RENEGADES - Thomas Locke - One Free Book

Bio: Thomas Locke is a pseudonym for Davis Bunn, an award-winning novelist with worldwide sales of seven million copies in twenty-two languages. Davis divides his time between Oxford and Florida and holds a lifelong passion for speculative stories. He is the author of Recruits, as well as Emissary and Merchant of Alyss in the Legends of the Realm series and Fault Lines, Trial Run, and Flash Point in the Fault Lines series. Learn more at www.tlocke.com .

About the book:

Twins Sean and Dillon are using their transit abilities for good—but not everyone sees it that way. Arrested and imprisoned by a clandestine group within the highest reaches of the Human Assembly, Sean and Dillon are forced to choose sides between those who wish to serve and those who seek to rule.

At the same time within a distant outpost, a young soldier is coming into his own. Logan has known since childhood that he possesses a special gift—he can detect others who have the ability to transit, or ghost-walk. Though ghost-walking has been outlawed for centuries, Logan is secretly drawing together a crew for a risky quest.

The fates of these three young men will lead them, along with the entire Assembly, to the brink of destruction in this inventive tale of adventure, honor, and the things worth fighting for. 

Welcome back, Thomas. Can you please tell us about Renegades?

Their prize awaits in the parallel world.

For ten years and counting, Sean and Dillon Kirrell have survived the mayhem of a self-destructive homelife through living a dream. Their bedroom is wallpapered with hand-drawn images of a long, circular train station. Glass trains glide through translucent tunnels, connecting this hub to a world they cannot name, but are certain exists. The travelers move along conveyor belts that curve over walls and ceilings, held in place by a system they have named modulated gravity. This is no dream. This is no fabricated scenario. For a decade and a week and a day, they have known the place is out there. Waiting to welcome them to their real home.

But unseen forces aim to thwart their plans, and then redirect their newly-honed powers to destroy a planetary government. By absorbing the lessons and going beyond, Sean and Dillon forge an ambition to be of service to the inter-planetary system. Suddenly it's no longer about being the best. It's about the survival of their ever-expanding community.

Pass or fail. Are you in?

Who is the primary audience for your book?

Readers of syfy adventure

We understand Renegades is second in a new series. Have you received any reviews of this series that you would like to share with us?

 “Locke's newest novel has everything that readers love. Both intelligent and fast-paced, Recruits draws readers in quickly and holds their attention throughout. . .This is definitely a must-read!”

            RT (4 ½ stars, Top Pick)

“A must-read for science fiction fans! There is something here for everyone.”

            Compass Book Ratings

“Wow! This story is a remarkable feat, combining adroit storytelling with a delicious mixture of the now and the fantastic. Bunn's writing shows a wonderfully fluid grace. The story brings to mind the poignant beauty of Arthur C Clark's best novels, as well as such modern works as Avatar.”

            Phyllis Tickle, Senior Editor, Publishers Weekly

What are you working on next?

The film version of Emissary, another Locke title.

How exciting! How can readers connect with you?

www.TLocke.com

Thank you, Thomas, for sharing this new book with us. Just the descriptions of the book grabbed me. I know they will grab my readers, too.

Readers, here are links to the book.

Renegades #2 - Christianbook.com
Renegades (Recruits) - Amazon paperback
Renegades (Recruits) - Kindle

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FAULT LINES - Thomas Locke - One Free Book

Welcome, Thomas. Why did you become an author?

I came to faith at age twenty-eight and began writing two weeks later. Up to that point, my whole focus had been upon business – I ran the European office of a US consulting group. There were a huge number of transitions that followed this, but from that first moment, literally the first hour I wrote my first story, I knew this was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

If you weren’t a novelist, what would be your dream job?

Seven years ago, I began writing screenplays. It was enormously challenging, like learning a new musical instrument or a different field of medicine. But it has remained a great joy. I am now working on my fifth screenplay under contract and loving it. Just loving it.

If you could have lived at another time in history, what would it be and why?

This has never really interested me as a concept. What I find fascinating, however, is the idea of alternate universes. Different scenarios playing out in a time and setting that is the here and now, only skewed ninety degrees. That is what I am doing with this series of novels.

What place in the United States have you not visited that you would like to?

Alaska. Hike the wilderness. In the summer, though. Definitely just in the summer.

How about a foreign country you hope to visit?

I have been invited to lecture on creative writing in Singapore. Just across a bridge is Malaysia, a land of clouds and mystery. Can’t wait.

What lesson has the Lord taught you recently?

