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The Outlaw Life of Shalimar Alpha A Novel
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Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Mac Dryfe
Published: Jun 1 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Let Nature Rise Up from Her Pesticide Stupor; let the Weeds Flourish and man Wither.
Dying Words of the Last Sequoia, 2101
Colony Collapse has finally descended on the human race and they've surrendered unconditionally. The wealthy, Magnamite and Coin Houses, have scurried underground to resume their luxurious, opulent, oversized lives in secured lairs. The destitute, the poor, the dregs have been abandoned to feed off each other like billions of terrified, cannabalistic ants. Survivors form into crews.
Shalimar is the Guardian to a crew along with her foot adoring hound, Smiley. They keep them safe. And fed. But the hunter is also a pricer who times ago escaped the brutality of the Magnamite breeding labs. Believing the key to their sanctified future has been locked away in her outlawed sequencing, seduced by the lie of their inherent superiority along with the dread of mortality, one entitled House schemes to recapture her so they can resume testing.
Coined off retrievers trigger the obliteration of her crew electrifying in Shalimar a quest for all out vengeance. She's not the only one with a lethal eye geared toward eternity. Enemies harbor, above and below, including Shalimar's questionable benefactor, the Futurian Geneticist Dr. Leilani Callander, who has a few tricks up her experimental sleeve no one sees coming, and even fewer will survive.
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