An entertaining, page-turning, and genre-bending thriller set in a futuristic Britain.

A year after the events of Utopia Five, Lee Sands receives a surprise from brother Nemo: a holiday in the resort of Conundra - the only civilised place on Earth outside the observation of the Panopticon.

Moments after arrival, Lee witnesses the assassination of a woman and receives an invitation to the office of the Warlock of Conundra - the founder and controller of the city. Was the death real or just part of Conundra’s network of storylines?

When Nemo reveals that Panopticon citizens are disappearing and those disappearances seem to be linked to both Conundra and Lee and Nemo’s virtual worlds, the pair are plunged into the mystery of a missing man Lee knows only too well.

With the help of a sinister transhuman technocult, Lee and Nemo race to uncover the secret of the founding of Conundra and their own role in the corruption of the state.

“The only series I've read that touches on every topic I care about: Artificial Intelligence, surveillance, climate change, individual vs state, space, programming, infosec” - Marco Abis

Conundra is a gripping science fiction thriller set in a high-surveillance future. It is both a standalone action novel and the second in the Panopticon series.

Praise for the Panopticon series
“I loved this book” - James Cox, reviewer Amazon
”an unexpectedly deep and conceptual sci-fi techno thriller. Take all the moral quandaries of modern technology and give them a mix with ecological disaster and you've got yourself a good idea of the future this book is set in” - OldBird, Amazon
“Thought-provoking on the world today and future - couldn’t put it down!” - J Collins, Amazon
”The author writes some compelling characters and reveals a near future which asks what happens if some of the things we see today get turned up to 11” - Neville White, Amazon
“Full of innovative and thought-provoking ideas. Story was engaging and fast-paced” Jon, Amazon
“all too believable picture of one possible (probable?) future” - NIck B, Amazon
“a page-turning thriller, and shot through with mordant humour” - PJ Barber, Amazon
“Great fast paced story backed with a lot of detail and a huge amount of thought about how the world might develop!” - Mark Mitchell, Amazon
“Kept me hooked throughout” - Amazon Customer
“Nice to read such an original book. I couldn’t put it down” - SgravenHage, Amazon US
“A thought provoking and intelligently written sci-fi novel that I couldn’t put down” Nikki, Amazon
“A fun read, compelling world, great premise” O, Amazon
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“War was uglier than we'd imagined. The Draft was reinstated, taking our men and boys. Troops stripped the shelves as they came through. Within days, stores were empty; people began to starve. Hospitals closed due to a lack of staff and supplies. Police stopped answering calls, stopped coming to work at all. Production halted. Communications faded. Then the power went off…and it didn't come back on.

“The fall of society triggered a hard, new life where survival became our only focus. We reverted to primitive behaviors, using the war as an excuse to commit unspeakable atrocities and humanity slipped deeper into the abyss of possible extinction. Lawlessness blanketed the post-apocalyptic lands with hatred and violence that seemed to have no end. The future, cold and dark, offered little comfort. The only chance we had for peace, for safety, came from a tired voice on the radio.”

“This is Safe Haven. We offer food, shelter, and protection to all survivors. Does anyone copy? …hello? Is anyone alive out there?”

“Answering that call was a dangerous risk in a world now filled with nightmares, but it was better than having no hope at all. We left our dens and our dregs and followed Safe Haven; not everyone made it there. Some of those who did were too far gone to be trusted. The apocalypse left its mark on all of us and Safe Haven wasn’t immune to that. It was a place of safety, of light, of duty and honor. It was a refuge for all survivors. It was also a place of death and darkness, where murder and madness walked hand-in-hand.”

Life After War. A story that will live in your mind forever.

2022 PenCraft Award Winner.
2022 Reader’s Choice Runner-up.

Length: 798 Pages
Number: Book One
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Follow a group of survivors on a journey that spans more than thirty books and decades of apocalyptic horror as they search for safety in a world overrun by the dead...

When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian sets out in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. Then her car breaks down and she’s faced with a choice: give up or accept a ride from brothers, Angus and Axl. Vivian knows getting in the car with strangers is risky, but with time running out, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to reach her daughter.

The virus is spreading, and by the time the group makes it to California, most of the population has already been wiped out. When the dead start coming back, Vivian and the others realize that no electricity or running water are the least of their concerns. Now Vivian must learn how to be a mom under the most frightening circumstances, cope with Angus's aggressive mood swings, and sort out her growing attraction to his brooding younger brother, Axl.

While searching for a safe place to go, the group meets a pompous billionaire who may be the answer to all their problems. Trusting him means going into the middle of the Mojave Desert and possibly risking their lives, but with the streets overrun and nowhere else to turn, he might be their only chance for survival...

Fans of The Walking Dead will love this epic journey of survival! Readers agree it's “The best zombie apocalypse series!” and
“This series will be hard to beat!” Grab book one in the Amazon best-selling Broken World series now and join the fight for survival!
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A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world.
Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves.

Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight.
With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization.
During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a thriving community of survivors.
College student turned scientist, Rachel Benchley is among the survivors. Her experiments on the infected revealed a possible explanation for their sudden mass disappearance years earlier. Instead of dying off as a result of the virus, they were evolving.

While popular fiction has many theories about how a zombie plague could descend upon the earth, those theories were easily discounted as just stories. Now, the survivors must prepare themselves as those stories to become reality as the dead return to life and stalk humans for a nourishing enzyme that will keep them alive.
It doesn’t take Hunter and his people long to learn while it appears on the surface that this sheltered colony have done remarkably well for themselves in this post-apocalyptic world, something sinister has been brewing within their ranks that even their own people were not aware of. As if the threat of a brewing zombie outbreak were not enough, they learn that their own kind is willing to sell their souls to the devil if that’s what it takes to ensure their survival.
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Jim's First Day
On a day like any other, Jim Blackmore finds himself at ground zero of the zombie apocalypse. He is forced
to run a blood-soaked gauntlet through a city overrun by an insurmountable horde of the dead in a desperate attempt to reach his wife and two small children. As he fights to get home he discovers that the living are just as dangerous as the dead. But does Jim have the strength of will to survive the perilous journey?

Karen's First Day
Raising kids is tough. Keeping them alive as the zombie apocalypse begins is tougher. But that's exactly what stay-at-home mom Karen needs to do: fight fiercely to keep her young daughters safe as her husband Jim battles his way across the city, so they can escape the carnage together. On the worst day of her life, Karen finds that she will do anything to protect her family, and that the line between life and death has teeth.

Nightfall
Jim and Karen Blackmore have discovered that when it comes to the zombie apocalypse, there is no such thing as safety in numbers. Between their separate groups of survivors is a city of the living dead, hungry for flesh and growing in numbers by the minute. As Jim and his newly minted gang of zombie killers fight their way to his family, Karen fortifies her hideout and prepares for an emergency escape she knows is inevitable. As night falls, and their chances of seeing the dawn seem impossible, Jim and Karen's only wish is to reunite as the end of the world begins.

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