A PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE - now available

PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE is a series of five works of short fiction written in Derek Gunn's VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE universe. Each is a diary entry written from a vampire's point of view and set in five different periods in history.

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From the author:
The main kernel of my VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series of books came from the proliferation of 'nice' vampires that are so popular in fiction today. I never saw the vampire as an aristocratic figure, noble to a fault and lonely for a good woman's, or man's love. I always saw them as creatures who had moved on from being human over the centuries. They do not consider themselves human, most have probably forgotten they ever were. They are creatures ruled by base hunger. For all their power they are slaves to a gnawing hunger that rules there very existence.

I have written some diary extracts recently as part of a back story to the VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series. Over the course of the centuries we can see the changes going on inside the head of a vampire, how his thoughts of humanity, religion and his place in the world change him. I have tied this into the 'real' history of the world, offering a different view of how some of history's events actually happened, and the impact this had on the mindset of the vampire.

They are short vignettes that try to go some way to explain how these creatures can change so drastically. Even the most noble would change their attitudes over centuries and humans are food after all. How often do you have to eat meat to no longer consider the source as intelligent?

The GEMINI Giveaway

I’m giving away 2 digital copies of my latest thriller through Amazon Kindle. The winners will be randomly chosen on May 3rd 2011 from comments posted in reply to this contest. Winners will be notified by email so don’t forget to include it! Here's the link - The GEMINI Giveaway at the International Thriller Writers website
Here’s a little about the book:

GEMINI is a full length thriller novel by Irish writer, Derek Gunn.

Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson has to stop an elusive assassin from murdering the American President, but there’s a terminal order out on him.

Identical twin boys are born to the wife of the Deputy American Ambassador to Palestine and her illicit lover, a local businessman and a high ranking Palestinian activist in 1963. The twins are separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence…until now.

Emil Hamad is reared in Palestine against the backdrop of the political unrest and is hell bent on restoring Palestine to its rightful owners. Jack Lawson is raised as the son of a prominent American Ambassador and chooses a career as a caretaker of American freedom and democracy. Each would see himself as a patriot.

The American Ambassador to Ireland is murdered while retrieving his young daughter from a kidnapping in Dublin. The White House Chief of Staff is found dead in his private swimming pool. Intelligence from Iraq has identified a $20 million per head contract for the five architects of the political and economical systems in post-Hussein Iraq. One of those architects is the President of the United States.

It’s a race against time for Military Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson to stop the elusive assassin known as The Hangman from murdering the remaining three. But now there’s a Terminal Order out on Lawson – DNA evidence places him at the scene of the kidnapping in Ireland. The hunter has become the hunted. Lawson is on the run to catch The Hangman, prove his own innocence and stop the assassination of the President.

Derek Gunn is the author of the VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series of novels(A WORLD TORN ASUNDER, DESCENT INTO CHAOS, FALLOUT), THE ESTUARY and the SENTINELS OF THE SEA series of novellas. See http://www.derekgunn.com for more details.

My new thriller GEMINI is now available on Kindle

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Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson has to stop an elusive assassin from murdering the American President, but there's a Terminal Order out on him.


Identical twin boys are born to the wife of the Deputy American Ambassador to Palestine and her illicit lover, a local businessman and a high ranking Palestinian activist in 1963. The twins are separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence…until now.

Emil Hamad is reared in Palestine against the backdrop of the political unrest and is hell bent on restoring Palestine to its rightful owners. Jack Lawson is raised as the son of a prominent American Ambassador and chooses a career as a caretaker of American freedom and democracy. Each would see himself as a patriot.

The American Ambassador to Ireland is murdered while retrieving his young daughter from a kidnapping in Dublin. The White House Chief of Staff is found dead in his private swimming pool. Intelligence from Iraq has identified a $20 million per head contract for the five architects of the political and economical systems in post-Hussein Iraq. One of those architects is the President of the United States.

GEMINI is a fast-paced espionage thriller about a race against time for Military Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson to stop the elusive assassin known as The Hangman from murdering the remaining three. But now there’s a Terminal Order out on Lawson – DNA evidence places him at the scene of the kidnapping in Ireland. The hunter becomes the hunted. Lawson is on the run to catch The Hangman, prove his own innocence and stop the assassination of the President.