Book description
THE ARMOURON
Elite warriors who banded together centuries ago to fight for
justice and for freedom.
PLANET EARTH
Under the control of a huge corporation, led by the power-mad Chairman.
THE CADETS
Trainee gladiators at the Nu-Topian Academy - where something is
very, very wrong.
SALT
The grizzled old master of the armour workshop, with a secret in
his past.
THE STORY
On a training mission in the city at night, the Armouron come
across a massive war machine standing in the middle of the city's
largest park. Thinking it must be a hologram, as there is no other way
it could have landed without anybody noticing one of them throws a
stone at it. It responds by turning its guns on him and blowing a hole
in the spot where he was standing a few seconds earlier.
Chaos ensues. The machine had been put in the park to test an
experimental cloaking device. It had treated the stone throwing as an
attack and deactivated the cloak to use its weapons. The White Knights
descend to enforce order and the park is cordoned off...
Born in Dublin in 1973, Oisin spent his childhood there and in
Drogheda, County Louth. Unable to conceive of a way to make a living
from writing fiction, he decided to fund his dreams of being an author
by working as an illustrator (yes, he was that naive). He signed up for
a design and print foundation course and then studied animation at Dun
Laoghaire School of Art and Design. Setting up as a freelance
illustrator/artist, he then took up a position at Fred Wolf Films,
working on the animated series of
Zorro
. After completing his contract, he decided to expand his horizons and
left for London to seek his fortune. He found gainful employment as a
security guard, watching over trains and then hospitals. Following three
and a half years of working in advertising he became increasingly
concerned for his immortal soul. He returned to Ireland much as he had
left - with no job, no home and some meagre savings. Ever the optimist,
he now works once more as a freelance illustrator and mercenary artist
by day and escapist writer by night. He hopes one day to have a decent
job, with a pension, a health plan and paid annual holidays.
