by Max Bolt
“Fitch. There has been some nasty business in the city. Are you safe?”
“I’m fine. But I’m not going to be home for dinner.”
“I’ll leave yours in the fridge.”
Silence.
“Fitch?”
“Yeah?”
“Hurry home.”
Fitch hangs up. Looking out the shattered windows he can see the lights of the surrounding buildings suffocated by smoke. And further West he can see the mountains where the bushfires rage beneath an ominous red glow.
Epilogue
An ILD – Improvised Leaving Device. Mason’s email detonates inside the email boxes of every employee of Southern Cross Building Materials, ten hours after his departure from the Penrith branch. Thankfully it is after office hours so the IT department can activate a high priority forced recall. But those employees that read it will spruik the legend.
It is short and sweet. The good ones always are.
I fought to protect this country. But I cannot protect you from yourselves.
The End
Also by Max Bolt
The Hunting
Dumped in the Australian outback with no food and no way home and a pack of deranged hunters intent on tracking you down – what do you do?
The Hunting – the thrilling debut novel by Australian writer Max Bolt
When twenty-one-year-old Brisbane drug dealer Stu Matcham crosses paths with Tatani, the king of the Brisbane underworld, his life implodes. Tatani imprisons Stu’s girlfriend and dumps Stu and his mates in the outback bush. Tatani gives Stu two weeks to escape and save the girl he loves.
But Tatani won’t be letting them out, instead he has assembled a team of professional hunters intent on tracking them down.
Stu must fight for his freedom. It is rocks and spears against knives and guns; deranged evil versus human resolve, as the Australian bush explodes in a fire storm of violence, and Tatani, the hunter, suddenly finds himself the hunted.
And somehow, amid the mayhem, a million dollars worth of Tatani’s diamonds have gone missing, and a faceless enemy is challenging Tatani’s underworld empire, watching every move he makes, just waiting to take him down.
Set in the bush beyond the reach of the suburban moral code, The Hunting explores the human instinct for survival and the madness when faced with losing all you have.
Read The Hunting now at Amazon.com; Apple iBooks; Smashwords.com.
Run Baby Run
Brandon Summers, a quick talking 18-year-old, dreams of winning the Rio Olympics 100 metres in a time faster than any man in history. But a prejudiced public, his criminal past, and Charles Dent, the king of world sprinting, stand in his way.
To all observers Brandon is just another wayward kid on Newcastle’s streets with one foot inside a prison cell. However, when Brandon strikes up an unlikely friendship with George, a sixty-year-old alcoholic former boxer, George sets about coaching him all the way to Olympic stardom. But talent can only carry you so far, as Brandon must fight to cut through social prejudice and escape the shadow of a dangerous stand-over man intent on revenge, as he chases his dream and the love of the local police chief’s daughter. While George, battling his own demons, wants only to live long enough to see his young friend win gold in the biggest sporting event on the planet.
Run Baby Run explores the power of staying strong in the face of adversity, as Brandon discovers he has the ability to inspire an entire nation to believe. The Olympic 100 metres - it is not just sport, it is a love story in 9 and a bit seconds.
Read Run Baby Run now at Amazon.com; Apple iBooks; Smashwords.com
About Max Bolt
Max Bolt lives in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of the novels The Hunting, Run Baby Run, and Coming Home. To find out more about Max Bolt and his novels, visit: thehuntingmaxbolt.blogspot.com.
