Abaddon Bypass

by Rachel A. Brune

Open this book and unfold a creased and bloodstained map of the backroads to Hell.

Make a stop in the suburban neighborhood rotting under the onslaught of a month's worth of bloody rain. Visit the office where an investigator to the Damned keeps a bottle of bourbon to comfort the Fallen. Venture onto the floodlit stage where tomorrow's predators cloak their ambitions in pomp and pageantry.

The road to perdition is paved with a thousand stories just like this. Take the Abaddon Bypass, and you can meet us at the crossroads.

289 pages, Paperback

Expected publication March 19, 2027

About the author

Rachel A. Brune graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2000, and was immediately plunged into the low-stakes world of entry-level executive assistant-ship. Her unexpected journey out of that world and into the military is chronicled in her self-published book Echoes and Premonitions.

Rachel served five years as a combat journalist, including two tours in Iraq, and a brief stint as a columnist for her hometown newspaper. After her second tour, she attended graduate school at the University at Albany in NY, where she earned her MA in Political Communication, and her commission as a second lieutenant in the military police corps.

Although her day job has taken in her in many strange, often twisted directions, Rachel continues to write and publish short fiction. She released her first novel, Soft Target, in early 2013. In addition to writing for the online military interest zine "Task & Purpose," she blogs her thoughts about reading and the writing life at The Infamous Scribbler. You can also follow her on Twitter, where she goes by the handle @rachelabrune.