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Pulsefire: A Dying Soldier's Last Mission in a War-Torn Future
Paperback
Series: Kael Veyros Saga, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2025
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In a war-torn cybernetic future, Kael Veyros is a dying weapon. A former elite soldier augmented with experimental tech, he's spent years as a mercenary, his body failing as the military-grade enhancements meant to keep him alive slowly poison him from within. When he finally walks away, his former masters mark him for termination-but Kael has one last mission left.
Target: Rook, the warlord who turned him into a monster.
Armed with a prototype Pulsefire grenade-a device that will destroy every cybernetic system in its blast radius, including his own-Kael embarks on a suicide mission. Hunted by corporate kill teams and betrayed by his own failing body, he fights his way through neon-lit slums and irradiated ruins, confronting the ghosts of his past at every turn. Along the way, he forms uneasy alliances with rebels, scavengers, and a rogue medic who warns him: *You've got forty-eight hours before your systems eat you alive.*
But the Pulsefire holds a secret-one Rook never intended. When the grenade detonates, Kael doesn't die. Instead, he awakens transformed, his consciousness fused with the very technology that once enslaved him. Now, as his humanity dissolves into quantum energy, he must decide: Will he become the weapon he was always meant to be, or something greater?
A visceral blend of cyberpunk grit and transcendent sci-fi, Pulsefire is a story of vengeance, redemption, and the cost of immortality. It's John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell, a lightning-fast odyssey through a future where the line between man and machine isn't just blurred-it's on fire.
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