Locksmith's War (The Locksmith Trilogy #3) by Paul Briggs

 

Locksmith's War is the third installment of Paul Briggs' Locksmith Trilogy. Today he's bringing you an excerpt plus letting us get to know him a little better in this Q&A. Enjoy both and then ask him more questions in the comments section. Follow the tour for even more. Best of luck to you in the giveaway!

For Lachlan Smith, learning the secret of the apocalypse was the easy part.

Ever since Locksmith found the portal to the future, he has been wondering who or what was responsible for the empty, uninhabited world he found.

Now he knows—and now he has to fight them.

He thought he had fifteen years in which to prevent the extinction of the human species.

Now, he has only hours.

When the portal is stolen by a cabal of dangerous fanatics, his mother and many of his friends are trapped on the other side. Now the enemy is after him, and the only way to thwart their genocidal plan is to retake the portal and hold it—at both ends.

With very little time left, a handful of allies who don't trust each other, almost no chance of success and the survival of humanity itself at stake… Locksmith is going to war.

Read an excerpt:

Rikki’s first plan of escape was simple — wait for somebody to open the door, then pounce on them, beat them up and start running. She couldn’t act on this plan until the drug wore off.

She was still feeling jittery from the drug when the lights went out, leaving her in something very close to pitch darkness. The tags on her ears glowed in the dark. The lights stayed off for a fair stretch of time — it might have been an hour. Before long, even with the drug out of her system her pupils had dilated to the point where the light that leaked in under the doorway looked like a line of yellow-white fire, dimly illuminating the room.

Then she heard the footsteps out the in the hall. Someone was headed this way. Rikki pointed herself at the doorway and got herself into a sprinter’s crouch like she’d seen Lock do.

The footsteps stopped in front of the door to her cell. She could see the shadows of somebody’s feet. Just one person. Good. Heavier than average, from the sound of the footsteps, but still better than trying to tackle two or more people at once. Her leg muscles were ready to launch her at the enemy. She got her fists into position. A few good blows to the solar plexus and kidneys…

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Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?

Jim Butcher. Happily married, popular author, doesn’t have to worry about money unless there’s something going on I don’t know about.

What did you do on your last birthday?

I don’t really remember. Generally I meet with my family on the weekend nearest to my birthday and go out to eat.

What part of the writing process do you dread?

The last few edits. By the time I’m through them, I’m getting a little tired of the story I’m supposed to be building up enthusiasm for. And no matter how many I do, I know I’m going to miss something.

Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?

I start a completely new project—not necessarily something that’s ever going to go anywhere—and work on that until I’m ready to return to whatever I’m supposed to be doing.

Tell us about your latest release.

Locksmith’s War is the third book in the Locksmith Trilogy. In the first book, Lachlan Smith finds a portal to the future, discovers that there was no one there, and is confronted by the previous owner of the portal. In the second book, Locksmith continues to explore the world of the future and learns where the portal came from, and ultimately we find out who’s responsible for the coming extinction of the human race. The third book is the one where Lock actually has to stop them from doing it. It includes an awesome chase scene, an equally awesome fight scene, and some very hard decisions.

 

In addition to writing books, Paul Briggs has worked as a newspaper editor, court reporter's assistant, and audio transcriber. In his spare time (when he has any) he sometimes performs in community theater, most recently taking on the roles of Bottom, Petruchio, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Richard III in a Shakespeare compilation. An Eastern Shore native who grew up in Chestertown, Maryland, Paul earned a BA in English from Washington College and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland – College Park.

He is the author of several short plays, including the award-winning The Worst Super Power Ever and The Picture of Health. He is also writing the sequel to his 2018 science fiction novel Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, which vividly imagines the dislocations that follow when the Arctic Sea ice finally melts and the Chesapeake Bay is drowned by the effects of climate change.

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