Blood Runners by George S. Mahaffey Jr

Author:George S. Mahaffey Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: to become suspects in crimes committed by those of means. "Runners" bear the burden of individual crimes and are forced to run timed gauntlets, rescue their kidnapped friends, the development of "Absolution, a new system of law and order developed in New Chicago. Efficient, BLOOD RUNNERS is set in a post-apocalyptic Middle America that's arisen from the chaos and bloodshed of the old century. The story takes place initially in New Chicago, escape, In the vein of WOOL and THE HUNGER GAMES, gladiator, chase, a city encircled by a massive wall that separates it from the "Q Zone, and executioner. The story centers on a young "Runner" who teams up with a female assassin hired to hunt him down after they uncover a conspiracy concerning the brutal head of the all-powerful Guild that controls the underworld in New Chicago. There are three books in the series. Book 1 details the rise of New Chicago's dictator, game of death, teeenage hero, hunting, tracked by government assassins who function as judge, " revolves around young men and women who are trained in the city as human "sin-eaters" and paid bounties, " a forbidden area inhabited by mutated quasi-humans called "Thresher." In an effort to eradicate crime, rebellion, sin eater, dictator, teenager, post-apocalypse, action heroine, and how the groups join forces when some of their members are kidnapped and taken back into New Chicago by the city's dictator. Book 3 centers on the how the young Runner and assassin are forced to lead a team back into New Chicago, totalatarianism, jury, and confront the city's dictator and prevent him from utilizing an ancient weapon that could destroy the world once again., ruler, this new system, revenge, human hunting human, and how the heroes are forced to join up and work to escape from New Chicago after they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the power structure. Book 2 explores their escape from New Chicago and efforts to hide in the Quarantine Zone, zombie, female warrior, post-apocalyptic, beth varni, blood money, a grittier HUNGER GAMES meets THE REMAINING." – Stephen L’Heureux – producer, "BLOOD RUNNERS is lean and muscular, most dangerous game, called "Absolution, SIN CITY 2., " the background of our heroes (the young Runner and the female assassin hired to kill him), yet incredibly brutal, dystopia, violence, sin, fight to the death, warlord, eventual rescue by a band of scavengers from a settlement beyond the Great Lakes
Publisher: Argo-Navis
Published: 2014-03-09T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Blood roared in Marisol’s ears as she ran through the tall grass that blanketed her line of sight in every direction. The sun was faint overhead, little more than ambient light as Marisol streaked past, barefoot, unarmed, following a path on the ground, moving across little cubes of rock with the practiced grace of a professional dancer. She paused and heard the sound, the unearthly grunts of pursuers. They were coming, the same things that haunted her on occasion in the light and always in her dreams. A flap of movement at the periphery of her vision. The tail end of something clutching the shadows, staying low to the ground. Her pulse quickened, and then there they were — dark cutouts at first, freaks of imagination, mottled forms with rotting, talcum-colored flesh. Nearly indefinable, they stumbled up into the light, clawing their way across mounds of fresh earth. Spider holes and duck-backs. Their movements more humanoid than animal, eyes milky and sheathed in a layer of loose skin.

She screamed and turned and ran through the grass that rippled all around her. They were closing fast as Marisol skirted forward, bursting out the other end of the grass maze, and then she was tumbling, falling down an embankment until she came to a rest in a windfall of tombstone-white tree branches. Her vision was spotted white and swarmed with stars as she rolled over and pushed herself up on a stout branch that was revealed to be a human bone, a femur. She shrieked, recognizing that she was hip-deep in a never-ending boneyard. A pale netherworld of bleached bones and flesh-starved corpses that lay like twisted sculptures. Marisol squinted up as her pursuers paraded down the embankment, following her like animated targets from some horribly violent, first-person, mow-em-down video game. The sound of the things echoed behind her, beside her, all around her. They were everywhere now, an immense force that careened down toward her as she grabbed a bone to use as a club. The horrid clamor rang in her ears as she brought the bone back over her head, wailing, before she roused into consciousness.

She leapt from this liminal state, nearly fell from her bed in the barracks, and shook off the nightmare and looked through a slit in a faraway wall. The sun was just beginning to peek through. It was nearly time for Absolution to begin. She reached over and plucked up her tactical vest and swung a hand out for her rifle. As the alarm sounded, she lurched from her bed and grabbed her gun and the rest of her gear and made for a nearby exit.

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