The Biohunter

A Fracture Story

De: Ingrid Moon

Narrado por: Scott Allen

When a monster hunter's last mission is to capture a wasteland girl, his only chance of survival is to turn the hunt around.

Hunt the monsters of the wasteland.
Bring them back alive.
Retire.

Ninety years after the devastating global "Fracture," the biosphere has collapsed. The few remaining cities, once bastions of human survival, have become fortresses of power ruled by ruthless corporations. Axel Mercer, a former soldier, explores the hostile plains to recover organisms for scientific research. But the corporations who run civilization want more.

As his last mission, Mercer is sent to recover a specimen that could bring eternal life to the corporate elites. He learns this organism is not a monster, but a teen girl—a wasteland fighter hardened by a life of survival. Her spirit and fierce determination challenge everything Mercer has believed about his job, his future, and his questionable past.

In a world where power is worth more than life itself, Mercer must decide which side of the fight he belongs on—and what kind of future is worth fighting for.

An action-packed dystopian novel with a simple premise, crazy twists, cruel desires, a pinch of humor, and all the blood and violence of an edge-of-your-seat action movie.

The BookFest 2025 - Second Place Award
Fiction - Sci-Fi - Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

Content Warning: Violence to adults, children, animals; guns & warfare; language; elevators.

©2024 Ingrid Moon (P)2025 Ingrid Moon

Terrific Characters and a fun listen!

Ninety years after a global collapse called the Fracture, a burned-out monster hunter takes one last job for the corporations that run what’s left of civilization and discovers the specimen he’s been sent to retrieve is a teenage girl. That reversal is the engine of the whole book.

Axel Mercer is the kind of protagonist who has spent years not asking questions, and the girl’s flat refusal to be a thing rather than a person forces every one of those questions back on him at once, unsettling what he believes about the job, his future, and a past he’d rather not examine. Neither of them softens into sentiment, which is exactly why the relationship lands.

Moon’s storytelling is lean and propulsive, building a strange world on real science, filling it with morally gray characters, and pairing tense action with a dry sense of humor that arrives right when the tension needs a valve.

A little Altered Carbon a pinch of The Windup Girl with a bit of The Last of Us. You’ll find a lot to love here, with some Mad Max chase energy and a streak of unsettling biology running underneath.

This is a fun story and Moon’s writing never rests on tropes or stereotypes. Definitely worth the listen.