Jon Washington is a journalist who knows how to find the story — even when the story is trying to kill him. He went into Florida on assignment. He stayed too long. By the time he understood that, it was too late for the people he loved.
The world has already closed its doors to America. A second wall is going up in case the first one falls. Three months into the quarantine, the nation isn't contained — it's holding its breath. Then the disease appears north of the wall, in places no infected person has ever reached. The logic of a wildfire doesn't care about concrete and steel. Neither does nature.
Now the quarantine is meaningless, the infected are evolving into something that hunts with a terrifying collective purpose, and Jon is one of the last reporters still standing inside what used to be a containment zone.
Responsible for a group of abandoned children who have survived the nightmare with a resilience that shames every adult around them, he has one job left: get them north.
But as he documents the exodus, Jon glimpses something in the wreckage that doesn't fit. Something gestating in the ruins of the old world that suggests the wall didn't just fail — it was never going to be enough.
No Safe Distance is the first dispatch from the end of the old world, and the terrifying dawn of the next.
TRUST NO ONE
2043: The Solar Umbrella was built to save us. Now it’s being used to end us.
Earth’s orbital shield is humanity’s last defense against a scorching sun. But when a fanatical alliance—led by a televangelist and an imam—moves to seize control of the system, the cure becomes the weapon.
UN hydrologist Dicky Kruger survives a brutal attack in the Sahel only to find himself at the heart of the conspiracy. Together with engineer JP and climatologist Sophie, he must race to stop the countdown to apocalypse as the Umbrella is turned into a precision tool for flood, drought, and fire.
As the team navigates a minefield of espionage, political pressure, and religious fanaticism, Dicky carries a heavy burden. To save the world, they’ll have to confront not only the enemy without—but the devastating secrets within.
The heat is rising. And trust is the first casualty.
From the bestselling author of Bastion Saturn comes a relentless technothriller about weaponized climate tech, corrupted faith, and how easily one system can end the world.
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IN 2023 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT DIED, GIVING WAY TO THE AGE OF AI
A swashbuckling space opera, Bastion Saturn is a dramatic, often humorous, action-packed romp that explores the best and worst of humankind while questioning the very definition of humanity.
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Of Sudden Origin
Straight ahead Sci-Fi at its best!
First class space opera. Rip ROARING adventure
The books would work well on the big screen
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The OF SUDDEN ORIGIN Saga
A relentless tale of heroism, cowardice, cruelty, barbarity, fear, lust and love.
Perhaps once in an epoch, events force evolution to take a giant leap and a life form arises that is aberrant to that from which it sprang. This process is known to science as Of Sudden Origin.
Easily one of The Best Apocalyptic Books I've ever read! — Amazon Reviews
Scratch & Sniff is Mr. Harwood's first
YA Novel.
Two hapless entertainers come from a Universe where physics is more like cartoons.
Escaping from the wrath of their evil monster overlords, Scratch & Sniff find themselves zooming through a vortex to land in Kansas USA. The trouble only starts from there.
My style as a writer is to let the tale come to me rather than heavily plot an outline. This organic telling results in my enjoying the same delight as the reader. As the story unfolds, the characters reveal the twists and turns, their individual branches leading to where there is most light. Relationships bud and collapse, conflicts abound, existence is pondered, and finally a satisfying resolution presents itself. And of course there is action. I am a literary adrenaline junky. It is my job to build your curiosity, tease your senses and keep you on the edge of your seat.
