JONAS JOHNSON sERIES

My latest book and series. This is science fiction/noir. This story was inspired by old time radio shows such as Pat Novak For Hire, Jeff Regan Investigator, Box 13, Suspense, Dragnet, Whitehall 1212, Chesterton Radio, cyber punk stories, Michael Connolly’s Harry Bosch series, M. W. Craven’s Washington Poe and G. M. Malliet’s Max Tudor series. A tall order, I know.

Humanity is expanding past the boundaries of the solar system. New sources of water, minerals, and commodities are enriching many, yet the price paid for this progress are the united, oppressive juggernauts of government and corporate power of the Mother Planet. Society is stratified into two types of people: The Enhanced - and everyone else. Most people are trapped in a pattern determined for them from birth. There are few freeborns and these are viewed with deep suspicion, if their unassigned status is known. Jonas is one of these free-borns. An unassigned a legal status makes for a perilous life on the edge. Powerful forces in society have found ingenious ways to keep people pacified and distracted with mindless entertainment while mining human bodies as aggressively as they mine the solar system. Behind the glittering spires of vast cities and the facade of technological progress, society is decaying. and in this decay, Jonas, a lost and disaffected young man, slowly begins to find his purpose. Which puts him in direct conflict with the dark forces trying to shape humanity.

Titles of the series (these are tentative and may change as the series develops):

Message At The Deep

The Red Book Of Ralston

A Great Game

House Of Air

Blood And Consequences

Super Unknown

The Goodship Karkosa

Where The Stars Are Strange

On The Hour of Our Meeting

The Raven And The Phoenix

Ebook presently in Kindle Unlimited. Will be available for wide release in February. Audiobook available at some retailers below.