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Shift Tense: Eshu International Book 2
SHIFT TENSE - Book Two of the Eshu International series. What's the first rule of a gunfight? Bring a bigger gun. Hired to end a vicious civil war, Eshu International's job is infiltrate the rebel SPLM army, kill the radical commander, Professor Harun Abdul Hamid, then get back to Belfast to enjoy the payday. But nothing is ever that easy. New enemies stalk the battlefield while old ones seek revenge. Tam, Jace, Poet9 and the Triplets face Somali pirates, child soldiers, rival mercenaries, killer drones... and it's just the beginning. Shift Tense. Book Two of the action-packed Eshu International series, compiling the previously published novellas 'Red Flags', 'Soldier Dreams', and 'Angels' into one volume.
461 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 2015
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About the author
Patrick Todoroff
37 books50 followersMy interest in books started when I was nine, the year my baby brother shoved a pretzel down into the back of the television set and my parents didn't get it fixed.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
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February 26, 2021
Great cyberpunk book continuing the legacy of the also great 1st novel. This time, the story mostly takes place in a cyberpunky near future Somalia. The neat thing, and the thing that drew me to this series in general, is the world is chock full of cool cyberpunk trappings but not so far removed that we can't relate to it. Once again the author has his finger the the pulse of modern cyberpunk and is able to absolutely nail the worlds reminiscent of Deus Ex, Syndicate, Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell, and Metal Gear Solid. I find a lot of cyberpunk these days is too outrageous or too philosophical but this book nailed that sweet spot of action without being mindless. The atmosphere and world building were top notch oozing that peculiar near future cyberpunk style that is so hard to emulate.Lots of great military content too with heavy focus on pure action. I was glued to the pages to the very end.
My only complaint was the ending was a bit anticlimactic.
Sadly I don't think the author has any plans of continuing to write in this great world he has established which is a real shame. There so much more to explore from the rest of the belfast metrozone, Europe and other shady Dawson-hull dealings to those 2 Russian cyborg mercenaries...i can always hope.
My only complaint was the ending was a bit anticlimactic.
Sadly I don't think the author has any plans of continuing to write in this great world he has established which is a real shame. There so much more to explore from the rest of the belfast metrozone, Europe and other shady Dawson-hull dealings to those 2 Russian cyborg mercenaries...i can always hope.
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