Bøger af Austin McKinley

Rake Bravo is a fair to middling intergalactic guerilla performance artist struggling for relevance. When a chance encounter on Earth sets him on a path of pursuing social justice in the rust belt of the galaxy, he finds himself in a maelstrom of self discovery, the breadth and depth of which surpasses even his wild imagination. If he doesn't come to terms with every facet of self awareness he encounters, untold billions may pay the price, and the dream of fame and respect will become a nightmare of infamy and ignominy!

From the moment an explosion sends Bethany, Caesar and Paulo's small spaceship spinning away from their convoy, the trio must find a way to survive despite the requirements of the religion that drove them to the stars in search of freedom. Stranded and enslaved on an alien planet, they must question everything they were raised to beleive in order to fulfill their destiny to find the promised land, and lead their people home!

Grant Tennison and his team of former terrorists and ex-military specialists have saved the unwitting world twice, with nothing to show for it. Now they launch a mission to recover the brain backup programs they surrendered when they banded together from a secure data facility on the artificial island of New Mauritius, but their action cascades into a tragic flash-point for disaster that forces their former handlers to hunt them down, even though with Grant out of the way, there will be nothing to stop Governor Cade Talgat and the forces of his corporation-state conspiracy as they tighten their grip on global power. But even if Grant's team survives the dragnet, how will they preserve their legacy as anything more than the authors of terror, destruction and failure-their dream of extrajudicial benevolence reduced to a zero sum game? .

How do penguins pass the time at the south pole? Plenty of costume parties, snowball fights, and close encounters with killer whales. Austin McKinley explored that territory before it was cool in this collection of online comic strips from 2001-2002.

Tristan, the anti-social new kid from Massachusetts, thinks Christmas in Arizona is a joke, especially working customer service at the mall. But to win the heart of Amy Killdeer, the Mall manager's hot, season-obsessed daughter, he's not above bringing out every trick in the New England playbook and pretending to be the Christmas-iest kid around. There's only one defensive line to contend with: his coworker Zeke - the high school football star who actually does like Christmas and wants Amy, too! DASH AWAY MALL - an all ages Christmas comedy that's equal parts naughty and nice.

The National Union, a global federal government, is beset by treachery within and rebellion without. A coalition of member states blames China for the brutal murders of the Kazakh governing family.Grant Tennison, a former commander of the National Union's armed forces leads a select team of operatives - soldiers, rebels and mercenaries hired by Kazakhstan's vengeful new ruler to find those truly responsible, to expose the conspiracy, and preserve the illusion of global unity.

After a disastrous mission in Xinjiang, Cinese Intelligence officer Rhee Jianjun's career is the opposite of on track when he meets a young neurohacker named Xiaodan who changes his perspective. She needs his help to steal a top secret government prototype that threatens the security of the National Union. But they'll have to beat Cypro-Corp, CIEDA, and Grant Tennison's team to it. Dozens of lives intersect in this intricate thriller, brought together by the earth-shaking implications of a single invention: a society more connected than ever before, but still so far from united. In an environment controlled by quantum computers, the world really is what you make it! Another epic, mind-bending tale of intrigue and adventure from the author of "Hell Bank Notes" and "Nick Gauntlet: Private Knight."

A reluctant gladiator in a pan-dimensional smackdown, Quique possesses a hidden strength: a concentration of dark energy called Quintessence...a force to fight against black holes, quantum shifts, and nuclear hearts-a force that may rip him apart unless he can master his inner demons as well as the titanic fighters in the ring. The champion of this tournament wins the universe, the loser is nothing but stardust!

Nick's a down-on-his-luck bow-for-hire, stripped of his lands and title by King Richard. Now he scours the crappy dukedom of Calomel for anyone who flips him a coin. But blackguards beware - he can't be bought. His honor may be tarnished, but his other knightly virtues are intact. Cross him, he'll spare no bolt, steel, or shoe leather to set things right, even if he has to turn his seedy medieval society of doddering dukes, corrupt churchmen and libidinous ladies upside down to do it!

London Bridge is burning on both ends, crammed with matchstick houses and over 3,000 people who live and work there, none of whom can swim. Trapped in the whirling smoke is Nick Gauntlet, a disgraced ex-knight on a mission, and that's just the latest of his problems. Disgraced and landless, Nick gets by taking bow-for-hire jobs from the highest bidder. That's why he has Mathilde FitzWalter in tow, the daughter of a rich and powerful English lord. Her father hired Nick to bring her home, because Mathilde's been sleeping with King John. She thinks she loves the guy.Catch is, Mathilde has a secret leads all the way to Westminster. Now Nick has a dilemma: take her back to her father and earn his pay, or gamble on helping Mathilde deliver her message to the king in the hopes of getting his land and title back. A king Nick-and the rest of the country-despises. The ethical mire's thick as tar, but none of it'll matter if Nick and Mathilde can't cross the Thames alive!