Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:The Painkiller Chronicles
  • Series Number:1
  • Pages:192
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317843427

The Painkiller Chronicles

The Arrival

By Jules Dash II

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Overview


When the sky tears open above the White House, one chrome guardian delivers a single chance to humanity: free the children or face the purge. For ten-year-old Jacob Ruiz, the arrival of Painkiller is the first flicker of hope since his sister, Sofia, vanished. But in New Metro City, the real harvest has only just begun.
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Description


When the sky rips open and a white lightning bolt strikes the White House lawn, the world changes forever. An eight-foot chrome warrior known only as Painkiller has arrived—forged in the fires of the Andromeda Nexus and bound by the ancient law of the Great Balance. His mission is simple and merciless: offer the garden world one final chance… then purge the Draconian taint root and branch if humanity will not rise. In the shadowed streets of New Metro City, children are vanishing. Warehouses marked with glowing red sigils hide horrors the authorities refuse to acknowledge. While the powerful look the other way, a desperate network of mothers and survivors begins broadcasting the truth. At the center of the storm stands young Jacob Moser, searching for his missing sister, Sofia. When Painkiller's path crosses his, an unlikely alliance forms—one that will ignite a resistance and awaken something ancient in the human spirit. With the help of sharp-tongued hacker Kara Vex, battle-hardened Captain Jax Walker, and the fierce maternal strength of Maria Ruiz, Painkiller begins the reckoning. Chrome meets flesh. Ancient runes burn against modern corruption. And the vow echoes across the broken city. Every last one. "Painkiller Chronicles: The Arrival" is the explosive first chapter of The Painkiller Chronicles—a dark sci-fi saga of cosmic justice, found family, and the long road between wrath and redemption. Blending heavy-metal thunder with mythic depth, this is a story for anyone who still believes broken people can stand against the darkness… and win.
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About The Author


Jules Dash II is the creator of "The Painkiller Chronicles," a dark sci-fi/cosmic horror saga forged in pulsar fire and heavy-metal soul. Born from a lifelong obsession with ancient myths, hidden histories, suppressed truths, and the eternal war between light and shadow, Jules writes stories where ordinary, broken humans stand shoulder-to-shoulder with cosmic warriors in the fight for a garden world on the brink of annihilation. At the heart of the series stands Painkiller—the Last Warden, an eight-foot chrome enforcer of the Great Balance—and the unlikely family of knights, mothers, and children who refuse to surrender hope even as the sky tears open. What began as a single image of a chrome giant protecting a child with a missing-poster sign has turned into a multi-book epic spanning continents, dimensions, and the thin line between wrath and mercy. Book one, "The Arrival," brought the reckoning to New Metro City. Book two, "The Convoy," sends the resistance on a 2,400-mile road west through fire, knighting, and betrayal. Future volumes will take readers to the frozen black pyramids of Antarctica, the ashes of a post-Samson world, and the hard work of building something better. When he is not bleeding words onto the page, Jules can be found studying lost civilizations, training with steel, exploring forgotten texts, and reminding himself daily that every last child, every last soul, and every last spark of free will still matters. He lives with the quiet conviction that stories are not mere entertainment—they are weapons, lanterns, and maps for the long road ahead. The "Painkiller Chronicles" is more than fiction. It is a call to those who feel the weight of the coming storm and still choose to stand. Every last one.
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