Inception - Silicon Valley Techno-Thriller

An intelligent NSA weapon is hiding in cyberspace. The government wants her back, but she has plans of her own.

Mike Collins isn't part of the Silicon Valley cool crowd, but that's about to change. He's created a product that will revolutionize society and make him rich, the only downside is that it's haunted by a ghostly little girl hiding within the internet.

Melissa Taylor is an attractive socially gifted project manager with a successful boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, but something is missing, and maybe her friend Mike is part of the answer.

FBI Agent John Ripley is dedicated to protecting the government status quo. He has been tasked with retrieving an experimental weapon before it throws the nation into chaos.

Ripley intends to harness the escaped entity and use it to preserve safety and order, but Mike is determined to help it free society.

The entity though, has her own plans.

Inspiration: The story behind Inception

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Redemption - Post Apocalyptic Military

A city under siege; as armies clash, two broken people will rise to reclaim their humanity. Vegas City is among the last fortified cities in America, but it's in peril. Tyrannical leaders oppress a starving population, while outside the gates an anarchist horde prepares to attack.

Within the city, Eris Johnson is called the Witch; her police force monitors the citizenry and hangs those suspected of sedition. As a survivor of an abusive childhood, she seeks safety and will crush anyone that gets in the way of her rise to unassailable power.

Beyond the wall, Tom Deimos is known as the Reaper; an assassin specializing in bloody statement-murders working for the invading tribes. Raised in a forced labor camp, a deep rage drives him; he doesn't care who wins the war as long as he gets paid.

When an assassination goes awry, the war between the tribes and Vegas City intensifies. Under the pressure of a siege, the Reaper and the Witch question their roles and life decisions.

Inspiration: The story behind Redemption

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The Extinction SciFi series is available on Amazon.

Each book is stand-alone and can be read in or out of order. However, a greater understanding of the overall series arc will be realized if they are read in the proper sequence. This is especially true of the final book, Destination.

These novels speculate on the future of humanity. Will we commit suicide via war, intolerance, or climate destruction? Is it possible that we would build our own replacement via artificial intelligence? Or maybe evolution hasn't finished with us yet, and we are bound for something beyond imagining.

Inspiration: The story behind the Extinction Series

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The Outlaw series is available on Amazon.

These novels follow the exploits of young Alan Smith from the mid-1960s to the early-1970s. His comfortable but unconventional life is overturned when his parents are arrested for drug trafficking. He then endures Juvenile Hall, then Foster Care, and finally lives on the street with a band of other misfit kids. Eventually he becomes involved with Outlaw Bikers and the underground martial art scene that was prevalent at the time.

Both books are about the strength of will, perseverance, and the sacrifice that is necessary to survive betrayal and long odds.

Inspiration: The story behind the Outlaw Series

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Ken Barrett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a Design Engineer for over thirty years in Silicon Valley. He is a lifelong biker (motorcyclist), and an accomplished martial artist with advanced black-belt degrees in Taekwondo, Chinese Kenpo, Hapkido, and Shotokan.

These days he is retired and living in Colorado, where he spends summers riding the roads of America, and survives the snowy winters sequestered in his office writing novels.

All his novels can be purchased on Amazon.

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