DarkTrench Shadow
The same future through different eyes?
The award-winning DarkTrench Shadow Series features the same cyberpunk future filled with robots and rockets found in the original DarkTrench Saga. But it has a different flavor.
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Here the hero is ThreadBare. He, too, is a slave in a global sharia-based theocracy. But while Sandfly travels the stars, Thread is stuck on Earth, doing the things debuggers like him are made to do.
Plucked from obscurity, Thread is faced with a series of excruciating situations and sadistic masters. He solves mysteries, trains other debuggers, and even operates battle robots. But his biggest challenge? Fighting off love.
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ThreadBare is property, one of the Imam's vast pool of implanted servants called "debuggers." He lives in a smelly, greasy garage on the boundary of the battlefield known as Delusion. All he wants is to complete his tasks, exceed his rivals, and stay alive. Possibly get a promotion. When an atypical chore brings him into contact with two rogue debuggers, things get complicated. Soon he's struggling with the life he's always known. New ideas plague him, brutality vexes him, and women distract him. Then there's the list of offline debuggers, those who've quietly disappeared. Through datamixes--dreamlike records of their lives--Thread tries to uncover the truth. Where did they go? What does it all mean? And what can one forgotten debugger do about it anyway?
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Debuggers have one purpose, to obey their masters. The implants in their heads ensure they can't forge their own path, can't disobey or even fall in love. But after ThreadBare's master is assassinated, his implant goes haywire, terrorizing his mind with unpredictable pain. He's in love despite the implant, with Damali--a woman who's disappeared from his life. In addition, he hears rumors of a plot to end debuggers forever. To end his single purpose. ThreadBare finds sanctuary in a school for future debuggers. He hopes a teaching position will give him time to investigate Damali's disappearance, and for his fraught brain to heal. Time is exactly what he doesn't have, though. When an act of terrorism puts the students in danger, Thread is forced to do battle. He needs a miracle, or his purpose--and his love--may be ripped from him forever.
All ThreadBare wants is to protect those he loves. Following the death of the tyrannical Imam, Thread escapes to his job as instructor in a school for future debuggers. With his love interest Damali now nearby, he seeks peace, contentment, and as normal a life as a freed techno-slave can have. Beyond the school’s walls, though, a new reality festers. Anti-tech terrorists increase their attacks, growing more emboldened with every success. In response, the new regime tightens its grip, threatening everyone in ThreadBare’s circle. With warring factions surrounding him, a new ally enters the fray, sending Thread on his most dangerous task yet. It’s a mission that will push him farther than he’s ever gone, reframe everything he believes, and expose Earth-shattering knowledge. But will it fracture all he’s trying to protect?
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