Neural Bounty
(2025)(The second book in the Wild Frontier Chronicles series)
A novel by Daniel P Douglas
NEURAL BOUNTY: A Space Western Noir Thriller
"Fierce, cinematic, and relentless, this is sci-fi for readers who like their stories sharp-edged and unforgiving."
—NewInBooks
Seven years hunting the galaxy's worst. This time, she's hunting herself...
Kassidy Reyez doesn't ask questions about her past. She hunts bounties, collects her geld, and keeps her demons locked down tight. But when a corporate contract sends her after a simple tech thief, her carefully constructed life starts unraveling faster than a hyperdrive in a plasma storm.
Her target: Rask Voren, a Stygian Duster who stole prototype neural tech. Her problem: Every step closer to him triggers memories that shouldn't exist. Her countdown: Andrasian black sites don't lose experiments. They retrieve them.
White walls. Clinical voices. "Subject A-Seven, respond."
As Kassidy tracks her prey through the lawless frontier between three empires, she discovers the hunt for Voren and the stolen tech hides a darker question: who was she before seven years ago? Before someone gutted her mind and left her with combat skills she can't explain and instincts that terrify her.
In a galaxy where the Galactic Federation plays politics, the Ethnarch Kingdom treats women as property, and the Andrasian Republik experiments on human consciousness, Kassidy must decide: Is she the hunter or the hunted? And when she finds out who stole her past and left her with only seven years of memories, will she thank them or paint the stars with their blood?
From Daniel P. Douglas, author of Smuggler's Rebellion, comes a brutal noir thriller where memory is commodity and identity is the ultimate weapon.
CONTENT WARNING: This novel contains violence that would make a Stygian Duster duck and cover, language sharp enough to cut durasteel, and zero patience for anyone who thinks consciousness is a commodity.
Book II in the Wild Frontier Chronicles. Can be read as a standalone.
Fans of Altered Carbon, Firefly, and The Mandalorian should add Neural Bounty to their reading list!
Perfect for readers who like their sci-fi served with:
"Fierce, cinematic, and relentless, this is sci-fi for readers who like their stories sharp-edged and unforgiving."
—NewInBooks
Seven years hunting the galaxy's worst. This time, she's hunting herself...
Kassidy Reyez doesn't ask questions about her past. She hunts bounties, collects her geld, and keeps her demons locked down tight. But when a corporate contract sends her after a simple tech thief, her carefully constructed life starts unraveling faster than a hyperdrive in a plasma storm.
Her target: Rask Voren, a Stygian Duster who stole prototype neural tech. Her problem: Every step closer to him triggers memories that shouldn't exist. Her countdown: Andrasian black sites don't lose experiments. They retrieve them.
White walls. Clinical voices. "Subject A-Seven, respond."
As Kassidy tracks her prey through the lawless frontier between three empires, she discovers the hunt for Voren and the stolen tech hides a darker question: who was she before seven years ago? Before someone gutted her mind and left her with combat skills she can't explain and instincts that terrify her.
In a galaxy where the Galactic Federation plays politics, the Ethnarch Kingdom treats women as property, and the Andrasian Republik experiments on human consciousness, Kassidy must decide: Is she the hunter or the hunted? And when she finds out who stole her past and left her with only seven years of memories, will she thank them or paint the stars with their blood?
From Daniel P. Douglas, author of Smuggler's Rebellion, comes a brutal noir thriller where memory is commodity and identity is the ultimate weapon.
CONTENT WARNING: This novel contains violence that would make a Stygian Duster duck and cover, language sharp enough to cut durasteel, and zero patience for anyone who thinks consciousness is a commodity.
Book II in the Wild Frontier Chronicles. Can be read as a standalone.
Fans of Altered Carbon, Firefly, and The Mandalorian should add Neural Bounty to their reading list!
Perfect for readers who like their sci-fi served with:
- Morally gray protagonists who shoot first
Whiskey-soaked noir atmosphere in zero gravity
Identity crises with body counts
Frontier justice at hyper-drive speeds
Female characters who'd rather break your face than your heart
Fans of Richard K. Morgan, Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, and anyone who misses the hell out of Cowboy Bebop—this one's for you.
Genre: Science Fiction
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