Bøger af Joe Prosit

In the year 2112, Federal Agent Chuz Alawode has little to investigate. Under the protection of the all-seeing electric eye of The Order, violence and crime have been reduced to rare anomalies. When people do fall through the cracks of the near-perfect system, Chuz is there to find out what went wrong.But when his wife falls a hundred stories from their Chicago apartment, he's given an assignment far from home. Grieving is not allowed under the Order.Chuz is sent to 99 Town, where the Order and its technology are rejected and chaos reigns. The daughter of two Chicago elites has been murdered, and it's up to Chuz to find the killer. Thrown into a world of dirty streets, vulgar detectives, loud muscle cars, corrupt police, and violent smugglers, he's overwhelmed and ill-equipped. In order to solve the crime and survive in 99 Town, he'll need to forget everything he's ever thought he knew about The Order.

This is not a pessimistic book. It is a book for those who can stare down a dozen existential threats to all of humankind while still enjoying a cocktail.The rise of artificial intelligence, the downfall of democracy, population collapse, the melting ice caps, incoming meteors, disease, famine, nuclear war are all perfectly good reasons to kick back and have a drink. But not just any drink. A drink as fantastic as the catastrophic ends we are all doomed to meet.Inside are time-tested recipes and detailed instructions for the Old Fashioned, the Manhattan, the Margarita, the Martini, the Negroni, and many more classic cocktails to sip under the shade of the mushroom clouds. Cheers!

A murder investigation in an anarchic town that rejects technology, harbors corruption, and embraces chaos. Welcome to 99 Town.

99 Town burns in the distance, and Chuck Alawode, former Federal Agent of the Order, finds himself in a precarious situation. Either help the Underground rebel collective he's been fighting against for years, or be handed over to the Order for trial and certain execution. The Underground has a simple mission for him: Plug into the disembodied head of the captured assassin android "Seven," live her memories, discover how she and her team of six others brought about the rise of the Order, and report back. Now all he has to do is stay sane while inside a psychotic android's mind.Seven's mission is anything but straightforward. She and her squad are sent to intercept and eliminate a small gathering of enemy agents. But they're lured into an electronic dead zone, cut off from the Network, the Order, and their chain of command. Without orders or guidance, they are loosed upon the remote and unsuspecting north shore of Lake Superior to decide for themselves who is friend, who is foe, who to kill, and what purpose they are to serve.Can Seven survive her own cohorts? Will Chuck survive inside of her? And if they do, what will the Underground do with the knowledge he harvests from inside of her mind?

"Bad Brains" is a psychological thriller about two local losers, Ashton and Julie, who wake up on a tropical island in a luxurious over-the-water bungalow with no memory of how they got there. The only catch: they've been separated, treated as the spouses of people they've never met, and expected to answer to names other than their own. After a murdered woman washes to shore, they quickly realize they have to play the roles they've been given if they ever want to find each other and find a way off the island. Stepping out of line means being labeled a "bad brain," and bad brains are disposed of efficiently in this tropical paradise where nothing is as it seems.

SEVEN LIVES!The assassin android Seven, driven insane by years of isolation from the Network and manipulation by her enemies, has infected every computer across North America. And now she's calculated a way to infect the minds of every neural-implant-equipped human. Her surrogates and drones stalk the streets of 99 Town and Chicago, hunting for the one man who understands her psychosis more than anyone left alive: Chuck Alawode. But Chuck and his wife Maggie have found a way to stay hidden, stay alive, and save what they can from the rubble of the apocalypse. That is until a group of teenagers on a quest to kill Seven drag him back into the fight. With the last functioning nuclear reaction on the verge of meltdown, the clock is ticking for Chuck and his new allies to mount an attack, find Seven in her most vulnerable hideout, and destroy her permanently.

Mind-bending science-fiction. Nightmare-inducing horror. Shocking psychotic crime-noir. Inside are sixteen tales by Joe Prosit, short story author extraordinaire, each crafted to tantalize and terrorize, and selected from dozens of magazines and podcasts into this definitive collection. Crack the cover and go on a journey into the furthest reaches of the human experience, from the pinnacle of progress to the blackest pit of insanity. Step into a nexus of spirit and science, excellence and atrocities, cops and criminals, clones and androids, ghosts, machines, monsters, madmen, and one loyal basset hound who's here to give us all hope in humanity.