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Splinterland
Splinterland lies in the heart of the Nuclear Dead Zone. It’s a wind-scoured nightmare of broken, flattened timber covering thousands upon thousands of square kilometers. You would have to be a fool, you would have to be mad, you would have to be desperate, lost or insane to venture into the maze of uncharted trails and snow-covered deadfalls. Or… you would have to be a mutant hunter.
Leon Miller’s life is spiraling out of control. In Splinterland it will only get worse. The chase is taking its toll. But what the hell did he expect?
Leon Miller’s life is spiraling out of control. In Splinterland it will only get worse. The chase is taking its toll. But what the hell did he expect?
580 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 22, 2012
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Stephen R. Cox
11 books24 followersStephen R. Cox was born in Oklahoma. He now lives in New Mexico.
He was in the military. He has a BBA from West Texas A&M and an MA from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Both schools employ a buffalo as their mascots.
His favorite writers are Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King. He includes McCarthy and King despite the fact they occasionally sip their own bathwater – something he would never do unless he was dying of thirst, then he would sip the hell out of it. Dr. Thompson is on the list more for his outrageousness than for his writing.
MUTANT HUNTER: SPLINTERLAND is his 12th novel.
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September 13, 2013
Setting is huge in the MUTANT HUNTER series. The books are after all a riff on a chase story, in this case a high octane blast through a post-apocalyptic world.
In SPLINTERLAND, Cox again paints the world with a deft hand as the action moves from the psychotropic sludge field of the Slicks across the Atlantic Speedway, a ridge raised over the ocean that extends to the Blue States. Then on to the Nuclear Dead Zone that encompasses the Siberian Plains and Splinterland where a new sect of mutants, the Skin Bags, are amassing military power.
Clensay, an ancient bounty hunter with little time left, nabs the bomb from Number Six's mutants and makes for Wickwire Outpost on the other side of the world. His intent is to sell the nuke--world be damned--for a one night stand with an old flame.
Miller and crew give chase across the Red Sea Spillway into the Radioactive Q Zone and eventually into the NDZ. But they aren't alone in their pursuit.
The Hydrates trail in their speeder. Hydrophobia threatens to paralyze the crew, and the seeds of revolt grow, threatening to upset the command of their crazed leader No Blood.
Starling, head of the Green States, expropriates the only other speeder available, assigning Trills to command and conscripting Inscoe to pilot.
The action is non-stop, the stakes are high, and it's backstabbing all the way as each faction takes a shot at recovering the bomb.
In SPLINTERLAND, Cox again paints the world with a deft hand as the action moves from the psychotropic sludge field of the Slicks across the Atlantic Speedway, a ridge raised over the ocean that extends to the Blue States. Then on to the Nuclear Dead Zone that encompasses the Siberian Plains and Splinterland where a new sect of mutants, the Skin Bags, are amassing military power.
Clensay, an ancient bounty hunter with little time left, nabs the bomb from Number Six's mutants and makes for Wickwire Outpost on the other side of the world. His intent is to sell the nuke--world be damned--for a one night stand with an old flame.
Miller and crew give chase across the Red Sea Spillway into the Radioactive Q Zone and eventually into the NDZ. But they aren't alone in their pursuit.
The Hydrates trail in their speeder. Hydrophobia threatens to paralyze the crew, and the seeds of revolt grow, threatening to upset the command of their crazed leader No Blood.
Starling, head of the Green States, expropriates the only other speeder available, assigning Trills to command and conscripting Inscoe to pilot.
The action is non-stop, the stakes are high, and it's backstabbing all the way as each faction takes a shot at recovering the bomb.
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