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    Colony of The Dead
    Colony of The Dead
    Colony of The Dead
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    Colony of The Dead

    By Eric S. Brown

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    All communications with The Tarican 4 Colony, a new Earth terra-forming project, were lost. No one in Earth Gov. could explain why. A joint military/civilian team of soldiers and experts have been dispatched to investigate the sudden silence, but will they be ready for what they are about to discover?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric S. Brown
    Release dateSep 26, 2013
    ISBN9781301593958
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      Colony of The Dead - Eric S. Brown

      Colony of The Dead

      Smashwords Edition

      By: Eric S. Brown

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      Colony of The Dead

      The Guide

      No Stinking Yankee!

      Copyright © 2012 Eric S. Brown

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or photographs contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of the author or artist.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Cover Art and eBook Layout By: Jason Thacker

      Table of Contents

      Colony of The Dead

      The Guide (Bonus Bigfoot Story)

      No Stinking Yankee! (Bonus Zombie Story)

      Colony of The Dead

      Commander Devon leaned back in his chair, rubbing his bloodshot eyes with the heels of his hands. He was a tall, barrel-chested man in his early fifties whose face always registered the expression of a man ready to split heads. Only those who had known him for a while knew the truth. He was in fact a fair man who split heads only when it was called for.

      He poured himself another cup of tea to help him stay awake while he tried to make sense of the reports scattered over the top of his desk. They all said the same thing. Communications with Tarican 4 had been lost slightly over thirty five hours ago and could not be reestablished though according to long range scans the planet's orbital defense array remained fully functional. Those same scans of the planet revealed no humanoid life. Yet the colony's outer structure was not compromised and the colony’s internal power was still online and fully operational.

      Devon sighed and looked over at Clark, who sat shuffling through a stack of reports of his own. It just doesn't make any sense. Devon said. No matter how you look at it.

      Clark glanced up at the sound of the commander's voice, setting aside the reports he'd been reading. He was a xeno-biologist and the head of the civilian science team assigned to the mission. He was a small man with pale skin and thick glasses in the style of the 21st century. He refused to undergo any sort of surgery or genetic manipulation to repair his poor sight, preferring to tough out the affliction he'd been born with. His black hair was in complete disarray due to his habit of running his fingers through it repeatedly when he was nervous or working on a complex problem.

      I know what you mean. Clark answered. No alien force could have made it through the defense stations without at least rendering them inoperable. And there are no documented life forms on Tarican 4 that could have wreaked such havoc on the colony.

      Devon scowled. "You sure about

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