Aloha – Regularly I intend to add excerpts from the Orion’s Spur series that I especially like. What better way to start than to share the prologue to the first book:
Ryder sat on the cold, rocky ground leaning against a boulder. He was holding a single shot Taser. The bleeding in his right leg was staunched by the rock shard that had ricocheted off the wall in the last round of fire and embedded in his flesh.
“Who would have thought,” Ryder muttered to himself, then fell silent as he realized the noise might pinpoint him to the alien who wanted him dead. Who would have thought eight months ago that I would be sitting in a cave a hundred light years from Earth waiting for an alien to kill me? He almost laughed, but held it in. If he wasn’t careful, he might lose consciousness too soon. If I can just hold on a few minutes longer. UFOs, aliens, garden planets within rocky shells, galactic wars, all real and all little consequence if he did not survive the next few minutes.
The clatter of loose rocks to his left drew his attention. It would be over soon. The first thing Ryder noticed as his assailant turned the corner were the boots, and for an instant his mind flashed back to a dance that seemed a hundred years ago.