SynCorp Saga 1-6 (The Lazarus Protocol, Cassandra’s War, Hostile Takeover, Valhalla Station, Masada’s Gate, Serpent’s Fury) and Optional Retirement Plan – David Bruns, Chris Pourteau Free Audiobook

Written by David Bruns, Chris Pourteau
Read by David Drummond, George Kuch, Bronson Pinchot, R.C. Bray
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 58:33 (SynCorp 1-6 50:59 and ORP 7:34)

Book 1 ● The Lazarus Protocol ● David Drummond ● 7:33

Mother Nature is mad as hell. Monster hurricanes, freak sandstorms, roasting wildfires. Species disappear every day. Is humanity next? Though some believe our future lies among the stars, the American President funds the Lazarus Protocol — a last-ditch attempt to reverse Earth’s climate crisis through geo-engineering. But the New Earth Order — a mysterious league of reactionary activists with sleeper agents around the world — pursues another outcome: the subjugation of mankind to nature itself. A brilliant billionaire who wants to save the world. A lunar engineer called home to bury her father. A disgraced veteran haunted by yesterday’s mistakes. A US Army colonel, desperate to save as many people as possible. Four lives. One planet. And one last chance to save it…

Book 2 ● Cassandra’s War ● David Drummond ● 8:07

The weather is weaponized. How do we fight back? Cassandra and her Neo zealots have stolen The Lazarus Protocol — the corporate tech aimed at reversing climate change — and assaulted Earth with monster hurricanes, massive dust storms, and bomb cyclones that appear out of nowhere. Meanwhile, we the people pay the price — in blood and treasure. Making new alliances and stabbing old friends in the back, Anthony Taulke hatches a new scheme to counter the Neos. Flushed out of hiding, Ming Qinlao risks everything to reclaim her family honor. And a war-weary William Graves finds hope again in a new scheme to save humanity once and for all.

Book 3 ● Hostile Takeover ● George Kuch ● 8:55

The enemy of my enemy is my friend… until they’re not. Cassandra Station is space dust. Anthony Taulke and the Council tighten their grip on Earth’s resources to feed their ever-expanding empire. Inside the Council, jockeying to divide the spoils of corporate conquest has already begun — and so has the backstabbing. Meanwhile, we the people make our peace with a new normal: nothing is within our control. But new forces are on the horizon. An unlikely Neo leader emerges, rumors swirl of a rebel military alliance, and General Graves gets sucked into a new impossible mission.

Book 4 ● Valhalla Station ● Bronson Pinchot ● 8:36

Revolution threatens a longstanding peace… 30 years after the Syndicate Corporation saved Earth from climate-change extinction, SynCorp’s Five Factions rule the solar system with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Food, entertainment, safety, security — SynCorp provides it all. In return, the Company requires complete loyalty and obedience to corporate law. The Soldiers of the Solar Revolution claim life under SynCorp is slavery cloaked in comfort. They launch their rebellion, targeting the pillars of corporate production: sabotaging refineries on Mars, shattering Callisto’s orbital ring. Meanwhile, brutal pirates siphon off Company resources in the Belt, and hackers tap into citizens’ implants, addicting them to fantasies shaped from their own dreams. Besieged on all sides, SynCorp’s Five Factions are in retreat. The rebels aim to destroy the Company to free mankind. But does mankind really want to be freed?

Book 5 ● Masada’s Gate ● Bronson Pinchot ● 8:38

The corporate empire is crumbling from within… SynCorp’s leaders are on the run, and the Soldiers of the Solar Revolution are hot on their trail. A desperate Ruben Qinlao hides the injured Tony Taulke in the moon’s rundown barrio of Darkside. When the SSR attacks Callisto, Kwazi Jabari is pressed into service as the face of a revolution he soon begins to question. Orbiting Titan, Masada Station holds the Company’s treasure trove of tech secrets, and Cassandra Kisaan pulls out all the stops to secure ultimate victory by stealing them. Only Stacks Fischer, corporate enforcer, stands in her way. Earth is lost. Mars is under martial law. The outer colonies are the last bastions of Company rule in Sol. And the people… will they stand with Cassandra, who promises freedom? Or with SynCorp, their old taskmaster and the devil they know?

Book 6 ● Serpent’s Fury ● Bronson Pinchot ● 9:08

The final battle for SynCorp’s survival comes home to where it all began: Earth. Masada Station is secured. Adriana Rabh, Regent of Callisto, has evaded capture. But Cassandra is about to put Tony Taulke, the CEO and living symbol of SynCorp itself, on trial for his life. Ruben Qinlao leaps into action to free Tony, while Stacks Fischer escorts Bekah Franklin to the Moon to complete Project Jericho — key to defeating Cassandra. Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Benjy Anderson faces the toughest moment of his young life as his mother falls victim to Dreamscape’s addictive seduction. But then he catches a conqueror’s golden eye… SynCorp and the SSR prepare for a bloody engagement above Earth, mankind’s birthplace and the seat of the largest corporate empire in history. Who will live? Who will die? What fate awaits humanity when the dust of battle clears?

Standalone ● Optional Retirement Plan ● R.C. Bray ● 7:34

When retiring isn’t an option, it’s kill or be killed. Stacks Fischer is a killer for hire. For more than three decades, he’s loyally served the Syndicate Corporation as its most-feared and respected enforcer around the solar system. He’s buried the company’s dirty laundry six feet deep, no matter who had to be taken out to do it. Now, Stacks has a problem — he’s losing his mind to incurable form of dementia, and unwittingly spilling corporate secrets in public. When SynCorp decides Fischer has outlived his usefulness, they decide it’s time to permanently retire him. But Stacks isn’t quite ready to go. With every one of SynCorp’s Five Factions gunning for him — and his own mind slowly rebelling — Fischer leads a pack of would-be assassins in a final, deadly chase across the solar system. The old hit man refuses to fade quietly into oblivion at the hands of his disease or the business he’s dedicated his life to. He’s choosing an Optional Retirement Plan.

—
davidbruns.com/syncorpsaga
chrispourteau.com/syncorp-saga

By David Bruns and Chris Pourteau:
SynCorp 1 – The Lazarus Protocol (2018)
SynCorp 2 – Cassandra’s War (2018)
SynCorp 3 – Hostile Takeover (2018)
SynCorp 4 – Valhalla Station (2019)
SynCorp 5 – Masada’s Gate (2019)
SynCorp 6 – Serpent’s Fury (2018)

By Chris Pourteau:
Optional Retirement Plan (2019)