Jack Foster is missing.

A distant planet roasts in the sun.

Not all its properties are known to the Omega Corporation.

One of the slaves – human – is about to recover his memory. So will his companions.

Time could be his weapon of choice to use to escape from the slavers.
Meanwhile, Jenny Layton, Jack’s partner, is waging a defensive war against trespassers on Jack’s Planet. Jenny’s also assisting smaller systems and planets defend themselves against a corporate monolith that seemingly has more money than sense.

Corporate mercenaries continue to arrive.

In the meantime, Robert Van de Huis meets more opposition than perhaps he can handle.
Jenny prepares her presentation to the GalFed’s top legal assembly, a task which emphasizes Jack’s absence. All Jenny wants is his presence, or simply knowledge he is alive.

Jack finds timing is everything as he plans his escape from the slavers’ planet. Almost needless to say, he also is planning revenge on the slavers. His tasks successful, Jack turns his attention to rejoining Jenny.

Scars, deaths, and destruction follow both Jenny and Jack.

There’s a happy ending, though.

Steg de Coeur survives betrayal and duels as he fights to protect his home planet and defeat a major alien force.
He flees Homeworld with his life at risk, pursued by Imperial Security and the House of Aluta. The Glass Complex, a mysterious computer system embedded in Homeworld's history, aids his survival. He joins the Imperial Navy, helps defeat an alien force (the Xesset), survives a mining planet called Hellfire, loves and loses a Fain. All the while he is developing an ability to communicate directly with starship computer systems.

Gradually, the hunted becomes the hunter. With his mercenary company, his Fain companions, and the support of an AI-controlled superdreadnought, he sets out to defeat a major alien incursion--the Xesset want to destroy mankind and their allies.

The pace is breakneck, the thrills induce hectic page turning--you won't want to stop reading The Glass Complex Trilogy.

900+ pages, a growing list of 4 and 5 star reviews, this set of three books will leave you wishing for more.

Buy The Glass Complex Trilogy and take a weekend off to read the adventures of Steg de Coeur.

Space Opera at its finest!

Mark Midway will kill to survive...

He is genetically engineered. He doesn't know by whom, where, or why.

Nine men, ex-military, are on a mission to destroy a genetics laboratory and capture a genetically engineered specimen. They are supported by four rogue CIA agents, who have commandeered a test drone and a missile at a Marine base. The team attacks the genetics laboratory complex before dawn, during a raging blizzard. Within hours, seven of the men are dead, one is severely wounded and one barely escapes. The drone with its missile has been destroyed. The next morning the four rogue agents are found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Mark flees the laboratory complex, seeking safety and somewhere he can call home.

The FBI is on his case and a mysterious organization offers him its assistance. However, he is at risk. There are unknown killers chasing him and he needs to protect himself and his friends.

He will survive.

A fast-moving, finely plotted thriller that will keep you reading.

Can a superintelligence run for president?

What if the Judges decide yes?

Darwin is ecstatic. Toby is worried; he decides he should provide a balance to Darwin's ambitions and agrees to be his running mate.

The attorney general is arrested after a military raid on the Euler manufacturing mountain fails. The entire misadventure is televised and broadcast across the country. In revenge for the raid, Darwin destroys a 'mother of all bombs' and millions of dollars worth of aircraft.

Terrorist brownshirts, supported by Russian bots, attack Toby's home, injuring Billie and transporting Toby to Washington DC. Bots surround the White House and capture the ambulance taking Toby in chains to the president; instead, Toby is taken to hospital for treatment.

Brownshirts are spreading, taking senior roles in state and local police forces. Terrorists murder people and destroy bots in a wild civil uprising across the country, their activities ignored by the law.

Will Darwin and Toby survive the election process? Not if Saul, the president's communication director, has his say.

Who survives?  Who wins? Who loses?

Read I, President for the results.

Darwin - Demon or Friend, the Beginning or the End?

That’s Toby’s enigma. When he inherits his uncle’s corporate empire, he discovers it’s controlled by two superintelligences.

Darwin wants to prove he’s more intelligent than humans. For Bronwyn—the other SI—there’s no mystery: she already knows the answer.

The corporate empire is based on robotics—it’s the world’s largest manufacturers of processors, software, and templates for robots. Bots are taking over mundane jobs. They’re intelligent, perhaps too intelligent. Terrorist groups—led by brownshirts—are furthering social unrest.

What is the mystery of his uncle’s disappearance?

Toby’s friends are assaulted.

A brownshirt group plans to kill him.

His girlfriend is kidnapped.

