The Flame: Book 1 (Tales of the Shehkrii)

by Ian Martin

Overview

Are you afraid of the future?
Be very afraid, because it's already here!!!

Journalist, Mark Todd, has pursued the gunrunner, Paul Gareth for nearly a decade … now, Todd is about to get his man.

Or is he?

What Todd has stumbled over is something far more sinister. Unfortunately, he's not alone. Gareth is the target of the C.I.A. and a secret Australian government department.

In their quest to capture an international criminal and eco-terrorist they will uncover the Shehkrii … inheritors of a hidden human heritage that is the last hope for the survival of the species … the spark of humanity in us all that should have been a raging flame, but has instead become a dying flicker!

And they will know Terra.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011492693
Publisher:	Ian Martin
Publication date:	09/04/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	506 KB

About the Author

I grew up in Sydney, Australia in a leafy fringe suburb called Gray's Point and now live with my family on an acre of rainforest in the Glasshouse Mountains of Queensland, commuting to Brisbane for work.

A longtime fan of sci-fi and fantasy I'm fascinated by history and anthropology and how they collide with technology.

I wrote plays and short stories in lower high school. Despite little encouragement I still managed to become a significant essayist by graduation. Mr Wilson (Level 1 English teacher) gave me 9/10 for one effort, a mark he had only handed out once before in a very long career. I learnt more from that crotchety old bugger than I realized at the time and am in his debt.

But I didn't return to fiction until my late thirties when having devoured Raymond E. Feist's 'Magician', I was devastated to be unable to find any sequels. They were there but I was looking in the wrong places. So I set out to write something for myself and quickly found that I wasn't comfortable with the sword and sorcery environment for some unknown reason – perhaps it seemed like it had all been done. Anyway, I found myself dabbling in the contemporary area, trying to find characters who brought together the sensibilities of Now with some of the crazy ideas I loved.

I hope you enjoy the results.

iDM