The SynCorp Saga

Series · 8 books · 2018-2019

By David Bruns, Chris Pourteau

Books in series

The Lazarus Protocol

2018

Mother Nature is mad as hell. Monster hurricanes … freak sandstorms … roasting wildfires. Species disappear every day. Is humanity next? Though some believe our future lies among the stars, the American President funds the Lazarus Protocol—a last-ditch attempt to reverse Earth’s climate crisis through geoengineering. But the New Earth Order—a mysterious league of reactionary activists with sleeper agents around the world—pursues another outcome: the subjugation of mankind to nature itself. A brilliant billionaire who wants to save the world. A lunar engineer called home to bury her father. A disgraced veteran haunted by yesterday's mistakes. A US Army colonel, desperate to save as many people as possible. Four lives. One planet. And one last chance to save it…

Cassandra's War

2018

The weather is weaponized. How do we fight back? Cassandra and her Neo zealots have stolen The Lazarus Protocol—the corporate tech aimed at reversing climate change—and assaulted Earth with monster hurricanes, massive dust storms, and bomb cyclones that appear out of nowhere. Meanwhile, we the people pay the price—in blood and treasure. Making new alliances and stabbing old friends in the back, Anthony Taulke hatches a new scheme to counter the Neos. Flushed out of hiding, Ming Qinlao risks everything to reclaim her family honor. And a war-weary William Graves finds hope again in a new scheme to save humanity once and for all.

Hostile Takeover

2018

The enemy of my enemy is my friend…until they’re not. Cassandra Station is space dust. Anthony Taulke and the Council tighten their grip on Earth’s resources to feed their ever-expanding empire. Inside the Council, jockeying to divide the spoils of corporate conquest has already begun—and so has the backstabbing. Meanwhile, we the people make our peace with a new normal: nothing is within our control. But new forces are on the horizon. An unlikely Neo leader emerges, rumors swirl of a rebel military alliance, and General Graves gets sucked into a new impossible mission. The Expanse meets The Godfather in Hostile Takeover, the third installment in The SynCorp Saga, the dark sci-fi series about the corporate takeover of our solar system. Experience SynCorp. Experience our future.

#3.1

The Erkennen Job

A Stacks Fischer Story

2019

Game-changing tech. A corporate coup. And Stacks Fischer. What else ya need? Tony Taulke sends the best enforcer in the solar system, Stacks Fischer, to the rundown lunar colony of Darkside. Mason Blalock, a scientist from the Erkennen Faction, has suddenly disappeared, along with some cutting-edge Company tech. To Tony it smells a lot like an attempt by Ra’uf Erkennen to topple the Taulke Faction from power and take over the Syndicate Corporation. Under orders to stop the coup at all costs, Stacks faces down marshals, gunfights Erkennen operatives, and encounters a brand new technology called Molecularly Enhanced Synthetic Hemp (MESH)—a game-changer that can alter SynCorp's balance of power. And he finds an unlikely ally to boot…

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Optional Retirement Plan

2019

When retiring isn't an option, it's kill or be killed. Stacks Fischer is a killer for hire. For more than three decades, he’s loyally served the Syndicate Corporation as its most-feared and respected enforcer around the solar system. He’s buried the company’s dirty laundry six feet deep, no matter who had to be taken out to do it. Now, Stacks has a problem—he’s losing his mind to an incurable form of dementia, and unwittingly spilling corporate secrets in public. When SynCorp decides Fischer has outlived his usefulness, they decide it's time to permanently retire him. But Stacks isn’t quite ready to go. With every one of SynCorp’s Five Factions gunning for him—and his own mind slowly rebelling—Fischer leads a pack of would-be assassins in a final, deadly chase across the solar system. The old hitman refuses to fade quietly into oblivion at the hands of his disease or the business he's dedicated his life to. He’s choosing an Optional Retirement Plan. Don't miss this pulse-pounding science fiction thriller filled with twists that will leave you on the edge of your seat. It's perfect for fans of Titanborn, The Expanse, and Minority Report. Also available on Audible, narrated by the award-winning R.C. Bray (The Martian, Galaxy's Edge).

Valhalla Station

2019

The Expanse meets The Godfather in this Space Opera/Noir Technothriller about corporate greed, rebellion, and mankind's survival among the stars. Revolution threatens a longstanding peace... Thirty years after the Syndicate Corporation saved Earth from climate-change extinction, SynCorp's Five Factions rule the solar system with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Food, entertainment, safety, security—SynCorp provides it all. In return, the Company requires complete loyalty and obedience to corporate law. The Soldiers of the Solar Revolution claim life under SynCorp is slavery cloaked in comfort. They launch their rebellion, targeting the pillars of corporate production: sabotaging refineries on Mars, shattering Callisto's orbital ring. Meanwhile, brutal pirates siphon off Company resources in the Belt, and hackers tap into citizens' implants, addicting them to fantasies shaped from their own dreams. Besieged on all sides, SynCorp's Five Factions are in retreat. The rebels aim to destroy the Company to free mankind. But does mankind really want to be freed?

