Hi everyone! My novel The Fall, which is the fourth book in The Cain Series went live this morning. (Not quite sure about self-promotion in r/cyberpunk, I'd reached out to the mods back in July and they said it was alright, so hopefully this is okay to post.)
Link: https://a.co/d/6EnPMth
Like all books in The Cain Series, The Fall is an episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction novel. Five minutes into the future—and it's looking about as rough as we've got it now, honestly.
I'll pop the book's description and the series' description below, if you're interested in taking a look. If you know your cyberpunk canon, I hope you'll feel right at home; think The Sprawl Trilogy meets The Spencer Series and you've got it. There are a few literary allusions to cyberpunk's canon in most of the books, too; a little something extra, but not a requirement to understanding the books.
Anyway, if you do check out The Cain Series, I hope you enjoy it. If you have a Kindle and are on KU, it's free to read.
Series description:
"The Cain Series follows soldat de fortune, Cain, as he completes contracts and pulls down scores in the ever-widening grey area between corporate and criminal. Alongside Cain is Francesca, the one-time Mayor of Venice whose international influence has turned to infamy—and whose tenacity has attracted the attention of the most dangerous of the political and economic elite. Together, empowered by the disparate worlds, different classes, from which they hail—and by their unbreakable love—Cain and Francesca delve into the deepest underworlds and soar to the farthest flung colonies to challenge the powers of the next century, to wrest from them a future worth living.
Set in the near future, where the perfection of cold fusion and CasiDrive propulsion have lifted humanity into the wider solar system, the series explores the collision of boom-industry expansion, the worsening effects of climate change, and the warring-states corporate power structure created by sovereign orbitals."
Book description:
"As global food-scarcity spiraled out of control, the European Seawall Project finally began constructing the massive edifice that would reclaim lands lost to rising sea levels—and upon them build the farms that would avert famine. The workers laboring to raise the seawall were provided with the very best: fusion-powered exoskeletons, excellent pay, and a perpetually hovering artificial island, where they could enjoy their off-hours near the seawall amid every pleasure and vice money could buy. Despite the urgency of their work and the joys of life on the island, not everyone was satisfied—and someone had begun sabotaging construction drones.
Francesca Pieralisi, the former prosecutor turned seawall-project director, was then sent in to identify the saboteur and his grievances. She was not given a free hand to investigate, however, nor authorized to solve whatever problems she discovered, not since Paul Devouard, ESF Chief and her boss, had lost faith in her judgement after the near-disaster of the Bolivian affair. Barred from official resources, Francesca could only rely upon herself—and Cain. Calling upon his expertise as an elite soldat de fortune, Cain enlisted the aid of his old criminal network, to cut through the misdirection and outright lies, and to uncover the truth.
Cain and Francesca soon discovered the many forces exploiting the island, from an avaricious drone corp, to corrupt private cops, to a criminal syndicate and its burgeoning underground. It was not until they began covertly neutralizing these threats, however, that they uncovered the massive conspiracy behind it all—and the atrocity central to its scheme. To save the seawall and any hope of averting famine, they must now excise the threat with a surgical strike. But will their desperate action be enough—or too much?"