Felix is carrying data no one's allowed to have, and he has 90 minutes to stop it cooking his brain.
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Start here. Set in the same world as the Veil Trilogy, with new characters. You don't need to read Veil first.
Felix is carrying data no one's allowed to have, and he has 90 minutes to stop it cooking his brain.
Corporate assassins are hunting him. Even the cops want him dead. He's burned every favour and has no one left to trust…
except the one person he swore he'd never turn to.
The job was simple: take the data, make the drop, collect the money, and get out.
But when the pickup gets raided, the client dies, and the package turns out to be a girl who's wanted by the New Analogue Movement, Felix has to avoid capture long enough to make the drop in the Black Forest before he's caught by Cops and killed by hunters.
Can Felix survive this hard traffic, or will he end up as just another body?
Each arc stands alone — just read each one in sequence.
The most dangerous thing in Neo-Kyoto isn't just trying to kill him. It's trying to wear him.
A parasitic AI grows in hacker Kaihl's neural implant. With three unlikely allies, he races to destroy Neon Veil before it infects enough human minds to become a digital god.
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One year after the fall of the Tachibana Spire, the revolution has evolved. But Kaihl has not survived it intact.
The city rebuilt itself around the wreckage. Kaihl rebuilt himself around the silence. Now something new is rising — and it remembers his name.
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Kaihl has one last chance at saving his humanity. If he doesn't get it right, he won't be the only one who pays.
The conclusion to the Veil Trilogy. Neo-Kyoto is burning and Arashi is everywhere. The final chapter of Kaihl's story.
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Felix Voss's movement trace through Neu-Berlin. Click the map to run the route.
Space / tap to jump · double jump · Esc to exit
Start with Hard Carry, book one of the Neu-Berlin Arc. It's a fast, darkly funny cyberpunk thriller: courier Felix is carrying data no one's allowed to have, with 90 minutes before it cooks his brain. If you prefer AI-and-hacker cyberpunk, start with Neon Veil, book one of the Veil Trilogy.
The Neu-Berlin Arc: Hard Carry (1), Hard Traffic (2), Hard Exit (3). The Veil Trilogy: Neon Veil (1), The Ascendant (2), Analogue Dreams (3). Both series are set in the same world, but you can start either one first.
No. The Neu-Berlin Arc has new characters and a new story. You can start with Hard Carry without reading anything else.
Yes. All six ebooks, including Hard Exit, are on Amazon Kindle and free to read with Kindle Unlimited. Hard Carry is also in paperback, hardback and audiobook, and Neon Veil is in paperback and audiobook.
Fast, gritty cyberpunk thrillers about people trying to survive together in systems that don't care if they live or die. Readers have called Hard Carry "John Wick meets Johnny Mnemonic". For fans of William Gibson, Altered Carbon and Blade Runner.
J.S. Holloway is a cyberpunk author published by Station Press, writing the Neu-Berlin Arc and the Veil Trilogy.
J.S. Holloway writes fast, dirty sci-fi about people trying to survive together in systems that don't care if they live or die. Drawing inspiration from the smart digital landscapes of the future and the gritty new wave sci-fi of the past, Holloway's work explores themes of identity, togetherness and what it means to be human when even your humanity is for sale.
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