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Savak Tull, smuggler, trader, and all-around shrewd businessman has a lead on a 'Yellow Gypsy'; one of the top secret laboratories hidden though out the Exclusion Zone. If true, this is a once-in-a-lifetime shot at making some real money. But life before the Zone taught Savak if something is too good to be true, it usually is. So the real question with that kind of money on the line is can he trust this lead? Or is his past going to catch up with him? Gopnik Blues is a story for fans of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Metro 2033 post-apocalyptic worlds, or the tabletop war game, Zona Alfa. *** ...

Yuri Bonyev enters the Zone once again, this time guiding Russian mobsters on a search for prime real estate inside the most heavily quarantined region on the planet. But the Zone operates by different rules than the streets of Moscow or Vladivostok, so will these newcomers respect its ways, or will they be weighed in its scales and found wanting?

Zone guide Yuri Bonyev escorts three scientists to an uncharted sector in the Zone chasing rumors of an old military bunker. Not everyone is who they appear to be, and Yuri learns perhaps some secrets are better left buried.

In the near future, an aging homicide detective hunts a serial killer in the crowded streets of New Kowloon, his only clues the victims' last moments he illegally hacked from their neural chips. A technoir cyberpunk crime thriller from the author of Beneath the Broken Moon, The Barrow Lover, A Prayer to St. Strelok, Strange Treasure, Sozo, and more.

In the 22nd century, the ethnic Uyghur in Western China still dream of independence. Decades of discrimination, surveillance, and repressive policies by the Chinese government have only strengthened their resolve. Frustrated with the separatists, Beijing enacts a final solution: the forcible deportation of all dissidents to Mèng Tiān, a desolate mining colony in the Kepler system, five hundred light years from Earth. When the relocation program backfires and a full-scale insurgency erupts, the elite operators of Zombie Six arrive as part of the U.N.E. Peacekeeper force. Ordered to kill or...

NATO units caught in a massive Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltics find themselves on a historic battlefield. Exhausted, outgunned, and outnumbered, they must decide if some history is worth repeating.

In the not-too-distant future, a combat-scarred veteran returns to a broken nation and finds himself in ugly company.

Global jihad is on the rise and the veteran spec-ops team Echo One races to stop a terror attack in the American heartland. Another near-future military action short by the author of the Eshu International novels, the Clar1ty Wars series, The Barrow Lover, "A Prayer to St. Strelok", and other stories.

Treasure hunting in an ancient forest, two friends dig up a gold locket, but when a beautiful girl's ghost appears and townsfolk start dying, their dream of easy money turns into a nightmare that draws them to its dark heart.