Tag: Kai Wai Cheah

Guns

Picture swiped from ROGF728.

I’m currently reading up on the FN Five-seveN, as I decided to give Jake one in Jake and the Dynamo 2: Dead to Rites. I always meant to let the poor kid have a gun sooner or later. It just took me longer than I expected.

Urbanopolis doesn’t disallow personal weapons; it’s just that they’re mostly worthless, since shooting a magical monster with a conventional firearm is a good way to earn yourself an instant, fiery death. And human-on-human crime is relatively rare, partly because implacable external enemies have bred unprecedented human cooperation and partly because most every serious crime is considered a form of treason that can get you a drumhead trial and a rapid execution.

There’s a bit more military action in this volume than in the one previous. I might need to bribe Kai Wai Cheah to read parts of it over for me to make sure it’s halfway plausible.

Signal Boost: ‘No Gods, Only Daimons’

No Gods, Only Daimons is the new military dungeon punk novel from Hugo-nominated author Kai Wai Cheah, who happens to be in my writers’ group.

Cheah is a military veteran, so he knows his stuff. He writes technically dense military action told through rapid, clipped sentences. He has both a vast knowledge of his material and an excellent command of his prose.

The post-World War III world is a radically different place where magic and technology have become one in the violent struggle for global influence between nations. The rising powers of Persia and Musafiria are challenging the longtime dominance of the weakened Western powers, as the increasing use of magic provides them with a more level playing field.

Supernatural creatures from other planes are summoned and wielded as readily as machine guns and explosives by the special forces of the rival militaries, the most deadly of which are the elite contractors for the Nemesis Program. Both conventionally and unconventionally trained, the Nemesis Program is the hidden blade of the Hesperian National Intelligence and Security Agency, a weapon as lethal as it is deniable. But although they are given considerable leeway, not even Nemesis operatives are allowed to covenant with archdaimons… which poses a serious problem for Luke Landon when a simple assassination of a scientist goes badly awry.

NO GODS, ONLY DAIMONS is the first volume of The Covenant Chronicles, an exciting new supernatural Mil-SF series by Kai Wai Cheah, the Hugo-nominated author of “Titan Strike.”