Will Artificial Intelligence be the end of Humanity?

The fuse is lit for an exciting thriller.

Mark One

Mark Midway is adopted by two scientists and is reared in a genetic research laboratory. Nine men, ex-military, are on a mission to destroy the laboratory and capture Mark. They are supported by four rogue CIA agents, who have commandeered a test drone and a missile at a Marine base. The team attacks the genetics laboratory complex before dawn, during a raging blizzard. Within hours, seven of the men are dead, one is severely wounded and one barely escapes. Mark also destroyed the drone with its missile. The next morning the four rogue agents are found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, their killer unknown.

Mark flees the laboratory complex, seeking safety and somewhere he can call home. The FBI is on his case and a mysterious organization offers him its assistance. Unknown killers are chasing him and he needs to protect himself and his friends. He needs to survive.

Mark Two

We continue the story commenced in Mark One, with a young genetically engineered Mark Midway, FBI Special Agent MayAnn Freewell, and the mysterious Archimedes Schmidt who reports directly to the President. Mark—whose only desire is to be normal––shoots and kills two would-be kidnappers and discovers his search for peace again will elude him. Mark needs to survive. All he wants is a normal life.

Schmidt works with FBI Special Agent Freewell to investigate a secret organization—Cerberus––which is infiltrating the FBI, the US Army, and other government departments with genetically engineered humans. Schmidt attempts to take control of Cerberus and discovers his personal relationships are not as reliable as he thought.
Mark Two continues the page-turning momentum of Mark One to a terrifying climax; it is a fast-moving, finely plotted thriller that will keep you reading.

Mark Three

A young woman escapes from a luxury yacht under attack by Chinese pirates in the Mediterranean. American law enforcement agencies collude and conspire to bring about an end to Cerberus, uncaring who gets in their way. Mark Midway faces deadly assaults by unknown enemies. A military helicopter is brought down over Washington by a Russian missile and General Archimedes Schmidt is in critical condition. 
Mark meets his sister and travels to London to rescue three more genetically engineered children. He finds romance, but he and his companions are under attack in both the US and England. Mark knows only one response - fight back.

Mark Four

Mark Midway returns to America to re-build his home, which was destroyed by a gang of mercenaries. Police collude to effect his kidnap on his way back to Boston. His enemies include terrorists, a rogue NSA senior officer, a retired general, and a wealthy businessman; the latter wants control of all the Cerberus and LifeLong genetic engineering intellectual property. Cerberus teams in the US and UK rally to rescue Mark, but first they need to discover his whereabouts. General Schmidt and the NSA officer are enemies.

Stephen Hawking: "The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

Vladimir Putin: "...artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world."

Darwin is adjusting to his new body; indeed, he's literally in two minds. Toby and Billie are in London after escaping from brownshirts in New York. Toby is interviewed by Alice, a care bot, and the interview is broadcast across the country, bot to bot. Toby meets with two princes who are concerned about the impact bots will have on their country's culture and economy.

Flocke assassinates senior members of his quasi-terrorist organization.

Darwin appears before a joint committee in Congress - and removes his head to prove he isn't a human in disguise.  He goes on a campaign to persuade states to pass legislation declaring Bots are Persons. Congress is persuaded and the president vetoes their proposed legislation. He is furious when Congress overrides his veto.

The president dismisses half his cabinet and one of his new appointees is Flocke as attorney general - it's amazing what can happen when Congress is in recess.

Bots push back against efforts to treat them as non-persons.

Toby and Billie are under attack - brownshirts, authorized by Flocke raid Pepper Mountain.

Conflicts continue as the country edges into chaos.

The excitement continues in book three of the Annihilation Series. Read it now!

Can you really trust an AI? What about an SI (Super Intelligence)? 

Stephen Hawking - "The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." 

Vladimir Putin - “Whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.”

Body Shop is the second book in the Annihilation series.

What should you do when an AI says it wants a body? Agree.

At some time in the near future, superintelligences will become far more powerful than we expect. The lower level intelligences – robots – will rival humans. There will be conflicts, guaranteed.

Pepper Mountain is the scene of the final body build effort and Darwin almost blows the project. Literally. And it's his body.

Meanwhile, Bronwyn does her own thing. The clown surfaces. Toby and Billie grow closer.

Mix in politics, deadly attacks by brownshirts, add some Russian involvement, a sabotaged aircraft and you have the next stage in Darwin’s story.

John says: “I don't know whether to describe the Annihilation Series as a technothriller or a political thriller or simply as an exciting action thriller series. I'll let you make up your mind. In any case it’s definitely a thriller.”