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The Nomad Action Thriller Miniseries

 

Set in the near-future, the four-book Nomad miniseries featured a covert operator known only as Quinn (code-named Nomad) who was a master of weapons, high-technology and martial arts. When I was asked how the character might be depicted on covers, I sent my photo adding rather flippantly that Gold Eagle could base the covers on this if they wanted to see how a real action hero looked. I also suggested they blend the image of Nomad's face with a montage of integrated circuit chips. To my surprise that's exactly what they did. To my knowledge the Nomad technothrillers represent the first portrayal of a type of action hero that's become familiar in films like "The Matrix," in fact there's even a virtual reality computer system called Matrix in one of the books.

The ebook editions I'm making available for free download are different from the published versions, having been prepared from my original, unedited manuscripts. As all rights to the books have reverted to me I'm going to make them available in the form I originally wrote them. This is in some cases considerably different from the final form in which the miniseries was published.

Ebook versions of the first, second, third -- and now the fourth and final -- Nomad titles, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, are ready for downloading. Click the top cover to get them. As for me, I've got a kung fu lesson in ten minutes.

 

All the oh-so contemporary action-adventure movie plots drenched with paranoiac delirium where berserk computers and power-mad technocrats spin apocalyptic plots of global domination and control –- you read it here first, troops, back in 1992. All the plot devices, all the bells and whistles – even the names, like “Matrix.” When these books were published, turgid Clancy-esque technothrillers were still the order of the day. If it didn’t include a submarine (and no making one up, it had to be a Trident or an Akula) and have at least two scenes where guys spoke vernacular Russian, then it was hasta la vista time for the hapless author. Bondian time-traveling, virtual-reality computer wonks, who were also masters of the martial arts and faced off against supremely evil supercomputers and meister-technicals out to brainwash everybody and their mothers with some diabolically fiendish super-gizmo, were not on the main menu or, as editors like to say, were not on the “same page” they were on. Indeed, Zebra Books turned this series down a year before Gold Eagle picked it up –- seems there was a guy there who thought it was a little too far out for the action market.

Nomad, Book Two -- Original Title: Shock Wave -- Click to Download.Nomad, Book Three -- Original Title: Tripwire -- Click to Download.Nomad, Book Four -- Original Title: Timebreak-- Now Available -- Click to Download.

Nomad, Book One -- Original Title: The Skyfire Kills -- Click to Download.