In the all-too-near future, Britain has been turned into a number of gated cities run by the all-powerful ClearSkies Corporation. Whilst those inside the cities lead a gifted existence where a responsible civilians most important duty is to spend, the people left in the crumbling Old-Towns desperately cling to life.
It is in one of these dilapidated areas that Taylor, a security officer with a troubled past, patrols the streets with his trigger-happy team. Their task is to make sure the hungry people that mass on its edges do not infiltrate Hope City. Taylors job is soon to be made significantly easier by the fifty-foot-high concrete wall being built around the citys perimeter. Once the wall is complete, the inhabitants of Hope City will be permanently free of their starving neighbours.
Taylors plan to quit his job is threatened when he is given information about The Shepherd, a revolutionary who may just have the power to bring down the rulers of Hope City. Not since anarchist punk rocker Billy Nothing led the ill-fated Uprisings a decade before, have ClearSkies powers been challenged in this way. When events take a deadly turn, Taylor is forced into a brutal fight with the city he has sworn to defend.
This Machine Kills, is fun, thrilling and entertaining as well as being poignant and prophetic. Liszka is a great talent who churns out stories which are right up my street. - Danny Hogan author of Killer Tease
About the Author
Steve is a fulltime fire-fighter based in Brighton, East Sussex. He also runs his own fitness company teaching old-school, outdoor training to his hardy team of Spartans. Steve has competed in amateur boxing and dabbled in various martial arts over the years. He enjoys climbing, mountain biking (badly) and playing rugby for his local team. After reading an article about novelists, Steve was encouraged to have a go himself, when it stated that most writers are assholes. Steve is married and has a two-year-old son, Buddy. This Machine Kills is his first novel.