Cry Pilot by Joel Dane

Cry Pilot

Following the collapse of governments (yes, all of them), vast corporations step in to take over the running of the planet, providing housing, security and technology to the districts in which they operate.

They also are responsible for fighting the biological “machines” they spawned to fight their wars.

Kaytu joins one the corporate armies as a Cry Pilot: an operator of a mech designed to engage these creatures. Kaytu intends to use this as a stepping stone into the regular corporate army. There’s just one small snag: Cry Pilots rarely survive their first encounter.

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Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood

Kim Sherwood joins the esteemed company of writers such as Anthony Horowitz and William Boyd in penning a novel based around MI6’s hard-drinking, womanising assassin.

Double or Nothing is a bit different though — James Bond isn’t actually in it.

Double or Nothing cover
Double or Nothing

OO7 is missing in action, presumed dead, which leaves the rest of the OO section to pick up the slack when a billionaire megalomaniac, in possession of a quantum supercomputer, threatens the world’s ecological stability (such as it is).

So who are the new crew?

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