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The Grid Trilogy: Fall of Justice, Quest for Vengeance, Catharsis [Collection]
The Grid Trilogy [Enclosed in this Fall of Justice, Quest for Vengeance and Catharsis]
The Grid 1: Fall of Justice A fortress city. A terrifying prison. A survivor determined to beat the odds ...
Joe Parsons is playing with fire and he knows it. He has no idea what deadly secrets he and his friends will uncover when they finally hack into The City's sinister Fortrillium network.
Justice is in short supply in the harsh, decaying world in which he's been raised but Joe is desperate to uncover the truth behind his father's sudden disappearance seven years previously.
On the brink of a breakthrough, he is captured red-handed and sent directly to The Grid, a deadly, gamified colosseum from which only one person has ever escaped alive.
Hunted by his enemies and in constant danger, Joe must find a way to survive.
What he discovers along the way will change his life forever … if he can manage to escape.
Fall of Justice is a gripping work of dystopian sci-fi, set in a post-plague world hundreds of years in the future.
The Grid 2: Quest for Vengeance Two friends trapped in The Grid ... A President who was there when the plague began ... A conspiracy to keep the truth from those caught in The City ... A man who will stop at nothing to hold his wife and children once again ...
Caught in The Grid, Joe Parsons must fight to stay alive as his enemies conspire against him.
While his friends work to save him, more startling truths are revealed about President Josh Delman's past.
But Damien Hunter is on to the President, and he'll stop at nothing to save the wife and children who were stolen from him.
In the second part of The Grid Trilogy, the truth is finally revealed about the plague years and how the decimation of humanity could have been stopped.
But one man will do what it takes to keep the truth hidden.
The Grid 3: Catharsis The ticking clock which could wipe out humanity ... A deadly deal struck in secret ... The betrayal which sentenced millions to certain death ... A man who will stop at nothing to be reunited with his family ... Only one man can end it all ...
In the final part of The Grid Trilogy, Joe Parsons is forced to forge extraordinary alliances in order to survive.
Having discovered the mystery at the centre of The Grid, he's not only fighting for his own life, he must now move fast to save the entire city.
The secrets of the past come back to haunt President Delman whose actions as a young man damned the citizens to their miserable lives within the high concrete walls.
The race is on to beat Catharsis and assure the future of humanity.
Can Joe Parsons fight his way back through The Grid and save the remains of humanity?
This book is written in UK English
The Grid 1: Fall of Justice A fortress city. A terrifying prison. A survivor determined to beat the odds ...
Joe Parsons is playing with fire and he knows it. He has no idea what deadly secrets he and his friends will uncover when they finally hack into The City's sinister Fortrillium network.
Justice is in short supply in the harsh, decaying world in which he's been raised but Joe is desperate to uncover the truth behind his father's sudden disappearance seven years previously.
On the brink of a breakthrough, he is captured red-handed and sent directly to The Grid, a deadly, gamified colosseum from which only one person has ever escaped alive.
Hunted by his enemies and in constant danger, Joe must find a way to survive.
What he discovers along the way will change his life forever … if he can manage to escape.
Fall of Justice is a gripping work of dystopian sci-fi, set in a post-plague world hundreds of years in the future.
The Grid 2: Quest for Vengeance Two friends trapped in The Grid ... A President who was there when the plague began ... A conspiracy to keep the truth from those caught in The City ... A man who will stop at nothing to hold his wife and children once again ...
Caught in The Grid, Joe Parsons must fight to stay alive as his enemies conspire against him.
While his friends work to save him, more startling truths are revealed about President Josh Delman's past.
But Damien Hunter is on to the President, and he'll stop at nothing to save the wife and children who were stolen from him.
In the second part of The Grid Trilogy, the truth is finally revealed about the plague years and how the decimation of humanity could have been stopped.
But one man will do what it takes to keep the truth hidden.
The Grid 3: Catharsis The ticking clock which could wipe out humanity ... A deadly deal struck in secret ... The betrayal which sentenced millions to certain death ... A man who will stop at nothing to be reunited with his family ... Only one man can end it all ...
In the final part of The Grid Trilogy, Joe Parsons is forced to forge extraordinary alliances in order to survive.
Having discovered the mystery at the centre of The Grid, he's not only fighting for his own life, he must now move fast to save the entire city.
The secrets of the past come back to haunt President Delman whose actions as a young man damned the citizens to their miserable lives within the high concrete walls.
The race is on to beat Catharsis and assure the future of humanity.
Can Joe Parsons fight his way back through The Grid and save the remains of humanity?
This book is written in UK English
634 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 16, 2016
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About the author
Paul Teague
31 books282 followersHi, I'm Paul Teague, the author of The Secret Bunker Trilogy, The Grid Trilogy and the standalone novel, Deleted.
I'm a former broadcaster and journalist with the BBC, but I have also worked as a primary school teacher, a disc jockey, a shopkeeper, a waiter and a sales rep.
