Rumors of War: The Deck Const, #1
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After the collapse of civilization, military governments fight for control of a fractured world. Sergeant Brian Burke, a team leader of the Coloradans Army directs his soldiers through a mop up of Old Francisco, which has devolved into gang warfare between criminals, rogue police officers and remainders of what's left of the National Guard. Separated from his unit, Burke is contacted by a mysterious group of survivors who inform him that he is the mystical "Soldier" who is destined to find the Deck Const, a talisman that may reunite the world in peace again.
But someone else is searching for the Deck Const, too, and Burke may have to unite the world, defeating its many armies, just to find it before it's lost forever.
Book One, Rumors of War, covers the mop-up of Old Francisco and the start of Burke's mission to seek out the Deck Const.
Duane Gundrum
Possibly the greatest translator to ever live, Duane Gundrum can speak 35 words of at least two different languages fluently. When sober, he can walk a straight line and not fall down once. Well, once, but he still thinks he was tripped. Always fascinated by the Greek Trojans, he wonders why they couldn't have gone with a different name instead of stealing USC's mascot for their own. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but don't tell anyone. You know that whole restraining order thing....
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Table of Contents
Rumors of War (The Deck Const, #1)
Prologue 1 | Video Record Dispatch from San Francisco Police Headquarters | Duty Log: Lieutenant Erick Halpern, Mission District | December 2nd: 1400 hours
Prologue 2 | Satellite Download File | VNC Video Records: Robert Mitchell Reporting in San Francisco | December 4th: 1735 hours
Prologue 3 | Situation Report: Counterintelligence Agent Steven Darwood, U. S. Army | US Army Catalogued Records: Classified Top Secret | January 1st: 0115 hours
Prologue 4 | Excerpt from one the last known published books: The End of Time (author unknown) | Found in a private library of an executed member of Francisco Resistance | Published in February, year unknown (appears scratched out by someone)
BOOK 1 | ORDER SEVEN, HOLD THE MAYOR
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
About Rumors of War
The book runs about 66 pages in book form and consists of 15,500 words. It is Part One of the Deck Const series.
About The Deck Const
The Deck Const is a universe copyrighted by Duane Gundrum, the author. For permission to use any elements of the Deck Const universe, please contact the author.
Also by Duane Gundrum
NOVELS
A SEASON OF KINGS
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUITY
LEADER OF THE LOSERS
DESTINY
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE (AWOL)
DEADLY DECEPTIONS
THOMPSON’S BOUNTY: A SHIP OUT OF TIME
THE AMERIAD
THE TEDDY BEAR CONSPIRACY
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
DARKENED PASSAGES
POETRY
LICENSE TO QUILL
SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS
BETWEEN A LAUGH AND A SCREAM
ALL ROADS LEAD TO PINE BUSH
BURIED MEMORIES
MAPPING THE SILENCE OF DREAMS
THE SHADOW PEOPLE
THE BEAST OF BEGMIRE (A REAGUL STORY)
NONFICTION
NEO REVOLUTIONARY MESSAGES
Rumors of War-TITLE PAGE
The character and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Text copyright 2014 © Duane Gundrum
No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express permission of the copyright holder.
Rumors of Wars
Prologue 1
Video Record Dispatch from San Francisco Police Headquarters
Duty Log: Lieutenant Erick Halpern, Mission District
December 2nd: 1400 hours
I’m not sure how much longer I can keep this up. I’ve lost half my men, and those remaining are on the brink of going over to the other side. Things have never been this bad.
Detective Sharp. Linda. She was the first to go. At least by her own choice. We were playing Monopoly, and she landed on Park Place. Rick had four houses on it. Said pay up. She forked over her money, excused herself to go to the bathroom, then sucked on her service revolver and pulled the trigger. Stupid Rick still thinks it’s because he made her pay up. I really need to smack him around more than I do.
That banging sound you might hear on the video recorder is the others trying to get in. They’ve been trying to get in ever since we gave up on the streets. I mean, there were just too many of them. We tried to maintain order, but there was no way. Thousands of them, and a few hundred of us. In this precinct alone, we’re down to ninety-seven; some cops thought it would be easier to join our enemies than to fight them. Intel says there are a couple of police gangs now competing with the bad guys on the streets. I can’t believe it’s come down to this.
Rick, aside from being a tool, has been pretty brave through all of this. If there’s ever a logistical connection to the real world again, I’m putting him in for a commendation, or at least a promotion. While I wouldn’t want to see him running a precinct, he’s a great asset to anyone who might have to. But I’m getting way ahead of myself. We’ll be lucky if we survive the night, a miracle if we make it through the weekend.
Oh crap, they’ve breached the perimeter again. There are too many holes in this place. We’re never going to hold them off.
I have to respond to the alarm. If I don’t return, it means they won. If so, God help us all.
Prologue 2
Satellite Download File
VNC Video Records: Robert Mitchell Reporting in San Francisco
December 4th: 1735 hours
This is Robert Mitchell of VNC Global News, and I’m here in San Francisco reporting on the battle that has been waging between the local police department and the gangs on the