Taine McKenna Adventures by Lee Murray Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Into
the Mist
Taine
McKenna Adventures Book 1
by
Lee Murray
Genre:
SciFi Action, Thriller
When
NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna and his squad are tasked with escorting a
bunch of civilian contractors into Te Urewera National Park, it seems
a strange job for the army.
Militant
Tūhoe separatists are active in the area, and with its cloying mist
and steep ravines, the forest is a treacherous place in winter.
Yet
nothing has prepared Taine for the true danger that awaits them.
Death incarnate.
They
backtrack toward civilisation, stalked by a prehistoric creature
intent on picking them off one by one. With their weapons
ineffective, the babysitting job has become a race for
survival.
Desperate
to bring his charges out alive, Taine draws on ancient tribal wisdom.
Will it be enough to stop the nightmare? And when the mist clears,
will anyone be left?
Into
the Sounds
Taine
McKenna Adventures Book 2
On
leave, and out of his head with boredom, NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna
joins biologist Jules Asher, on a Conservation Department deer
culling expedition to New Zealand’s southernmost national park,
where soaring peaks give way to valleys gouged from clay and rock,
and icy rivers bleed into watery canyons too deep to fathom. Despite
covering an area the size of the Serengeti, only eighteen people live
in the isolated region, so it’s a surprise when the hunters stumble
on the nation’s Tūrehu tribe, becoming some of only a handful to
ever encounter the elusive ghost people. But a band of mercenaries
saw them first, and, hell-bent on exploiting the tribes’ survivors,
they’re prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way. As a
soldier, McKenna is duty-bound to protect all New Zealanders, but
after centuries of persecution will the Tūrehu allow him to help
them? Besides, there is something else lurking in the sounds, and it
has its own agenda. When the waters clear, will anyone be allowed to
leave?
“Murray
pretty much nails small unit tactics.” ‒ Justin Coates, author of
The Apocalypse Drive
“A
fantastic blend of military fiction, a very real primordial monster,
and powerful mythology.” ‒ Paul Mannering, author of Hard Corps,
Hell’s Teeth, and Eat.
Into
the Ashes
Taine
McKenna Adventures Book 3
No
longer content to rumble in anger, the great mountain warriors of New
Zealand’s central plateau, the Kāhui Tupua, are preparing again
for battle. At least, that’s how the Māori elders tell it. The
nation’s leaders scoff at the danger. That is; until the ground
opens and all hell breaks loose. The armed forces are hastily
deployed; NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna and his section tasked with
evacuating civilians and tourists from Tongariro National Park. It is
too little, too late. With earthquakes coming thick and fast and the
mountains spewing rock and ash, McKenna and his men are cut off.
Their only hope of rescuing the stranded civilians is to find another
route out, but a busload of prison evacuees has other ideas. And,
deep beneath the earth’s crust, other forces are stirring.
“INTO
THE ASHES is a kick-ass thriller with twists you will never see
coming! Lee Murray serves up a nail-biter of a weird-science action
adventure. Brava!” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling
author of DEEP SILENCE and V-WARS
A
deadly wash of lava and rocks, as wide as the Waikato River, surged
around the house, taking the line of least resistance. The side of
the house exploded in flames. Taine had no time to take it in because
the front wheels of the Unimog were lifting in the swell, the air
blackening with the smoke and stench of immolating tyres. “Hine,
go!” Read croaked. Grabbing Brooker by his shirt, he dragged him
back onto the Unimog. She
jumped clear, landing near Taine as the lava surged around the
Unimog. Carried on the broiling wave of lava, it circled in a bizarre
ballet, Brooker and Read still inside. Floating. Dammit.
Taine had to get them off now. That truck was a toaster oven bobbing
on a sea of red heat. “Read!” “I’m sending Brooker to you.
Line-out style. Be ready!” Taine
had to hand it to him: as ideas went, it was gutsy. With the bed of
the Unimog still floating above the flow, there was a chance it could
work. “Hine,
we’re going to have to catch Brooker.” Hurry
it up, Read. Standing
as close as they dared, Taine and Hine braced themselves … The
Unimog circled. Come
on! The
vehicle came around. Read bent his knees, grabbing Brooker by the
overalls below his hips. When the vehicle neared the lava’s leading
edge, Read thrust him upwards, Brooker jumping as best he could. Brooker
yelped. Dammit.
He was going to fall short. Taine stepped forward, his boot searing
at the edge of the liquid rock. He leaned out and yanked Brooker to
him, while, crouched low, Hine caught the boy’s trailing leg before
it hit the lava. Taine
snatched his own foot back. “Fuck
me! That was close,” Brooker panted, his chest heaving. One
down, one to go. What
if Read leapt and missed? Taine glanced at Hine. He could spare her
that at least. “Help Brooker to the twin cab,” Taine shouted.
“I’ll get Read on the next pass.” Suddenly,
Lefty was there, pushing Hine out of the way. “It’s okay. I’ll
do it. You get clear.” The soldier hefted Brooker over his
shoulder, carrying him down the driveway, where Miller was backing up
the truck, slowing just enough to allow the men to pile on. The
Unimog was like a raft on the rapids, the viscous current pulling it
towards the middle of the lava-river. “Read!”
Taine yelled. “Is
Brooker safe?” Read called over the roar of the lava. Taine
glanced back. Lefty and Pringle were lifting Brooker onto the truck
while, on the flatbed, Parata dragged him in. “He’s
safe. Read—” Taine jumped back as a spray of lava spurted off the
surface. “I
know, I know. I’m coming. Just waiting until the…” he trailed
off. “Matt,”
Hine whispered.
Lee Murray is a Bram Stoker-nominated writer and editor horror fiction, and multi-award-winning writer of dark speculative fiction (Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows). Her works include the Taine McKenna adventure series, and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (co-written with Dan Rabarts). She is the editor of ten dark fiction anthologies, the latest being Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenalin Press). Lee lives with her family in New Zealand where she conjures up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock.
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