One More Run
The Roadhouse Chronicles Book 1
by Matthew S Cox
In August of 2021, they tried to disprove the adage that violence doesn’t solve anything—by killing everyone.
No people, no problems.
Fifty years later, humanity has emerged from the ashes. As if nuclear war didn’t do enough, a cruel virus followed on its heels, reducing many survivors to mindless killers.
Drivers are the only link between scattered towns. Anyone with the skill to maintain a vehicle (and the balls to hit the road) can seek fortune and glory running jobs for the Roadhouse.
Kevin longs to trade in his steering wheel for a Roadhouse of his own, no longer the idiot dodging bullets for a handful of coins. He’s one run away from retiring when a strange woman begs him for a ride to Harrisburg. Desperation has a way of getting a man to do stupid things, like running a package so valuable half the Wildlands will come after him.
All his life, Kevin cared mostly about himself—and his car—yet this woman makes him wonder if there’s more to life than selling food, booze, and weapons to reckless fools.
Her past comes calling, leaving Kevin at a fork in the road: fulfill his dream, or let it go for something he never thought he’d want: love.
REVIEW
5 out of 5
This was a long, wild ride, and I enjoyed every minute of it – so if you enjoy post-apocalyptic sci-fi, buckle in and enjoy. Kevin is an interesting character from the start, and we’re dropped right into the action when we meet him. Cox does an excellent job of introducing you to the world, without overwhelming you. Kevin is a great character, with a lot more depth than you’d expect from a runner. Tris was Kevin’s personal curveball, and it was fun watching them interact, and how Kevin’s attitude and way of thinking changed after getting close to her. There’s a very Mad Max vibe to the opening, but it really sets up everything that follows. The action scenes will get your heart-pumping, and everything is so well described, it feels more like watching a movie than reading a book. The tension is kept up throughout, pulling you from one page to another. Although this has a lot of tropes you often see in dystopian fiction, when mixed together with Cox’s unique flair, it becomes so you can never truly know what’s going to happen next. In short, you need to read this!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in a little town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author Tony Healey.
Hobbies and Interests:
Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it.
He is also fond of cats.
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