The Last Mission of the Living
(The Last Bastion)
by Rhiannon
Frater
Publication Date: August 28th, 2014
Genres: Adult, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies
Synopsis:
Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction…
Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi
Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered
horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had
hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified
soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge
that infested their valley. Yet the city still crumbles around
them, along with any chance of survival.
Lindsey’s growing friendship with Torran MacDonald, an officer with the Science
Warfare division, is her only solace as thedecline of the city continues.
When food riots fill the streets, martial law is enacted, and the upper
echelons of government battle for control of the city,
Lindsey is conscripted by her superiors to embark on a dangerous mission into the dead
world beyond The Bastion. To add even more complications,
Torran and the SWD join the squad.
Soon, Lindsey realizes that her mission is more than what it
seems, and there are secrets that could both destroy TheBastion and
take her life.
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Excerpt from The Last Mission of the Living
“Sir!” Goodwin
breathed.
“I see the readout.” It
was impossible to conceive that the others were gone. Opening the comm to the
soldiers in the building, Torran said briskly, “Everyone report. Respond now!”
Strange guttural noises
were his only answer.
Torran hit his wristlet,
again switching the comm to contact Rosario’s group. “Smyth, report.”
As the other half of
the squad was added to his helmet visual, he sucked in a deep breath. They were
also reported as Killed In Action. Stunned, he swallowed the hard lump forming
in his throat. What was going on?
“Sir?” Jonas queried
his voice unsteady.
“Watch that door! Smyth,
if you can hear me respond now!”
Through the static came
the sound of someone choking.
The line hissed and
buzzed for a long second, then a woman’s voice that was not Rosario’s said, “Don’t
worry. She’ll come for you.”
A wave of horror washed
over Torran and plunged him into the blackest depths of despair. They were all
dead. Just like before outside the wall when the expanding perimeter fence had
failed and the Inferi Scourge had swarmed the soldiers.
“Sir?”
The sound of Goodwin’s
voice tugged Torran’s attention back to the present. Staring at the empty
doorway shimmering in an ominous pale gray in the night vision filter, Torran
gathered his thoughts, and then switched the comm again. “Base, I have lost all
communication with my squad and they’re being reported as KIA. We are under
attack from the abnormal Inferi Scourge. We need immediate backup to this
location.”
The popping and static
echoing through his helmet sent a surge of adrenaline through his system. For
several seconds, he feared there wasn’t going to be a response, but then a
voice said, “Master Seeker, you’re to hold position until we can send a
tiltrotor with reinforcements. All units are all presently engaged.”
“We can’t hold this
position,” Torran answered curtly. If the rest of the squad was dead, then he
had to save Goodwin and Jonas as well as himself. He’d been a sole survivor of
a squad before and the burden of that label still weighed on his soul.
“You have your orders
to secure and hold that area,” came the reply.
“We’re dealing with a
pocket of the Abscrags--”
“You have your--”
There were footsteps in
the hallway.
About the Author
Rhiannon Frater is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including the As the World Dies zombie trilogy (Tor), as well as independent works such as The Last Bastion of the Living (declared the #1 Zombie Release of 2012 by Explorations Fantasy Blog and the #1 Zombie Novel of the Decade by B&N Book Blog), and other horror novels. In 2014, her newest horror novel, The Mesmerized, will be released by Permuted Press. Dead Spots will be published in 2015 by Tor. She was born and raised a Texan and presently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and furry children (a.k.a pets). She loves scary movies, sci-fi and horror shows, playing video games, cooking, dyeing her hair weird colors, and shopping for Betsey Johnson purses and shoes.
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ReplyDeleteThe cover looks awesome and I really enjoyed the excerpt. It's those kind of spoilers that always lure me in ^^
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