Cover Reveal for Desert Moon

UPDATE: Desert Moon is now available. I know, I know, please stop the cheering. You can buy it here.

Okay guys and gals here is the cover reveal for Desert Moon. The book originally saw light as A Craving for Blood. In fact, you can still buy the paperback version of that book, but like George Lucas, I can’t seem to let well enough alone. Desert Moon has been rewritten, re-edited, changed, and improved. That and the much, much bigger audience provided by Kindle Direct Publishing, is why I’ve rebadged, and re-released the original book. If you are a reader of the original, welcome aboard, I hope you enjoy the second lap around the track. If you are a newcomer, I think you’ll be in for a treat.
 The story...

It's 2341, and Earth (Terra) has expanded into a multi-planet confederation policed by the strong arm of the Terran Defense Force (TDF). Using potent biped weapon platforms called CATs, tanks, and power-armored troops, the TDF wages Terra's wars. But machines are not enough, Terra also breeds soldiers to pilot her CATs. Faster, smarter, and bigger than natural born humans, the Purebreds are the ultimate warriors. Or are they? 
Battles are one thing, but assassinations, covert operations, and infiltrations are another. To handle the darker side of war the TDF geneticists have created the Assassins. Blindingly fast, unbelievably strong, and psychically enhanced, the Assassins are a match for ten Purebreds... and oh yeah, there's a twist.

To ensure they love their work, Assassins are bred to be vampires. Not the God fearing, day loathing, cooking herb impaired vampires of myth, but rather super humans with Desert Moon. The CATS, the Purebreds, and the Assassins combine to make the TDF a formidable force, but not an unstoppable one.

Against the TDF juggernaut stands one woman and the inhabitants of a small planet called Sediana. Exiled from Earth generations past, the Sedianans fight to free their planet with ancient Terran Abrams tanks, Bradley IFVs, and M4 assault rifles. Leading them is an Apache warrior, a former U.S. army general, and an Assassin who rebels not only against the TDF, but her genetic cravings as well. Together they stand against the might of Terra, and the TDF's desire to win at any cost, even if they must turn Sediana into nothing more than radioactive rock to do so.

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"Mark Walker has created a plausible, dangerous 24th-Century setting, and populated it with a cast of compelling characters. Desert Moon is a witches’ brew of entertainment: awesome battle-mechs, genetically enhanced super-soldiers, merciless vampires trained as unstoppable assassins, and a heroin whose motives give a whole new dimension to the adjective “conflicted.” Once you start reading Walker’s blood-and-thunder saga, you’ll be hooked. I began skimming the first pages around midnight… at three o’clock in the morning, my over-heated brain began chanting , “Just one more chapter…you have time for just one more chapter!” and the next thing I knew, the morning newspaper thudded on the front porch…” William R. Trotter, author of Warrenr's Beastie.

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"Often creepy, frequently breathtaking, borderline erotic, but always fun, Walker has combined a Tom Clancy-like grasp of near future war with an Underworld-esque heroine to produce an novel that military adventurists and macabre science fiction aficionados alike will treasure." Jim Zabek, Executive Editor, The Wargamer

OUT NOW on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Click here to get your copy. 

Mark H. Walker is the author of World at War: Revelation, a creepy, military action, with a love story, alternate history, World War Three novel thing. It's available from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing right here. Just $3.99. Give it a try. What the hell?