John Kirk

J P Kirk is a UK-based science fiction author, proud creator of the hard sci-fi espionage thriller DEVIN's WAY

ETERNAL SPIES is Book1 in the DEVIN'S WAY trilogy: Peter Hubbard is a high-status professional, sheltered high above roaming climate refugees and London's withering proletariat. While the masses ossify through their addiction to the ‘link’, his modest aspirations keep him and Jenn firmly rooted – at least, that's his plan. Why would he ever want to change that?

But his overbearing mentor has other ideas, forcing Peter to accept a test mission in orbit. An unplanned relationship develops, and his path crosses a doomed Intelligence Operative's in a most unexpected way. Fearing for Jenn's safety, Peter returns to Earth, only to be pulled deeper into the shadowy world of espionage, where not only his identity is inevitably shattered…

...but his life also, irrevocably consumed

Eternal Spies blends popular genres 'Hard Sci-Fi' and 'Spy-Fi' to create a future world of corporate-state dominance and counter-espionage, amidst an indifferent population addicted to computer generated fantasies…

...a society not too far-removed from today's?

In Book2 "JUPITER'S MOON", Marc Devin is adjusting badly to life as an agent of Bureau 09. He has been robbed of his former identity and precious status, and must languish as a lowly 'tech for maintenance contractor 'Unitech'. Luckily for the Bureau and their nefarious schemes, this means that he can literally be anyplace, anytime under the guise of essential maintenance, but unluckily for him this dooms his future to one of filthy crawlspaces.

Amidst reports of valuable consignments disappearing in the Jovian system, Devin is stationed aboard an ice mining platform on the moon Europa to investigate. However he doesn't bank on the outright hostility and paranoia that meets him there, and the mysterious Leviathan that could threaten all of them. But as the game unfolds the thruth emerges, and he is shown how to loosen the reigns of the Bureau and regain some of his sanity before it is too late

In Book3 "MARTIAN RISING" 41yr old Marc Devin deals with an old foe at a luxury resort on Earth's Moon, and is sent to Mars to investigate reports of a rumoured 'find' deep under the frozen soil. Such a find would give the Bureau's enemy, the United States of the Americas, dominance in the region, and Devin must either twist the finding into Europa-state's interests or destroy it for good - that's assuming it even exists in the first place!

But he doesn't bank on falling for his 'mark', the young woman he is to initially exploit in order to get closer to the find. As he stares death in the face on the unforgiving surface of Mars, will Marc Devin find redemption for his soul and at last discover a way to be free of the Bureau, once and for all?

Born and raised in London in the early 1970s, from a young age the author held a deep passion for science fiction. At fourteen he was encouraged to write his first novel "The Martian God" which went on to be today's "MARTIAN RISING".

In 1987 the forgotten gem ‘Star Cops’ was broadcast on BBC2 television and Chris Boucher’s world-building and dialogue had a major influence on the burgeoning young author. As he went on to devour the ‘hard’ sci-fi of Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and later Ben Bova, Stephen Baxter, et al, this formed the basis of the author's self-confessed addiction to the genre that endures to this very day.

Over the years he also developed a passion for the ‘spy-fi’ genre through his late father’s encouragement to read the original Bond novels, but the author’s preference for realism drove him towards a love for more grittier styles. When he combined all of these influences into a hybrid ‘hard-spy/sci-fi’ genre, the anti-hero Marc Foster was born. This unlikely protagonist's journey - "DEVIN's WAY" - is available via Amazon Kindle and Paperback. Coming soon, a hardback compendium will be available that includes not only the trilogy itself, but a number of in-universe short stories that stitch the three main novels together