SynCorp Saga

A brutal fight for global domination.A desperate race to save humanity.One unlikely team fighting against extinction.Fans of The Expanse will enjoy this gripping, edge-of-your-seat first book in the award winning SYNCORP Saga!Where some see crisis, others see opportunity...With a planetary disaster on the horizon, Colonel William Graves has been ordered on a bold and highly classified mission. Teamed with a brilliant billionaire, a lunar engineer, and a disgraced veteran, they must race against the clock to save humanity, or risk extinction.But while some believe mankind's future lies amongst the stars, others seek to pursue a different solution: the subjugation of life itself. And as tensions mount, pitting factions against each other, global disasters continue to ravage the planet and the team soon finds itself asking one very important question: Who can they really trust?In an epic story of action, political intrigue, and betrayal, there's opportunity among the chaos… and a clock ticking down to humanity's final hour.

How do we fight the weather?The Lazarus Protocol, the corporate plan to reengineer the Earth's atmosphere, has failed. The mysterious Cassandra and her Neo zealots have weaponized the weather, Anthony Taulke is in jail, Ming Qinlao is on the run, and Colonel Graves is left to clean up the mess.Meanwhile, we the people pay the price-in blood and treasure.But the machinery of the corporation is not dead yet. As Anthony hatches a new scheme to undo the damage caused by the Lazarus Protocol, he makes new alliances and stabs old friends in the back. Flushed out of hiding, Ming Qinlao risks everything to reclaim her family name. And a war-weary William Graves is forced to choose between his duty and his conscience.Edge-of-your-seat space battles. Cloak-and-dagger corporate intrigue. Heartbreaking stories of love and betrayal. Cassandra's War is the second exciting chapter in The SynCorp Saga, the dark sci-fi series brought to you by the bestselling writing team of Bruns & Pourteau.

***Winner: 2019 Best Book Award for Science Fiction (American Book Fest)***Harmony. Security. Obedience. SynCorp saved Earth from climate catastrophe. Now its citizens work the Sol system, cradle to grave. Some call that slavery.Revolution threatens a longstanding peace...Thirty years after the Syndicate Corporation saved Earth from climate-change extinction, SynCorp's Five Factions rule the solar system with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Food, entertainment, safety, security-SynCorp provides it all. In return, the Company requires complete loyalty and obedience to corporate law.The Soldiers of the Solar Revolution claim life under SynCorp is slavery cloaked in comfort. They launch their rebellion, targeting the pillars of corporate production: sabotaging refineries on Mars, shattering Callisto's orbital ring. Meanwhile, brutal pirates siphon off Company resources in the Belt, and hackers tap into citizens' implants, addicting them to fantasies shaped from their own dreams.Besieged on all sides, SynCorp's Five Factions are in retreat. The rebels aim to destroy the Company to free mankind.But does mankind really want to be freed?

The final battle for SynCorp's survival comes home to where it all began: Earth.Masada Station is secured. Adriana Rabh, Regent of Callisto, has evaded capture. But Cassandra is about to put Tony Taulke, the CEO and living symbol of SynCorp itself, on trial for his life.Ruben Qinlao leaps into action to free Tony, while Stacks Fischer escorts Bekah Franklin to the Moon to complete Project Jericho-key to defeating Cassandra.Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Benjy Anderson faces the toughest moment of his young life as his mother falls victim to Dreamscape's addictive seduction. But then he catches a conqueror's golden eye...SynCorp and the SSR prepare for a final, bloody engagement above Earth-mankind's birthplace and the seat of the largest corporate empire in history. Who will live? Who will die? What fate awaits humanity when the dust of battle clears?