Tube Riders, The (53 page)
Authors: Chris Ward
Tags: #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Science Fiction, #Adventure, #Dystopian, #Genetic Engineering, #Teen & Young Adult
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Tube Riders
Fallen from the Train
Going Underground
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The Tube Riders
Beneath the dark streets of London they played a dangerous game with trains. Now it is their only chance for survival...
Britain in 2075 is a dangerous place. A man known only as the Governor rules the country with an iron hand, but within the towering perimeter walls of London Greater Urban Area anarchy spreads unchecked through the streets.
In the abandoned London Underground station of St. Cannerwells, a group of misfits calling themselves the Tube Riders seek to forget the chaos by playing a dangerous game with trains. Marta is their leader, a girl haunted by her brother's disappearance. Of the others, Paul lives only to protect his little brother Owen, while Simon is trying to hold on to his relationship with Jess, daughter of a government official. Guarding them all is Switch, a man with a flickering eye and a faster knife, who cares only about preserving the legacy of the Tube Riders. Together, they are family.
Everything changes the day they are attacked by a rival gang. While escaping, they witness an event that could bring war down on Mega Britain. Suddenly they are fleeing for their lives, pursued not only by their rivals, but by the brutal Department of Civil Affairs, government killing machines known as Huntsmen, and finally by the inhuman Governor himself.
The Tube Riders: Exile
Having narrowly escaped the Governor's savage Huntsmen, Marta Banks and the other surviving Tube Riders are on the run in northern France. Trapped inside a government-assigned quarantine zone, they search for a way out of a bleak countryside littered with abandoned worker robots and haunted by sinister monks, while at the same time a far deadlier threat than any they have faced before is searching for a way in...
The Tube Riders: Revenge
Live together, die together …
Three years after the end of The Tube Riders: Exile, the Governor is preparing for war with Europe. Within Mega Britain’s cities, pockets of rebels fight and die in the name of Marta Banks, brave leader of the surviving Tube Riders.
The Tube Riders themselves though, have disappeared. With their trail gone cold, the Governor and his deadly Huntsmen have no way to find them.
That is, until the day the Governor recovers a long lost treasure from his past, an ancient artifact that could crush the rebellion for good.
Marta Banks is about to lose everything.
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September 2014
First of all, to those readers familiar with the locations used in this novel, I’d like to offer an apology. Despite growing up in Cornwall, living in Bristol for six years, and spending long periods in London, I let my imagination run away with me. The landmarks and locations mentioned in the book are real but I have taken massive liberties with town layouts, street names, and virtually every other aspect that you might be familiar with. It is 2075, after all…
To train enthusiasts, now fuming at me for the depiction of their beauties – while I tried my best to portray the trains used in this book as accurately as possible, I have molded them where necessary to make them fit my needs. But that drainage rail where the clawboards land really is there – I looked!
And to anyone from Cornwall looking for a quick way over to France, on a booze run perhaps, that second Channel Tunnel doesn’t exist. That I know of…
The Tube Riders takes its origins from one drunken night way back in 2002 when I wondered what it would be like to hang off the side of a moving train. To whatever I had been drinking that night, I say thanks…
There are too many awesome people to mention who helped and inspired me to get this done. A big thanks goes out to my first beta readers, Isaac and Matt, and my proofreaders Lee, Fiona, Robin, Vasant and Rich. Your comments and suggestions helped make this a better book.
Thanks to Su Halfwerk at Novel Prevue for the new cover – you did a fantastic job as always, and to Jenny Twist and John Daulton for your support and encouragement.
And thanks to my family, for your support in everything I choose to do with my life. Sorry for moving to Japan, but when the wind blows you have to go. Perhaps one day it’ll blow me back to England.
Finally to my cats, Miffy and Kiki, for getting me up so early each morning, and last but certainly not least, to my wonderful wife, Shoko, for keeping me focused and my feet on the ground. I am always yours.
C.W.
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