Gunn Files

People say, "Keep Austin Weird!" If only they knew... Bounty hunter Anderson Gunn has had enough of this alien stuff. He can accept that offworlders live among us. He can even be friends with them. But that doesn't mean he wants to be involved in their affairs. So, naturally, it's just his luck that when Gunn tries to go back to his normal life of collecting bail-jumpers and minding his business, the Gatekeeper-Austin's kingpin of extraterrestrial commerce-offers him a job. Worse, after Gunn refuses to take the gig, his buddy Vinny winds up in a drug-induced coma. Is this Gatekeeper's dirty work? Or is there a new big ugly in town? One thing's for sure... Gunn's life won't be going back to normal any time soon.

An alien war looms over Earth... And Anderson Gunn is helpless to stop it. Messages from intergalactic allies paint a stark view of the future: War is inevitable. The future is set, but the timeframe unknown. All he can do is train, worry, and wait. A knock on the door brings a much-needed distraction-a bounty hunting job. There's only one problem. This client is of the offworlder variety. Gunn's an expert at tracking down missing humans. But missing aliens? That's a whole different ball game. The case hurls Gunn and his friends to the brink of the impending conflict, where they stumble on an alien technology that will irrevocably alter the course of human history. War is bad enough on its own, but this? This will change everything.

This timeline is set to expireWhen Gunn investigates a blood-soaked crime scene without a body, he stumbles into a time-torn battle for Earth's future.Now, he's caught between warring factions: a charismatic alien revolutionary promising Earth's freedom, and the galactic Federation's inscrutable iron grip.The key to it all is a temporal device of alien manufacture. It can flood streets with water from the pastor reshape humanity's futureand it's fallen into enemy hands.With the help of a rogue Peacekeeper, an underground resistance, and his quick wit, Gunn races to recover the stolen device before time runs out.Because someone's about to rewrite Earth's history, and humankind might not survive the edit.Nick of Time is the explosive fourth book in The Gunn Files, a fast-moving science fiction joyride that combines noir detective fiction with humorous sci-fi in the tradition of John Scalzi and Douglas Adams.