
The Smoke and the Dead
Justice has a new name on the frontier and it is forged in steel
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
- Thriller
The year is 3077, and the old world is a ghost of radiation and dust. In the lawless expanse of the frontier, where massive cities tower over rusted war machines, only one thing is certain: the dead remember. Dex Lambert is a man out of time. A fifty-three-year-old veteran of the Cyborg-Drone Wars, he carries the weight of a fallen unit and the heavy burden of cybernetic arms that replaced what he lost in the fires of 3047. He is the Smoke Walker, a legend who wanders the wastes seeking a peace that his own trauma denies him. When Dex rides into Silverforth, he finds a thriving trade hub strangled by the Blood Reapers—a seven-hundred-strong paramilitary army led by the calculated, augmented tyrant Magnus. This is no mere street gang; it is a kingdom built on fear. To save the twenty thousand souls trapped in Magnus’s grip, Dex must ignite a revolution that threatens to consume the entire settlement. With a plasma revolver in his holster and an Orphium blade at his side, the Iron Marine must confront his past to secure the future. But in a land where steel is cheaper than life, the cost of redemption might be higher than even a ghost can pay. Ernesto Yepez delivers a gritty, high-octane fusion of futuristic western and hard-hitting science fiction.


