New Book Series: ARISEN, on Dispatch from the Razor's Edge

Last year, my friend and colleague Glynn James, writer of dark fantasy fiction (and Amazon bestselling author), approached me with the following proposition:

"Whilst I was walking home from the pub, the idea for a novel popped into my head – one that would need both my horror/zombie-writing and your high-octane combat/thriller-writing to make it work well, with lots of space for the philosophical thoughts that you add to your novels and plenty of space for quiet, chilling moments that I like in mine. We are both working on sequels to our books, so it couldn't happen right now, but if the idea interests you I think I have an idea that might work. And even an idea of how we could do it…"

My immediate response to this was: "No." Then, after giving it approximately two seconds' thought, my response became: "Yes!" We started tossing story and character ideas around shortly after, while we were both working on our own books. Then, this past spring, we both got to a place where we could work seriously on it – and started (co-)writing like maniacs. After 12 furious weeks we found we had finished not one but two books! And I don't think either of us could be any happier with the results. Without further adieu…

A world fallen – under a plague of seven billion walking dead
A tiny island nation – the last refuge of the living
One team – of the world�s most elite special operators
The dead, these heroes, humanity�s last hope, all have…

cover of ARISEN, BOOK ONE - FORTRESS BRITAIN

When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living - with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion animated corpses.

And when civilization fell, one international team of supremely elite special operators was being assembled at the SAS barracks at Hereford. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are humanity's last best hope for survival. Searching through the detritus of fallen Europe, scavenging pharmaceutical labs for clues to a vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink, now they are tasked with one last desperate operation.

Meanwhile, the Channel Tunnel to France, long ago sealed by demolition, has been breached by a new super-fast mutation of the zombie virus. And one corporal in the UK Security Services, thrown together with a lone Captain in the Royal Corps of Engineers, are all that stand between the settler families of Folkestone and certain undeath. At the same time, an entire tooled-up SEAL team disappears into the dark labyrinth on the other side of the Channel. And as the world's last floating carrier strike group steams into Portsmouth to transport Alpha team to their most lethal mission yet, time is running out for Fortress Britain…

Available now, exclusively from: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk.

Alpha team will return in September 2012 in
ARISEN, BOOK TWO – MOGADISHU OF THE DEAD

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Dispatch from the Razor's Edge is owned and operated by novelist, technologist, vegan, exercise junkie, classical liberal, rambler, and Londoner Michael Stephen Fuchs.

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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