down the rungs.
The wars were a cause for the sludge, an unimaginable carnage that swept across the planet. So many deaths and fears had impacted the surviving races that the images of war became soft glimmers to their minds; the survivors tried to bury the violent thoughts into recesses. No one discussed these thoughts and images, like cancers infecting their souls. The wars were a taboo that no one understood and everyone rejected.
The sun fought against the clouds. Every time a strand of light penetrated beyond their pink and green plumes, the clouds swallowed the light up.
A broken highway curved out of the horizon and turned towards the south. Three helicopters flocked towards the south, chasing a ballistic car down the crumbling highway. The car veered, crashed, tumbled, rolled, flipped upright and then continued to race southward. The helicopter gun ports erupted with 25 mm bullets and shredded the vehicle. The occupants and the last pieces of car were tossed off the highway and dumped into the sludge.
Along the highway, the train roared down the I20 tracks, dispersing wafts of green haze that had drifted across the rusted rails. The single car wobbled while speeding a thousand meters above ground.
Below it, green sludge ebbed chaotically, containing the trapped dead souls, still exchanging violence within the folds of forgotten wars and governments. The sludge blanketed the Earth like a gnarled and prickly afghan, an evolutionary disease, a reminder of Human loss, accused of causing the Breeds’ mutation into half animals.
by Jax E. Garson
Copyrighted material: 2012, 2013, 2015
