Nerve Zero

Nerve Zero: A Novel of the Log of Hand of Tyr

A zero-g noir novel by Justin Robinson.

An engrossing noir novel of an occupied, zero gravity, artificial world.  Crime, mystery, cults, secret police, assassins, betrayal and a chase through the atmosphere of a gas giant - this book has it all!

Idriel Ramirez has returned home, haunted by the shame of being a conscripted pilot for the New Terran Empire.

Haunted by the shame that he's felt the sky.

Once respected as a nerve, now he's just pressed. Few in Hinden, clouded jewel of a fallen empire, will even look him in the eye.

Drawn into crime and mystery by Ausiel Montoya, an old itch, Ramirez tells himself he's floating through Hinden's steel nest of assassins, psychos and cultists because of what the money she promised can buy him - years off his indenture.

But as he delves deeper into the heart of his wretched homeworld he finds the secret she's carrying is as big as the secret at core of Hinden.

And just as dangerous. 

Classification: Science Fiction

Phase 5 Elements:  Human Derivative 13, Another World 101, Noir 0

Appropriate for adults. Variant violence, Death, Infrequent cursing, Brief non-graphic deviant sexual situations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JUSTIN ROBINSON

Much like film noir, Justin Robinson was born and raised in Los Angeles. He splits his time between editing comic books, writing prose and wondering what that disgusting smell is. Degrees in Anthropology and History prepared him for unemployment, but an obsession with horror fiction and a laundry list of phobias provided a more attractive option.

He has been named one of The Top Ten "New" Horror Authors on Matt Molgaard's Horror Novel Reviews!

Follow Justin on Twitter: @JustinSRobinson  or check out his Website

Author of Nerve Zero, a zero-gravity noir novel of the Log of Hand of Tyr, and Gallowsvine, another installment in the Log of Hand of Tyr, to be released in 2025.

Other publications:

Undead on Arrival, available from Solstice Publishing.

Everyman, available on Amazon.com (published by Books of the Dead Press)

Sympathizers, appearing in Space Doubles Collection 1: Set the Controls, Th3rd World Studios

The New Job, appearing in Popgun volume 2, Image comics

Contributor to No Quarter magazine, Privateer Press

Head Writer: The Satellite Show

Other work for sale on: www.th3rdworld.com 

ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST: RALPH J. RYAN

Ralph J. Ryan is lives in Maplewood, Minnesota, USA. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts in Photography and Graphic Arts, San Jose State University 1971, and followed that up with Graduate work in Theatre Arts at University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973.