The A-Men: dark and gritty dystopian sci-fi
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Jack is a man with no memory awakening in a dark and dangerous metropolis on the eve of its destruction. The only clue to his former life, a handwritten note in the pages of an ancient book of faerie tales entitled Forevermore.
Marked for death in a peace-keeping force sent into the riot-torn city, he finds sanctuary and survival with other renegades on the streets of the place now called Dead City. Battling to survive they form the infamous A-Men, misfits with a unifying dream to be special. That is until their paths cross with Dr Nathaniel Glass and his mysterious experiment locked deep beneath the Phoenix Tower.
Mixing dark future, noir and urban fantasy, join The Nowhereman, Sister Midnight, Pure, D’Alessandro and 23rdxenturyboy as they fight for their lives on a hellish ride through an ultra-violent world of nightmare and death.
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