Ram Carnes was told he had 24 hours to live.
That was over seven hours ago.
As heâd say, âAny way you crunch those numbers, they donât add up too good for me.â
Before Ram got his own death notice in the first volume, he was a just a low-level process server, a reaper, for the Death Notification Agencyâthe DNAânow the biggest government organization in the world thanks to a mystifying, highly-guarded technology known as The Machine that can determine the time of anyone's demise, right down to the minute.
But now Ramâs the one whose life about to go belly up, and as everyone knows, The Machine is never wrong when it comes to predicting deaths.
But maybe it is this time.
At least thatâs what Ramâs hoping after discovering that his boss in District 598.4AâHollywood, Floridaâwas scheming to game the system by offering up Ramâs life instead of his own, along with a handsome bribe, to the shadowy figurehead of the DNA⊠Moirai.
Volume Two: The Gauntlet picks up right where the electrifying first volume (The Reaper) of the six-part DNA series left offâwith Ram heading out for New York City to confront the mysterious Moirai and get to the bottom of this unraveling conspiracy before his clock runs outâŠ
But this time, Ramâs not going at it alone. Heâs got an angel riding with him in the form of Camille, Mr. Dukesâ receptionist turned unlikely sidekick. But even with Camilleâs help, the next few hours are about to get a whole lot worse for Ram Carnes on this desperate crusade to save his own skin.
Julian Oliver Meiojas's DNA series, illustrated by Mad Dog Jones, hurtles forward into another adrenaline-fueled, hardboiled hellride from NeoText, inspired by the classic illustrated novels of the golden age of action-adventure science fiction.
Illustrations by Mad Dog Jones