Book One
He came to work. They came to fight.
After their parents died, Jake Sullivan took a job as an equipment operator to keep a roof over his younger brother and sister. When the Cobras pulled his seventeen-year-old brother into a heist, Jake took his place rather than watch the kid get marked by the life he’d left behind two years earlier. When the night of the heist came, Jake realized the plan was a bust—and walked away, leaving the gang one man short. Fred Gonzales, leader of the Cobras and an operator who ran the same machines Jake did, wasn’t about to let that go. By the time their rage exploded into a machine fight, the site was wrecked, a building was down, and both men were headed to prison.
Five years later, Jake is out and running heavy equipment on a dam site outside Fort St. John. Then Fred is hired onto the same crew. He hasn’t come alone. He hasn’t come to work. And he doesn’t care what he wrecks—the job, the site, or Jake’s family—as long as Jake is the one who loses it all.
Nobody on that site can stop him; Jake is the only one who ever has, and in a place full of machines, another fight is only a matter of time.
Book One of The Great Machine Wars.
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Alex Magno writes thrillers, conspiracy stories, science fiction, and family drama. He spent years running heavy equipment in Alberta, British Columbia, and Massachusetts, long before he wrote a word about any of it. He lives in North Vancouver with his wife, and writes with the music turned up.
The Great Machine Wars is his first novel and the first book of a series.
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