Letting go.

Working in the film world means accepting that mine is just one voice among many, and certainly not the most important or the loudest. When the story moves from page to the combined action of many, I become just one of the chorus.

Tough.

Tell us about the featured book.

That night, Professor Gabriella Speciale does something she has never done before. An Italian psychologist, she has spent five years studying the brainwave patterns of practitioners of deep meditation. She now intends to apply the latest electromagnetic techniques to stimulate similar brainwaves in ordinary subjects; those who have never practiced mental control. But her initial candidate reports something utterly unexpected. Then another. After the third research experiment, Gabriella decides to break with the demands of scientific objectivity. She must slip into the lab after-hours, and take her own trial run.

Gabriella seems to float on the edge of human consciousness. She senses a gradual separation from her physical form, frightening but also captivating. At one level she identifies the phenomenon as an out-of-body experience. These have been chronicled, and controversial, for centuries. Only now there is a difference. With a little tweaking, Gabriella finds a means to both control and direct the out-of-body experience. She seems to be omniscient – going anywhere, seeing everything. Has she, in effect, defied the laws of gravity, locality and time? As the lab comes back into focus, Gabriella is flush with exhilaration – and anxiety. She does not fully understand the ramifications – but something this big needs to be protected.

Please give us the first page of the book.

The Satellite Beach community center was not the sort of place to require an armed agent guarding the coffee machine. It was located in a former auto supply warehouse. The four bay doors had been replaced by walls of glass. The view was over a parking lot, a lawn shared with the neighboring church, and the inland waterway. That Monday evening the setting sun turned the bay into a burnished copper shield.

Charlie Hazard stood in what had become his normal station, midway between the coffeemaker and the jukebox. His job was to make sure the local surfers didn’t totally freak out the old-timers. There were nights when he would have rather faced incoming fire.

The center was situated three blocks from the home he had inherited from his father. Charlie had been dropping by a couple of nights each week for nineteen months and he still didn’t know why. He went off on a job, got it done, came home, and a night or so later he was back. The place suited him. It was safe. Charlie liked safe. And sane. A lot of his life away from this place wasn’t either. Lately he found himself looking forward to coming back. He was comfortable with little triumphs these days—another day staying clean, another night without sweats and fever dreams.

Julio, a Hispanic kid in his late teens, hit the button on the music machine. Immediately the place was invaded by rap. Julio was a local surfer, tall and handsome despite his baggy jeans and prison tats. Charlie had every reason to dislike him and his attitude. But something about Julio hit him at gut level. What was more, Charlie’s best friend here was the youth counselor, a retired Orlando detective named Irma Steeg. Irma had a definite soft spot for the kid. So Charlie kept his voice mild as he waved Julio over and said, “Think maybe you could hold off for another hour?”

Julio gave him attitude. “What’s your problem, man?”

“See the old people over there by the windows? Forty-five minutes, they’ll leave for their nightly meds. Then you can play the track that sounds like a bad day in Baghdad.”

Irma settled a hand on Julio’s arm, halting his comeback. She asked, “How about something from Ol’ Blue Eyes?”

Charlie walked over to the machine and ditched the rap. To the groans of everybody under twenty, Frank Sinatra and his horn section asked Charlie to fly him to the moon.

As Charlie returned to the coffee bar, Irma gave Julio her number one smile. “Everybody likes Sinatra, right?”

Charlie knew Julio wanted to tell Irma exactly where she could put Sinatra and his entire big band. But Julio had enough street sense to notice the steel behind Irma’s smile.

He told the departing kid, “One hour, tops. Then the place is yours.”

“Whatever, man. Make yourself some oatmeal, why don’t you. Easier to chew, you don’t got no teeth.”

Charlie said to Irma, “Remind me why you put up with that lip.”

“Julio has nothing and nobody. I always had a thing for strays.” Irma offered him the same soft-hard smile. “As you should know.”

He skipped his retort because an unfamiliar woman chose that moment to walk through the door. When her smile lit up the room, even the kids gave this new arrival thirty seconds of silence.

The strange thing was, the beautiful woman was not actually smiling at anyone or anything in particular. She seemed genuinely ecstatic to simply be here. In a former auto supply warehouse.

Maybe she had a thing for Sinatra.

How can readers find you on the Internet?

www.DavisBunnBooks.com

www.TLocke.com

Readers, here are links to the book. By using one when you order, you help support this blog.

Fault Lines - Christianbook.com
Fault Lines - Amazon.com
Fault Lines - Kindle

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