English pinnacle book pdf
At the furthest edge of the galaxy floats the motionless and beautiful Catal Huyuk a research vessel devoted to the most cutting edge science the humanity can offer It is kept in secrecy and only employs the most brilliant minds in the universe Ande Bathar born and raised on that virtual paradise works as anthropologist overseeing a mysterious and savage alien world but one morning when chasing down a man who he thinks slept with his wife he finds himself and his home under attack Faced with horrific violence and slaughter beyond his wildest nightmares he begins a journey to save himself and the Catal Huyuk and finds himself confronting the nature of his existence and things that he could never possibly understand An action packed thought provoking first outing by Tenda Spencer who was educated at Columbia and now lives in Hong Kong An excerpt page 117 The irony he thought was that these were the best minds in the galaxy and devolved quicker into thugs and circumstantial warriors faster than any crab he had ever seen Another man with a fat belly and a red face grabbed the baton and sprinted as fast as his fat legs could carry him towards Ande He held the baton vertically in his hand at its midsection like it was a melee weapon Ande figured that s what the fat prick thought it was And then suddenly the heat baton fired downwards and pulsed into the kid s leg hitting him right above the knee and absorbing downwards into his shin it took him a second to realize what happened but by then his entire leg had been fired on He started screaming dropped the baton and fell on the floor grabbing at his leg but it was too hot and his hands were burnt too the melted flesh from his thigh sticking to his fingers He missed badly and the ray struck some rocks well ahead of Ande in the park But the son of a bitch didn t let go of the trigger and he brought the ray horizontally over to hit Ande Ande dropped looked over at Jackie and started running practically on all fours towards her The path of the beam was slow it was difficult to move the relatively immobile weapon beam which felt like two hundred pounds on a towline and after about four or five seconds Ande started to see that the rocks were beginning to smoke and after a few seconds turned orange Shit he said to himself He kept low and barreled shoulder first into a girl standing in front of Jackie throwing her and another kid to the floor Standing up he grabbed Jackie by the hand and ran as fast as they could in the opposite direction along the edge of the park The beam hit the group of students First it struck the girl s head the one who Ande had knocked over Ande heard her scream but just for a second Her head would have just ignited and popped after that But the second screams he heard were longer He turned over and saw a young man whose body was essentially black with his ribs exposed his organs seared and melded The kid screamed for twice as long as the girl then crumpled to his knees dead It was then that the other students saw what happened They turned away from Ande and ran over to the man with the baton and tackled him They were hysterical Shouting like in war Looking over Ande saw another kid grab the baton hold it over the man who had first fired it and empty it into his skull The cries of agony were even worse this time and longer as his face melted into the pavement right there in front of a small coffee bar From Pinnacle Down
.
