About this ebook
Cars keep rolling. Planes keep flying. Ships keep sailing. Children wake in protected spectator rooms and watch the world run without adult hands.
Sean Rourke wakes alone in a stone chamber, still wearing prison orange, still carrying the weight of a crime he didn’t commit. The panel calls it the First Trial, but this isn’t a game, and it isn’t the real Tower climb. It’s character creation by ordeal: survival, judgment, restraint, risk, and social pressure under impossible conditions. The Tower doesn’t hide answers unfairly. It hides them from people who rush.
Sean isn’t chosen. He isn’t famous. He isn’t ready. He’s an out-of-shape former Miami vice cop, framed and imprisoned, and forced to survive.
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About the author
Mark E. Cooper lives in a seaside town in the south of England. His background is in mechanical engineering where he spent over thirty years working for Ford. He loves reading science fiction, epic fantasy, or urban fantasy and particularly likes strong female characters overcoming dire situations and tough obstacles. He is now the author of over ten titles written in the genres he loves to read.
