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From The Author of the Murphy's Lore seriesEXILE AND ENTRANCE |
Patrick Thomas
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YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN... BUT YOU CAN KICK HIM OFF THE PLANET
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Betrayals consumed Rick Wagner; first by his family, then by his government; each sacrificing him up for their own ends. He and nine hundred others, like the thousands before them.
Onto a distant planet ironically called Liberty, Rick is sold for entertainment fodder...warrior for the Tore Games, a Xile. On a sandy arena, Rick fought with friend and foe alike to the roar of alien throats...or their equivalent. It was a bizarre, frightening existence. But he was not alone. Ricks courage and valor gain him allies in this new life. Among them a squad of fellow Xiles, a six-limbed silver wolf, a moving mountain... and Susie. An eight-year-old human child that became Rick's very reason for living. A human child whose appearance on the planet threatened the livelihood of the Muridae, rat like slave traders that held all in their mercenary grip. She had to disappear.... The final betrayal came, not from the limbs of others, but from one of his own. Death would have been preferred to what was planned for Susie; time was running out, and Rick was running out of hope...
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