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Sparks of War, Broken Power Trilogy Book 1
Sparks of War, Broken Power Trilogy Book 1
Sparks of War, Broken Power Trilogy Book 1
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Sparks of War, Broken Power Trilogy Book 1

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The biggest wars always start with just the smallest spark, and this time was no different... One man's bitterness trigger a new course of destiny, and another man's heartbreak transforms it. And each additional player in the game adds their own twist to the deepening plot.

It's an AI with a chip on her shoulder, a deep-space freighter pilot just trying to survive, and a Virtual Reality gamer chic suddenly out of her league, pitted against a drug cartel boss playing for keeps and a pirate with everything to lose. Or is it? Then throw in some slavers, traffickers, politicians, and more, just for good measure... In a battle of wills spanning the galaxy, some will rise, and some will fall...

The galaxy has run amok, the economy is failing, the government is corrupt, and conflict is all but inevitable. But will it be just another police action, a local rebellion, a full-blown civil war, or something much bigger, with their very survival at stake?

This is Book One of the Broken Power Trilogy, the first installment of what happens, and the epic war that is sparked, when a weary, deep-hell pilot runs afoul of pirates and slavers, politicians and dirty cops, and a woman who eventually steals his heart...

Continued in:
Book 2: Stones of Silence
Book 3: Ripples of Consequence

Contains mature themes and material...

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Release dateDec 3, 2015
ISBN9781311228284
Sparks of War, Broken Power Trilogy Book 1
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T. Russell Benedict

In the mountains of Southwestern Idaho in the Pacific Northwest, T. Russell Benedict lives a life that's anything but boring. Dad to 9 kids now mostly grown, he fights forest fires in the summertime, works in Alaska as an electrician in the wintertime, and fills in at a youth ranch for troubled teens in the in-between times. And after work each day, on cold nights often lit by either the northern lights or raging forest fires, he writes his stories and ideas down, challenging all who read them.

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