Adam Baker
Author
Books
Books
Adam baker was born in Gloucestershire. He studied theology at Greenwich University. He has worked as a gravedigger, a mortuary attendant, a short order cook in a New York diner and fixed slot machines in an Atlantic City casino.
Fiction
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UMBRA'S LEGION: RIME OF THE GREAT PACK 2021 | A young wolf pup and his cousins sit down to hear a tale from their grandfather about the origins of their species through an ancient folklore anecdote. Treachery, mystycism and heroism await in a fable about the origins of the Canid species! Set deep within the war-torn Umbra’s Legion Universe, this story proves that not every tale is one of blood and bullets. |
SHAMBLER'S OF WOE 2020 | Rylan Charon and his sniper team are on the run. Marooned on an alien world and surrounded by a pursuing military force, the only place left to evade detection is a derelict Getran laboratory. In order to survive, they must batten down, call for evac, and outsmart their adversaries. But what terrors loom beneath the secret lab? And what if the facility they thought was their salvation, turns out to be their tomb? |
RAVEN'S SWORD (PATH OF THE SAMURAI SERIES) 2018 Canelo | For the Samurai, death is not to be feared. It is to be embraced. Tengu, an orphaned girl, must navigate the lawless hinterlands if she is to survive and achieve her ambition to become a master swordswoman. Rejected by every school of martial skill, she joins samurai from northern Japan as they converge on a river shrine to take part in a savage tournament, a death-match from which only one can emerge victorious. Will she survive the gladiatorial combat? Or will she meet a bloody end on the arena floor? |
2016 Canelo | Japan’s warlords are on the march and nothing is as it appears. After a failed assassination attempt on the Emperor, an anonymous samurai is coerced into a suicide mission that will test his skills to the limit. He must face this challenge for his young charge, a girl who is the last remainder of his duty. The samurai and the girl must journey to a far and impregnable mountain fortress, fighting off threats and dangers on the way. The girl, knowing no other life, hopes to learn all she can of the ways of the warrior. But they do not travel alone. The hunters are also the hunted. In Winter Raven, the first in an epic and engrossing new historical series, written in spare and precise prose, we are transported to an incredible time and place in history. Brutal, tense and action-packed, Winter Raven is sure to appeal to readers of James Clavell, Bernard Cornwell and Ben Kane. |
2014 Hodder and Stoughton | The world is overrun by an unimaginable horror. The few surviving humans are scattered in tiny outposts across the world, hoping for reprieve - or death. Waiting on the runway of the abandoned Las Vegas airport sits the B-52 bomber Liberty Bell, revving up for its last, desperate mission. On board - six crew members and one 10-kiloton nuclear payload. The target is a secret compound in the middle of the world's most inhospitable desert. All the crew have to do is drop the bomb and head to safety. But when the Liberty Bell crashes, the surviving crew are stranded in the most remote corner of Death Valley. They're alone in an alien environment, their only shelter the wreckage of their giant aircraft, with no hope of rescue. And death is creeping towards them from the place they sought to destroy - and may already reside beneath their feet in the burning desert sands. |
TERMINUS 2013 Hodder and Staughton | The world has been overrun by a lethal infection, its victims locked half-way between life and death and New York bombed. A rescue squad enters the tunnels beneath Manhattan, searching for one man who can create an antidote. They must race against the disease that threatens to extinguish the human race. |
JUGGERNAUT 2012 Hodder and Staughton | Iraq, 2005. Seven mercenaries journey deep into the desert in search of Saddam's gold. They form an unlikely crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers and thieves, veterans of a dozen war zones, each of them anxious to make one last score before their luck runs out. They will soon find themselves marooned among ancient ruins, caught in a desperate battle for their lives, confronted by greed, betrayal, and an army that won't stay dead... |
OUTPOST 2011 Headline | The crew of a derelict Arctic oil refinery find themselves marooned following a globabl pandemic. Hope of rescue fades. They commandeer an ocean liner and discover thousands of passengers demented by infection. Soon they are battling an army of infected passengers ravening for flesh. |
NEW YORK GRAPHIC 1998 Orion | When a manhole cover falls out of the sky and beheads a priest, Virgil films it and sells the story to the "New York Graphic" - but one cosmic joke on its own won't get that staff job. Meanwhile, Larry dreams of the robbery that will make his fortune; can the duo kill two birds with one stone? |
ADAM'S PHOENIX 2020 Independently published | It is often said that our experiences growing up help to formulate the people we become as adults. That statement rings true throughout "Adam's Phoenix", an autobiography set against the backdrop of the 70s and 80s. For those not familiar with the adult version of the young child pictured on the front cover, this read offers a nostalgic "slice of life" view of an era that many of us remember fondly.The book deals with painful stories of broken families, alcohol and spousal abuse, bullying, and a struggle for a young boy to find out who he really is and to ultimately define the man he will eventually become. |