The First Twenty Steps [Kindle Edition]

Michael D. Smith (Author)

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Product Description

An ex-convict finds himself mixed up in a motorcycle gang’s plan to heist a hyperspatial supercomputer.

Just released from six years in prison and unsure how to meet basic needs, Harry finds a kindred spirit in Roberta, in thrall to a depraved motorcycle gang. The two decide to infiltrate Harry into the gang so that he can eventually free her from it. But Alexander, the passive-aggressive leader of the Cerberean Knights, leads them into a major crime this evening as he seeks to pay back favors from the corrupt city council of One-West. As the motorcycle attack on the Dataflux computer building turns terrifying and surreal, Harry and Roberta find themselves outgunned by another biker gang belonging to the mysterious billionaire Richard Mullein, who intervenes to protect the top secret navigational equipment for his Cathedral Spaceship.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 172 KB
• Publisher: Sortmind Publishing (January 22, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0054GQBHG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,145 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Michael D. Smith was raised in the Northeast, then the Chicago area, finally moving to Texas to attend Rice University, where he developed as a writer and visual artist. In addition to exhibiting and selling paintings and drawings, Smith has completed fourteen novels. His writing in both literary and science fiction genres uses humor to investigate psychological and spiritual themes.

Smith's web site, www.sortmind.com, is named for his 2009 novel Sortmind, which chronicles the Telepathic Database, urban architectural wars, and two sets of aliens with opposing ideas about how to deal with the human race. In his blog, blog.sortmind.com, Smith explores art and writing processes. Both his web sites contain further examples of his writing and visual art.

Smith's science fiction novel The Martian Marauders is scheduled to be published by Double Dragon eBooks in January 2012, with the second and third books in the series, Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, and Nonprofit Ladies, to follow.