ARCs available for new cyberpunk novel, The River Blade

[Collective Ink Books]

UPDATE: Only PDFs and EPUBs are available.

Hello!

We have PDF and EPUB ARCs available for our highly anticipated cyberpunk novel, The River Blade.

Synopsis
The River twists and snakes and encompasses the world, a rain-wet, neon-lit place of eternal night, a synthesis of Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick, dreamed up in the mind of Ridley Scott.
For Cass it’s a place to escape the dull grind of her lonely life, a place where she can run the twisted laneways and live out her violent fantasies. For Detective Poe, it’s a beat to walk, a dark, dangerous environment for him to hunt down his clues and get closer to whoever or whatever is haunting its streets. For Adlai, sitting drunk in a bar on the border between the River and the real world, it’s a place to watch his creation transform itself from a theatre of heroism into, hopefully, something more vital.
These three stories intertwine throughout the novel, shading, affecting and leading each other in new directions. The one thread that pulls them together is the nightmare vision walking the streets, a rogue musical virus that infects users and feeds off their fears, growing stronger with each kill. It has been designed to take down the corporate powers of the Grid, a powerful governing entity on the banks of the River, but this weapon has gone rogue, harvesting any user it comes across, and threatening to collapse the entire structure of the River itself.
As each character faces the threat, they become altered. Cass is forced to accept her nature as a cold-blooded killer, a honed weapon designed to fight the virus. Poe acknowledges the nature of his constant intellectual companion and in turn the unreality of himself and the world around him. Adlai swallows his guilt, acknowledging the need leave to the world of fantasy behind.
As the virus focuses in on its ultimate target, all are brought into the bar and face Adlai. His dreams and fantasies meet and move off into their own reality, kites with their strings cut, leaving him to move on in his life, away from reminiscence and guilt, on to real connections with others who are also looking for something real to hold onto in a world swept up in technology and fantasy.

Please email me at ben.blundell@collectiveinkbooks.com to request an ARC.

Best wishes,
Ben

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