Defiance (Beyond the Wall Book 2)

Defiance (Beyond the Wall Book 2)

Silver Medal Winner, 2015 Independent Publisher Awards (Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook)

"Defiance is an excellent book. It's classic science fiction, written with skill and panache. Good as it is, I think that Lucas Bale is only just getting into his stride, and that the best of this series is still to come."

Alex Roddie, Pinnacle Editorial

"I greatly enjoyed Lucas Bale's The Heretic when it released earlier this year, finding it to be the beginning of an ambitious science-fiction series with a heck of a lot of promise. Book Two in his Beyond The Wall series, Defiance, struck me as even better in nearly every way."

Michael Patrick Hicks, author of the DRMR Series

The darkness in the human heart is infinite.

Earth is gone. Centuries have passed since life ended on the blue planet. Humanity's survivors are now dispersed among distant colonies, thousands of light years from the barren, frozen rock that was once their home.

At a time when power means everything, the ultimate power, the imperium, rests with the Consulate Magistratus. In return for its protection, citizens must concede their rights absolutely. The Magistratus controls interstellar travel, access to technology, even procreation. Every citizen is implanted with a device to monitor their location, health and emotions. Freedom, religion and self-determination are anachronisms.

The murder of a man in the lowest caste is seen as inconsequential, but Weaver, one of the few Caesteri lawmen who still believes in justice, refuses to ignore it. Fighting his own indoctrination, and the voice inside his mind that forces him to ignore his conscience, he follows the trail of evidence all the while struggling to hang on to the thin thread of his humanity.

The killer he hunts is violent and unstable, and haunted by her own callous ghosts. A woman who sells her body to fuel her drug addiction. She possesses an almost supernatural ability navigate the wormholes which connect humanity's distant colonies - an ability the Magistratus fears and must eradicate. Weaver will follow her to a planet the Magistratus has abandoned, where the only law is that of criminals. And then to the furthest reaches of space, where the truth that awaits them leads to the corrupt heart of the Republic - a truth the Magistratus will do anything to conceal.

The war to control humanity's future is about to begin.

Defiance is the award-winning second book in a longer tale spanning four volumes. The bestselling Beyond the Wall series is gripping, epic space opera, written as hard science-fiction. It is the story of humanity's future and the discovery of the truth of its past.
Country USA
Manufacturer Dark Matter Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-11-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Dark Matter Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-11-17
Format	Kindle eBook

Defiance (Beyond the Wall Book 2)

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