Masada's Gate

2019

The Expanse meets The Godfather in the second volume of The Syn Corp Saga: Empire Earth, a series of Space Opera/Noir Technothrillers about corporate greed, rebellion, and mankind's survival among the stars. The corporate empire is crumbling from within... SynCorp's leaders are on the run. The Soldiers of the Solar Revolution are closing in. A desperate Ruben Qinlao hides the injured Tony Taulke in the Moon's rundown barrio of Darkside. Now fighting for the SSR, Kwazi Jabari becomes the face of an insurrection he soon begins to doubt. Seeking total victory, Cassandra Kisaan targets SynCorp's treasure trove of tech secrets held in the stronghold of Masada Station. Only Stacks Fischer, corporate enforcer,stands in her way. Earth is lost. Mars is under martial law. The outer colonies are the last bastions of Company rule. And what of Sol's billions of citizen-workers? Will they support Cassandra, who promises freedom? Or stand with SynCorp, the devil they know?

Serpent's Fury

2019

The Expanse meets The Godfather in the third volume of The SynCorp Saga: Empire Earth, a series of Space Opera/Noir Thrillers about corporate greed, rebellion, and mankind's survival among the stars. The final battle for SynCorp's survival comes home to where it all began: Earth. Masada Station is secured. Adriana Rabh, Regent of Callisto, has evaded capture and remains at large. But Cassandra is about to put Tony Taulke, the CEO and living symbol of SynCorp itself, on trial for his life. Ruben Qinlao leaps into action to free Tony, while Stacks Fischer escorts Bekah Franklin to the Moon to complete Project Jericho—key to defeating Cassandra. Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Benjy Anderson faces the toughest moment of his young life as his mother falls victim to Dreamscape's addictive seduction. But then he catches a certain conqueror's golden eye... SynCorp and the SSR prepare for a bloody engagement above Earth, mankind's birthplace and the seat of the largest corporate empire in history. Who will live? Who will die? What fate awaits humanity when the dust of battle clears?

Authors

David Bruns

Author · 24 books

David Bruns (www.davidbruns.com) has served as an officer on a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine and traveled the world as a high-tech corporate itinerant. Today, he writes futuristic speculative fiction, contemporary thrillers, and everything in between. He is the creator of the sci-fi/fantasy series, The Dream Guild Chronicles, the military sci-fi thriller Invincible, and co-author of The SynCorp Saga corporate sci-fi series. A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, his short fiction has appeared in more than two dozen spec fic venues, such as Compelling SciFi and Future Chronicles. In his spare time, he co-writes national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, JR Olson. Their next book, Rules of Engagement, will be released by St. Martin’s Press in June 2019.

Chris Pourteau

Author · 17 books

Chris Pourteau is the bestselling author of the sci-fi thriller novels of the SynCorp Saga (co-authored with David Bruns), the post-apocalyptic Serenity Strain novels, and the military sci-fi collection Tales of B-Company. His first novel, Shadows Burned In, earned the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction. The Lazarus Protocol, the first novel in the SynCorp Saga, placed in the Top Ten in Read Freely's 2018 50 Best Indie Book of the Year contest; it was the highest-rated Sci-Fi novel in the contest. He’s also edited and curated bestselling short story collections including the two animal-centric collections Tails of the Apocalypse and Tails of Dystopia (with Samuel Peralta), as well as Bridge Across the Stars, a collection of Sci-Fi stories from indie and traditionally published authors published by Sci-Fi Bridge, which Chris co-founded. His dayjob is editor-in-chief for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which researches cutting-edge technologies across the transportation spectrum. Chris Pourteau is the bestselling author of the sci-fi thriller novels of the SynCorp Saga (co-authored with David Bruns), the post-apocalyptic Serenity Strain novels, and the military sci-fi collection Tales of B-Company. His first novel, Shadows Burned In, earned the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction. The Lazarus Protocol, the first novel in the SynCorp Saga, placed in the Top Ten in Read Freely's 2018 50 Best Indie Book of the Year contest; it was the highest-rated Sci-Fi novel in the contest. He’s also edited and curated bestselling short story collections including the two animal-centric collections Tails of the Apocalypse and Tails of Dystopia (with Samuel Peralta), as well as Bridge Across the Stars, a collection of Sci-Fi stories from indie and traditionally published authors published by Sci-Fi Bridge, which Chris co-founded. His dayjob is editor-in-chief for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which researches cutting-edge technologies across the transportation spectrum. When he’s not writing, editing, or working the dayjob, Chris loves exercising regularly, watching shows like Star Trek and Stranger Things, and reading his favorite authors. Those include Bernard Cornwell, Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Max Collins. He lives in Texas with his wife, son, and two dogs. (He’s a HUGE dog person, by the way.) Find out more about Chris and his writing through his newsletter. Sign up and get free stuff at https://chrispourteau.com/newsletter.