Avery Cates is a bad man. As a Gunner, a hired killer in a brutal and bleak future Earth where a united government is just a prelude to the ultimate collapse of society and biology, Cates finds himself drawn into the center of the storm, an active player in the apocalyptic events that are ending man's time on Earth. But when you're not a good man you can't be a hero.

"Somers's plot sprints along through the nicely detailed ... world, but the characters are the real prize in this entertaining near-future noir."

-- Publisher's Weekly


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Reading Order of The Avery Cates Novels

1. The Electric Church (2007)

2. The Digital Plague (2008)

3. The Eternal Prison (2009)

4. The Terminal State (2010)

5. The Final Evolution (2011)

6. The Shattered Gears (2016)

  • The Shattered Gears (novella)

  • The Walled City (novella)

  • The Pale (novella)

  • The Iron Island (novella)

  • The Bey (novella)

  • The City Lord (novella)

    • 7. The Burning City (2020)

  • The New World (novella)

  • The Devil's Bargain (novella)

  • The Long Siege (novella)

  • The Dark Hunt (novella)

    • 8. The Machines of War (2023)

  • The Black Wave (novella)

  • The Last Mile (novella)

  • The Ghost Fleet (novella)

  • The Salted Earth (novella)