If you love stories like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent, Running Man and The Giver then you’ll enjoy my sci-fi and dystopian stories.
The Secret Bunker Trilogy was inspired by a family visit to a remarkable, real-life secret bunker at Troywood, Fife, known as ‘Scotland’s Secret Bunker’.
It paints a picture of a planet in crisis and is a fast-paced story with lots of twists and turns, all told through the voice of Dan Tracy who stumbles into an amazing and haradous adventure.
The Grid Trilogy takes place in a future world where everything has gone to ruin.
Joe Parsons must fight for survival in the gamified Grid, from which no person has ever escpaed with their life.
The standalone novel Deleted bridges the worlds of The Secret Bunker and The Grid, revealing what happens between Regeneration and Fall of Justice.
It depicts the world as we know it falling under a dark and sinister force - things will never be the same again.
I love dystopian fiction so writing these books has been a great opportunity to finally come up with my own vision of a future world where things are going haywire.
The Secret Bunker website can be found at: https://thesecretbunker.net/
The Grid website can be found at: https://thegridtrilogy.com/
I also write fast-moving and action packed psychological thrillers under the uathor name Paul J. Teague.
You can find out more about those books at: https://paulteague.net/
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July 31, 2018
It's an interesting dystopian tale of an enclosed city, a corrupt government and a resistance movement but I'm sorry to say that there were lots of things that annoyed me about this trilogy.
Firstly the writing style. I really want to shout this so it's in capitals: THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO SEPARATE CLAUSES IN SENTENCES BESIDES COMMAS! OK, shout over. Here's an example: "He couldn't see much along the tunnels, they were unlit, the bots were programmed, they didn't need to see where they were going". Every sentence was like this, drove me mad, wondered why (OMG it's catching!!) But seriously, there's until, because, since, although, and, or, then, however... the list goes on but these connecting words were very rarely used.
Also, there was an awful lot of repetition and wordiness. Things were repeated, information given several times, the same sentence re-worded and presented again, I can't think of a 4th way of saying it but I'm sure you get the picture!
Characterisation was not particularly good - everyone spoke the same and had few distinguishing features. They did have background stories though, and these were usually well reported.
There were quite a few instances towards the end where place names were muddled up (e.g. substituting 'The Grid' for 'The Climbs') which was confusing to the plot. As to the plot - it started off well but became more and more ridiculous towards the end. I can't say too much without giving spoilers but why would the bad guy(s) have done that??? Made absolutely no sense. Why would the plague be 'lying outside the city walls waiting' after 100 years if there was no-one left alive outside? Where did all the food and water come from? The most annoying thing of all was that everyone in the City did as they were told because their families were either detained, in suspended animation or under threat. Would this really work every single time for everyone? It became a bit tiresome after a while.
Moving on to the technology - obstacles in The Grid were 'rendered' monsters, people, objects, weapons, food, water - so how did that happen? A group of teenage 'gridders' (gamers) using their coding skills, with no other explanation. I guess it was like the 3D replicator in Star Trek, but why were some things pixelated and others solid enough to eat, drink, fight with or die from?
I don't want to be wholly negative - the story does have some original concepts and I did read to the end, but in truth it was a slog and I was glad to have finished.
Firstly the writing style. I really want to shout this so it's in capitals: THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO SEPARATE CLAUSES IN SENTENCES BESIDES COMMAS! OK, shout over. Here's an example: "He couldn't see much along the tunnels, they were unlit, the bots were programmed, they didn't need to see where they were going". Every sentence was like this, drove me mad, wondered why (OMG it's catching!!) But seriously, there's until, because, since, although, and, or, then, however... the list goes on but these connecting words were very rarely used.
Also, there was an awful lot of repetition and wordiness. Things were repeated, information given several times, the same sentence re-worded and presented again, I can't think of a 4th way of saying it but I'm sure you get the picture!
Characterisation was not particularly good - everyone spoke the same and had few distinguishing features. They did have background stories though, and these were usually well reported.
There were quite a few instances towards the end where place names were muddled up (e.g. substituting 'The Grid' for 'The Climbs') which was confusing to the plot. As to the plot - it started off well but became more and more ridiculous towards the end. I can't say too much without giving spoilers but why would the bad guy(s) have done that??? Made absolutely no sense. Why would the plague be 'lying outside the city walls waiting' after 100 years if there was no-one left alive outside? Where did all the food and water come from? The most annoying thing of all was that everyone in the City did as they were told because their families were either detained, in suspended animation or under threat. Would this really work every single time for everyone? It became a bit tiresome after a while.
Moving on to the technology - obstacles in The Grid were 'rendered' monsters, people, objects, weapons, food, water - so how did that happen? A group of teenage 'gridders' (gamers) using their coding skills, with no other explanation. I guess it was like the 3D replicator in Star Trek, but why were some things pixelated and others solid enough to eat, drink, fight with or die from?
I don't want to be wholly negative - the story does have some original concepts and I did read to the end, but in truth it was a slog and I was glad to have finished.
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