Sci-Noir — Cyber-Pulp — Action-Adventure — Comedy
This is adult entertainment combining hard science, soft sex and satire, for the geeky and not-so-geeky masses; a mix of action-adventure with elements of fantasy and comedy, featuring sabotage, a shape shifter, sex, drugs, high-stake casinos, and espionage.
The current storyline Quest for the Cardinal Stone is being told in a eight book arc, and will be available as two perfect-bound trades, Volume One (chapters 1-4) and Volume Two (chapters 5-8).
There are numerous spin-offs and many further adventures in store for this offbeat universe with it’s rich backstory and dynamic artwork.
CHAPTER 1
Commencing Countdown
Sex clubs, lethal drug-abusing aliens, high-stakes poker, hot babes and Tasmanian devils pulled out of a hat — all in a days work for team Argent.
Rey Zyten, a shape-shifting alien gambler on the lam from off-world mobsters, lands in the Nevada desert, hunting for good odds and easy marks. Rogue super-spy Lazarus Stern, 83 miles away, steals an alien artifact from a secret government facility. Back in NYC an extraterrestrial saboteur by the name of Sixtwo makes dark deals in the flesh-bars of Manhattan, tangling his earth mission into knots and screwing his career as a covert agent for The Code.
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CHAPTER 2
Seven On Earth
Argent finally reveals his astonishing origins to Mrs. Thorne; a scout ship from 45 light years away, mixed species parentage, Area 57, and a son’s promise to his father.
Flashback: The Code‘s first mission on Earth, and a 1962 government cover-up.
Meanwhile, grifter shifter Rey Zyten is on a hot streak with hot showgirls in New Vegas’ casinos. Cruising the outer limits of identity theft, he samples humans, morphing into anyone ripe for a con.
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CHAPTER 3
Cracked Actor
Super-grifter shape-shifter, Rey Zyten, is cruising the outer limits of identity theft in New Vegas. Time for a Cyg City flashback to see why the ‘Blue Bastard’ opted to flee the busiest megalopolis in the Cygnus system and play dead.
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CHAPTER 4
Cyg City Blues
Argent and his team search for the Cardinal Stone, a stolen alien artifact under his family’s protection for the last 100 years. While he casts his tech-spells beneath Manhattan, Mrs. Thorne climbs skyscrapers, kick’s ass and dodges scorpions in the streets above.
Meanwhile, Rey Zyten feels his luck running dry, and heads out of New Vegas leaving a smoking mess in his wake.
Argent must enter the legendary poker match known as the Deca-Game. All he needs to produce is a ‘priceless, one-of-a-kind, near-mythical’ stake to wager, and he’s in.
It’s alive! BoB Sixtwo, drugged to the gills, finally wakes up and smells the rocket fuel. Will he finally get it together or will his bosses throw him into the dreaded synaptic behavioral rehab tank?
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CHAPTER 5
Station To Station
Mrs. Thorne digs up intel and trouble at the Scorpion Bar while making new friends, and beating the crap out of people.
Argent levitates outside the Soho loft windows of an extraterrestrial saboteur, and makes plans to enter the covert and unorthodox poker game going down at Chang’s Empire Casino. Entering the Deca-Game will only be the beginning of Argent’s troubles.
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CHAPTER 6
Silhouettes & Shadows
Argent and Mrs. Thorne soon discover that there is no honor among these gamblers. The adventure continues as Argent and his companions descend into a vortex of game-changing incidents, when various factions manuever for control of the immeasurably destructive Cardinal Stone.
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CHAPTER 7
Let’s Dance
Argent and Mrs.Thorne and Specter defend the Glen radiation exclusion zone and Argent’s lair, Glenlab.
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CHAPTER 8
Out Of The Blue
Argent and Mrs.Thorne and Specter defend the Glen radiation exclusion zone and Argent’s lair, Glenlab.
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