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Fuchs is the author of the novels The Manuscript and Pandora's Sisters, both published worldwide by Macmillan in hardback, paperback and all e-book formats (and in translation); the D-Boys series of high-tech, high-concept, spec-ops military adventure novels – D-Boys, Counter-Assault, and Close Quarters Battle (coming in 2016); and is co-author, with Glynn James, of the bestselling Arisen series of special-operations military ZA novels. The second nicest thing anyone has ever said about his work was: "Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of 'when in doubt put in a firefight'." (Kirkus Reviews, more here.)

Fuchs was born in New York; schooled in Virginia (UVa); and later emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived through the dot-com boom. Subsequently he decamped for an extended period of tramping before finally rocking up in London, where he now makes his home. He does a lot of travel blogging, most recently of some very long walks around the British Isles. He's been writing and developing for the web since 1994 and shows no particularly hopeful signs of stopping.

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PANDORA'S SISTERS by Michael Stephen Fuchs

DON'T SHOOT ME IN THE ASS, AND OTHER STORIES by Michael Stephen Fuchs

COUNTER-ASSAULT by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book One - Fortress Britain, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Two - Mogadishu of the Dead, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN : Genesis, by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN Book Three - Three Parts Dead, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN Book Four - Maximum Violence, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN Book Five - EXODUS, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN Book Six - The Horizon, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Seven - Death of Empires, by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Eight - Empire of the Dead by Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN : NEMESIS by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Nine - Cataclysm by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Eleven - Deathmatch by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Twelve - Carnage by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Thirteen - The Siege by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN, Book Fourteen - Endgame by Michael Stephen Fuchs

ARISEN : Raiders, Volume 1 - The Collapse

ARISEN : Raiders, Volume 3 - Dead Men Walking

ARISEN : Raiders, Volume 5 - The Last Raid

ARISEN : Fickisms ][ – This Time, It's Personal

ARISEN : Operators, Volume I - The Fall of the Third Temple

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