Vatic

A war-damaged veteran with six hours left to live and no memory of who or what he is gets handed a spacesuit, a corpse, and a problem he must solve if he wants to live.A top Company scientist has been murdered. Vatic, an on-the-run half-alive empath, will not survive if he can't find out why. Or so the Company tells him as 'an added incentive to get the job done.'Our hero soon discovers he is one of the Skilled, a genetically enhanced human, revered and despised in equal measure. A bloodhound with a terrifying past who'll stop at nothing in his pursuit of truth.And 'the Skilled always get their guy'… don't they?If you like your mysteries locked tight, your characters paranoid and secretive, and your worlds set in a mercilessly cold corporate universe, then join Vatic as he races to solve this mind-bending mystery.Shattered Helix is the first book of the Vatic Trilogy.WHAT OTHER BESTSELLING AUTHORS ARE SAYING ABOUT VATIC:"Gritty,intense, and compelling, Vatic is something you don't run into often enough in Sci-Fi--a cerebral thrill ride you don't want to end."-Michael Bunker, US TODAY Bestsellingauthor of Pennsylvania"K.J.Heritage's uncanny sense of pacing and story puts him at the forefront of today's speculative fiction writers."-Samuel Peralta, Amazon bestselling author and creator of The Future Chronicles"Prepare to lose sleep reading Vatic! Delicious Sci-Fiction!"–Kate Danley, US TODAY bestselling author"Gritty,detailed and unrelenting--Vatic will take you on a wild ride."-Peter Cawdron, International Bestselling author of Science Fiction K.J.Heritage is an international bestselling UK author of crime mystery, sci-fi and fantasy.His first sci-fi short story, 'ESCAPING THE CRADLE' was runner-up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition. He has also appeared in several anthologies with such self-publishing sci-fi luminaries as Hugh Howey, Michael Bunker and Samuel Peralta.Kev has done all the requisite 'writery' jobs such as driver's mate, factory gateman, barman, labourer, telesales operative, sales assistant, warehouseman, IT contractor, Student Union President, university IT helpdesk guy, British Rail signal software designer, premiership football website designer, gigging musician, graphic designer, stand-up comedian, sound engineer, improv artist, magazine editor and web journo. Although he doesn't like to talk about it. Mostly.He was born in the UK in one of the more interesting previous centuries. Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in the seaside town of Brighton. He is a tea drinker, avid Twitterer (@MostlyWriting), and autistic (ASD) human being.http://mostlywriting.co.uk/join/ He's a crack empath detective on the run. But when the soulless 'Company' bring him back to solve a complex murder, can Vatic escape with his life?