Bøger af David C. Brown

Rex Knight, a native West Virginian and Afghan War vet, is mysteriously teleported from a peaceful surveying job to the semi-lawless frontier of an alternate Appalachia world of Civil War era technology, slavery, drugs, cotton, and competing colonial empires. The world straddling Prussian Empire, whose emperor claims to have descended from God, is vying with the sinister Ichneumon Empire for control of the North American continent. Endangered by the clashing empires are the indigenous Wapitis. Rex is appalled by the oppression and murder inflicted on the Wapitis by James Donnelly, a warlord employed by the Ichneumons. Azure blood and social structure mark the Ichneumons as not quite human. The Wapitis, locked in a deadly struggle to avoid slavery and extinction, appeal to Rex, who looks like a Prussian, to help them obtain rifles and ammunition. Aware the Prussians hang people caught selling firearms to the Wapitis, Rex . . .

Rex Knight is a survivor and intends to make a life for himself in the quasi-civilized Erden where he was mysteriously teleported. Opportunities and hazards exist for a modern man in a nineteenth century world of Civil War era technology, slavery, drugs, cotton, and competing colonial empires. With Rex's help, the indigenous Wapitis have prevailed in their confrontation with warlord James Donnelly. Unfortunately, that success has earned him the odium of the not-quite-human Ichneumon emperor who has much gold and a predilection for hiring bounty hunters to collect his enemies' heads. Rex figured an alien emperor couldn't be any worse than the Afghanistan Taliban and focused on making a living in an alien world. He believed the new river steamboats and hauling cargos offered an opportunity to build a business, if their boilers would stop exploding. A young female slave claims to have solutions to that problem and Rex's Ichneumon predicament. She's willing to barter. He's not sure either of them can afford her price for helping him.

Nitro Wild continues the chronicle of a modern man endeavoring to survive on an alternate earth of 19th century technology, slavery, and competing colonial empires. Rex Knight, an Afghan War veteran, has been mysteriously teleported from a peaceful surveying project in West Virginia to the semi-lawless Appalachia on Erden where the Prussian and Ichneumon Empires are vying for dominance. Endangered by the clashing empires are Rex's friends, the indigenous Wapiti and an escaped slave, Amy Caroom, who is, among other things, his partner in a river steamboat and a machine shop. The non-human Ichneumon army is poised to ravage the Wapiti homeland when the winter ends. The Prussians are willing to help the Wapiti, but lack the means to stop the Ichneumon armored riverboats. Complicating matters for the Prussian army is the threat of rebellion by the slave owners in their territories over the emperor's edict outlawing slavery. Rumors of a coup d'état in Berlin are rampant. The Mongol Empire on Prussia's eastern border is furious over the stopping of the slave trade and threaten war. The Ichneumons sense opportunity to deal their rival a knockout blow. Their army will help the rebellious plantation owners seize control of the Prussian territories along with the Wapiti homeland. Rex will need all his wits, shrewdness, audacity, and even duplicity to survive and protect his partner and friends.

Caroom's Raid is a rousing tale of a modern man blending duplicity, audacity, and decency to survive in a brutal eighteenth century alternate-history version of an alien Appalachia frontier and lawless Gulf coast. Rex's steamboat, the Mischief, has a contract to deliver the Wapiti's cargo of prized winter-sloe nuts to Port Delta on the Gulf coast, a voyage of 1000 kilometers down the pirate infested Erie River. East from the port, along the Gulf coast is Orleans where Rex's partner, Amy Caroom, an escaped slave, wants to go. She intends to collect a debt owed her by Herr Purnell, her former owner and father. Rex thinks Amy's idea reckless since her father has posted a large reward for her capture, dead or alive. Then the Ichneumons arrest Rex while he's collecting the gold payment for the cargo. He escapes, drugged by his partner, and wakes to find himself, the gold, and his boat in Orleans. Then there's the matter of the exploding war between the Ichneumons and Prussians empires closing the Erie River and the Ichneumon navy confiscating the gold and his Mischief.