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Author<\/h2>\nRob Guy<\/p>\n
I have been interested in science fiction and space travel since a young boy. Growing up with the Apollo moon missions helped I suppose. In school, when asked to write fiction during English class, it was always science fiction for me. I never considered writing anything else. Fiction can take you anywhere, the limit is your imagination, but science fiction can take you so much further. To the stars and back!<\/p>\n
I first took up the pen to write seriously in my early 20’s, and wrote scores of short stories, one of which was publish in a local newsletter. I am originally from the UK, having emigrated to Australia’s Gold Coast in 2007 with my wife and two children.<\/p>\n
I write whenever I can, and do not believe in writer’s block. I write anything, even a shopping list! Harry Watt, Bounty Hunter, is my current novel, and I’m hard at work on the follow up, as well as a collection of short stories. So stay tuned.<\/p>\n
I love to write, but just as important to me is the feedback I receive from my readers. I am always available to answer any questions, so feel free to ask anything, or even post a review, good or bad!<\/p>\n
Harry Watt, Bounty Hunter is a science fiction novel written in a humorous style.<\/p>\n
Harry Watt is an interplanetary bailsman but prefers the title bounty hunter.<\/p>\n
He is charged by a judge to travel to Mars to bring back an inventor\/hydrologist accused of stealing funds from his employer.<\/p>\n
Harry soon realises something is not right with the case and so first travels to Venus Station without the judge\u2019s knowledge in order to interview another company employer that has also gone missing.<\/p>\n
On the ship to Venus he meets a member of the crew called Raquel. With her help Harry discovers that the judge\u2019s company has the contract to supply pseudo asbestos, the material being used to cool Venus down ready for colonisation.<\/p>\n
Once on Venus Station Harry meets and befriends two women who aid him in his quest to get to Mars.
\nWhilst on the station Harry is framed for murder, but manages to change his identity in order to board the ship bound for Mars.<\/p>\n
He has frequent encounters with his dead partner who gives him help with the case. Onboard the Mars ship he encounters the man who killed his partner. From him Harry learns that the judge\u2019s company plans to illegally take water from one of Mars\u2019 moons in order to extract the vast amounts of water needed for the pseudo asbestos to work. But the only way to get at the water is to destroy the moon. The two men fight, and Harry kills the man but is badly wounded in the process.<\/p>\n
Once on Mars Harry finds the hydrologist but in doing so inadvertently kills the incumbent sheriff. However he gets elected new sheriff once it is determined that the old sheriff was working with the judge.<\/p>\n
Harry learns that the Mars council reneged on their promise to supply water to the judge\u2019s company. As a result he declares war on the colony. However the judge informs then that war can be averted if the colony gives up Harry and the hydrologist.<\/p>\n
The ultimatum results in the beginnings of a civil war.<\/p>\n
The story concludes with Harry and the Council deciding how best to defend the colony against the judge.<\/p>\n
To complicate matters still further Harry\u2019s ex wife and daughter turn up.<\/p>\n
It was Tuesday. Harry hated Tuesdays. Only one thing he hated more than Tuesdays was a wet Tuesday, like this one. They were filled with grey skies and grey people. Take his latest client, back again. Grey suit, grey eyes, grey hair, grey teeth. The Honourable Judge Joseph Belmont Headlock III Junior was sat in his office, relaying all the usual bullshit, trying to make the trite sound interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want this guy back in custody by the end of the month, understand?\u201d the Judge was saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnd of the month, check,\u201d Harry replied, leaning back in his chair. He was expert at balancing his athletic, eighty odd kilogram body on the two back wheels. Headlock eyed him suspiciously. Harry fell back, his wavy brown hair falling across his forehead. He brushed it away and then idly opened a drawer in the desk to check his gun, a replica Smith & Wesson .45 semi-automatic with a thirteen round clip, laser sight, palm print ident grip, the works, circa 2030. Yep, still there. Still ready and loaded. He pictured it up against the Judge\u2019s skull, the look on his face right before he pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you listening to me Watt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said are you listening?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry grimaced and closed the drawer. \u201cI heard you. End of the week, like you said.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMonth you dumb ass! End of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bang!<\/p>\n
\u201cEven you can\u2019t get to Mars and find this guy in a week, though I admit that would be impressive. Once you have him back here, you take him to Tyrell\u2019s on Burgundy first. Okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry frowned. \u201cTyrell? What does he want with him? Isn\u2019t this a federal case?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe owes him for dry cleaning. How the hell should I know? Just make sure he sees him first before you bring him back to the courthouse. Understand?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood. Questions?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust one if I may. According to the last press release you\u2019re only looking for one man. But it\u2019s really two isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Headlock narrowed his eyes. \u201cWho told you that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a source.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA source eh? This source wouldn\u2019t happen to speak with an Irish accent would it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it true?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if it were I\u2019m not giving you any more information than you need.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFair enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery well. The State will pay the usual fee plus expenses. And in answer to your earlier query the Feds have given me autonomy on this one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCut out the inquisitor crap Watt, you\u2019re not with the Bureau anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry moved his lips but didn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n
Would that I were smartass.<\/p>\n
Headlock paused in preparation for his next sentence. \u201cAnd there\u2019s another fifty once Tyrell\u2019s finished with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry raised his eyebrows. \u201cFifty? Something tells me this isn\u2019t no ordinary criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA double negative. Stop trying to sound like a gangster Watt, it doesn\u2019t become you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry shuffled in his chair and coughed.<\/p>\n
Gangster eh?<\/p>\n
He pictured the .45 pushed into the Judge\u2019s mouth, his damn grey eyes pleading for mercy.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo late Judge, you had your chance to apologise, now it\u2019s clover pushing time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDaisheys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bang!<\/p>\n
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