Neural Bounty: A Space Western Noir Thriller (Wild Frontier Chronicles, #1)

NEURAL BOUNTY: A Space Western Noir Thriller 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 payment, 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 real question isn't who Voren is-it's who she was before seven years ago. Before someone took a scalpel to her memories and left her with 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 currency and identity is the ultimate weapon. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "I absolutely loved Neural Bounty by Daniel P. Douglas. I was immediately pulled into the action by Kassidy's sassy narration and the skillful direct dialogue. "You want to know what'll keep you breathing out here? Shut up and pay attention." She's a no-holds barred, gun-toting space cowgirl with attitude and unpredictability in her genes." - KT Bowes, Readers' Favorite 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. If Altered Carbon and Firefly had a knife fight in a dark alley, Kassidy Reyez would be the one selling tickets. 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.

Daniel P. Douglas is the pen name for identical twins Phil and Paul Garver. Phillip is a U.S. Army veteran who also served as a senior analyst in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He retired from federal service in 2023. Paul's career includes over 30 years in the museum profession. He has worked for cultural and historic sites in California and Virginia, as well as for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He currently works as a mental health counselor. Daniel P. Douglas has been named a Foreword Reviews 2014 IndieFab Book-of-the-Year Awards Science Fiction Finalist and is a Readers' Favorite Award winner. His first novel, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project, centered on a decades-old government cover-up of contact with extraterrestrial life. The Richter's War series blends sci-fi with hard-boiled intrigue in Los Angeles during World War II. Douglas's first non-fiction endeavor, Six-Shooters and Starships: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Space Western Stories, explores the rich history of the Space Western genre in fiction and entertainment media. Coming in 2025, the first two books of the space Western series, Wild Frontier Chronicles, will be released along with other expanded universe projects.