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After agreeing to hunt down an ancient relic on an alien world, Mike Wesley may have gotten more than he bargained for: the mark of the hero which gives him the ability to respawn after death, ten times. Now, between the deadly booby traps and the cute, cuddly murderous cat creatures that inhabit the world of Kelenia, he'll need each one of his new lives if he wants to make it back to Atlanta in one piece. |
Excerpt
Sweating, Louis Scott ran as fast as his legs would carry him, which wasn’t all that fast, objectively. His pale cheeks were flushed with exertion and the heat of the afternoon. He had to make the construction site. If he could just make it there, he had a chance.
Lou, who the kids at school had called “Piggy” thanks to the low gut that always pushed down on the waistband of his pants, ventured a look over his left shoulder. Shit, he thought, still there. And they were.
All three men Lou had been running from were still right behind him. The only thing keeping them from gaining on him was the general impracticality of their pants. Two of them ran with their hands firmly on their sagging waistbands. The third, a short, stocky guy with a gold front tooth, was taking wide steps as if trying to straddle a low horse.
Lou pounded down the street, although which street it was he wasn’t entirely sure. It was probably one of the ones named after the peach trees Lou had never seen despite living in Georgia his entire life. Of course, he had been living in Atlanta for that whole time, so it was entirely possible, he supposed, that outside of the perimeter was wall-to-wall orchards. But he doubted that.
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