Zanatek

By Barbara-Ann McCarthy

It’s a race against time for the directors of Zanatek, led by Alexis Madrione and Miranda Tullage, to expose the CEO known as Malcolm Xenides. Xenides has detonated a number of missiles into the atmosphere that have caused the deaths of thousands on other planets, resulting in a deadly disease that is sweeping the galaxy.

Can the heroes apprehend him in time before the extinction of the species as they know it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Mar 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781504317320

Barbara-Ann McCarthy

Barbara-Ann McCarthy lives in Queensland with her family. She has previously been a short-story writer, and has had a few short stories and poems published in an anthology - Together We Write, Volume 7 in Australia. Barbara-Ann has also had a couple of stories and poems published on a Canadian website. This is her first long piece of fiction for the writing world.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-1731-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-1732-0 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date:   03/26/2019

To my

husband John and my childen, Sarah and Simon.

Enjoy the journey.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1   AND SO IT BEGINS

CHAPTER 2   ZANATEK

CHAPTER 3   TRIXIS

CHAPTER 4   TO TRIXIS

CHAPTER 5   THE GATHERING

CHAPTER 6   INTRODUCTIONS

CHAPTER 7   BACK TO ZANATEK

CHAPTER 8   CHIEF INSPECTOR ATHOS GRENADARIAN

CHAPTER 9   THE BASARIAN RESISTANCE

CHAPTER 10   HEADQUARTERS

CHAPTER 11   THE B.C.P

CHAPTER 12   WARSHAWSKI’S COMPOUND

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

When I first started writing Zanatek, the world was in a constant state of flux – the World Trade Center Terror attacks had occurred, the environment continued to deteriorate and the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS – was terrifying to behold.

I sought to address these and other distressing occurrences, and to come to terms with all the terrible events that continue to take place in this world of ours, by creating worlds and species of my own.

ONE

AND SO IT BEGINS

No one had ever seen anything like it. The skies were ablaze with streaming lights, and sparks emanated from what looked like comets. Everyone was amazed at such an impressive sight, but then amazement turned to horror as they realized that these comets were coming right towards them…

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The blazing suns beat down unmercifully on the workers as they toiled the fields, hoping that this crop would survive the cruel winter. It was the year 8053. Last year’s produce had been inedible, and many of Uuffi’s people had died because they couldn’t to eat it. ‘But surely this year’s will be better?’ Uuffi thought to himself, as he toiled along with them. ‘Surely this year the Gods will be merciful!’ But how was he going to face his people if they were not? And still the sun became stronger. His parched throat ached as did his heart for his starving people. This was a planet of extreme temperatures, and it had no mercy for those who could not stand up to its capriciousness.

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Malcolm Xenides strolled thoughtfully up and down his luxurious office, which was located on the 488th floor of Zanatek. He had worked long and hard to be where he was now, and had sacrificed many on his way, including his family, for whom he had never had time, and who no- longer regarded him as having a part in their lives. He was eighty-eight years old, but because of all the technological and scientific breakthroughs, he was only