Book 2 in Chris Ward's original and excellent Tube Riders trilogy has just launched.
Earlier this year, I gave five stars to Ward's stand-alone novel, Head of Words. It's a deep and dark psychological story that shows Ward's talent and professionalism as a writer.
Now, I'm telling everyone I can to pay attention to this original writer's steampunk-inspired Tube Riders series, which achieves the same standard of excellence.
What are Tube Riders?
Set in Britain in 2075, the Tube Riders are a gang of young people who defy a brutal dictatorship by playing a dangerous game of riding on the outside of London's Underground trains.
Book 2, Exile:
Having narrowly escaped the Governor's savage Huntsmen, Marta Banks and the other surviving Tube Riders are on the run in northern France. Trapped inside a government-assigned quarantine zone, they search for a way out of a bleak countryside littered with abandoned worker robots and haunted by sinister monks, while at the same time a far deadlier threat than any they have faced before is searching for a way in ...
From the towering spires of Mont St Michel through the dark horrors of the Paris Catacombs to the treacherous peaks of the French Alps, The Tube Riders: Exile is an epic continuation of Chris Ward's Tube Riders series.
Chris
Ward is from the UK but currently lives and works in Japan. In addition to the Tube Riders Trilogy, his work includes a number of short stories (available on Amazon) and the stand alone novel The Man
Who Built the World as well as Head of Words.
What inspired the story?
"For
the whole of my novel-writing life, I always wanted to write in different
genres, try different styles and push myself as a writer and an artist. I had a
rule that no two novels could be the same. In around 2009 I decided I wanted to
write a big sci-fi dystopia. While my novels had always ranged from horror to
comedy, my short stories had usually been in the speculative fiction vein,
because they were easy to write and relatively easy to sell to magazines.
Looking for ideas, I came across an old story I wrote in 2002 about a group of
kids who hung off the sides of trains for fun getting into trouble with a rival
gang. And hour and two sheets of A3 paper later, the Huntsmen, Dreggo, the
Governor and the dark world of Mega Britain was born.
"I
once promised myself to never write a sequel, but by the time I had written all
165,000 words of the first draft of the Tube Riders, I realised that it was
really just the first part of one long story. Now, with Revenge, that story has
reached its end.
"It
felt strange to leave the Tube Riders behind, but while the main story is done
there is a likelihood that there will be prequels or possible novels set within
the three years between Exile and Revenge, mostly focusing on side or minor
characters."
Exile launched on December 16, and book 3, Revenge, will appear in January. Watch Written Words for a cover preview!
Where to get it:
Visit Chris Ward's Amazon author page to see all his published work.
Visit Chris Ward's blog, A Million Miles from Anywhere.
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