Under the Same Sky

Occurring immediately after the events of Grayman Book Two: The Ratings War, Mike Ram, at the peek of his popularity, is forced to face off against the grieving father of the teenaged mass shooter he'd killed on camera, knowing he's being manipulated by the same terrorist mastermind that recruited and armed his son.

Under the Same Sky represents one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in the career of Mike Ram, as he's being carefully crafted into a global hero as part of a daring and disturbing experiment to decisively end the tenacious threat of global terrorism. A group of powerful corporate and political players have leveraged a desperate world to create a multinational force of "surgical" strike teams, armed with advanced weapons, technology and armor, and directed by a cutting-edge AI. But more than simply employing high-tech weaponry, this new army is designed to fight a true "information war" by operating completely in the public eye, their missions crafted for maximum marketability, their operatives shaped into Hollywood-style action heroes. Now, their deadliest opponent threatens to bring it all down by using one broken man to publicly expose the vulnerabilities in their costly promises of protection.

Auteur

In addition to writing dark speculative fiction, Michael Rizzo is a graphic artist (yes, all those covers are his), a martial scientist, a collector and frequent user of fine weaponry, and a pretty good cook. He continues his long, varied and brutal career as a mercenary social services consultant, trying to do good important work while writing about very bad things.

His fiction series include Grayman and The God Mars. (The research he's done for the Grayman series has probably earned him the attention of Homeland Security.)

Check out his Facebook pages ("The Grayman Series" and "The God Mars Series") for lots of original art and updates.

He causes trouble in person mostly in the Pacific Northwest.