CHEMO: How I Learned to Kill

by J.M. Perkins

'With tooth and nail, with Gun and Blade I've come.'


So begins the 8th battle Hymn, a biofeedback device Agent Joseph recites daily. As the newest recruit of the paramilitary cult CHEMO, Joseph has pledged his life to battle 'cancers of the body of mankind.' The group hunts everything from insane telekinetics to memetic pathogens to a Lovecraftian abomination budding in the deepest, blackest trench of the Pacific Ocean.


Through every mission, Joseph will rely on his conditioning, his growing ruthlessness and the support and guidance of the man who once saved his Master Agent Burke. But when his mentor is forcibly inducted into the all-as-one hive mind, Joseph -and the organization he reluctantly serves- will have to face their most dangerous enemy yet.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

J.M. Perkins writes Science Fiction, Action Horror and whatever else will pay the bills. He spent the first 14 years of his life preparing to flee to the wilds of Canada to escape the forces of the Antichrist. Since then, he's graduated UCSD, worked at a candy factory, and performed a variety of unsanctioned sociological experiments. He's had over a dozen of his short stories sold, published, printed and adapted. In 2012 he used a successful Kickstarter Campaign to publish his first novel CHEMO: How I Learned to Kill. He cohosts the podcast ‘John vs Patrick.’ J.M. Perkins lives in San Diego with his roller derby playing photographer wife and his dog.

Reviews

[John Adams · Rating 2 out of 5]

An episodic riff on various horror movie tropes, similar to Correia's Monster Hunters but with quasi-religious analogies about cancer in place of over-the-top machismo and gun fetishism.