Haywire: A Pandemic Thriller

Imagine you were honeymooning on the grandest, largest, most expensive cruise ship ever to sail the world’s oceans. Everything is perfect. Everything is always perfect on board the First Lady of the Sea, a super-liner designed to provide passengers with the ‘ultimate’ luxury cruising experience.

Highly-trained staff cater to your every need. International cuisine and activities you never imagined possible are waiting right outside your cabin door. You can dive in the world’s largest floating aquarium. You can join the action in the big tent circus or spend your days shopping duty-free in exclusive designer boutiques. Everything is just waiting for you. This is the best time of your life.

Now imagine the next morning you wake up to discover half the ship’s passengers have turned into homicidal maniacs. Quite literally, one half of the ship has declared war on the other half. Husband against wife. Brother against sister. The ship is a warzone. An epidemic of violence has swept through the ship, transforming its opulent decks into the most disturbing type of battleground.

Mindless, zombie-like brutality has overtaken the ship during the night, and when you awaken, the only thing standing between you and them is your cabin door…

Special note: HAYWIRE has an active table of contents, is approximately 100,000 words, and displays seamlessly with Kindles and all other eBook reading devices.

A message from Daniel J. Murphy, Gold Star Father of Navy SEAL LT Michael P. Murphy who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor:
"As the father of a Navy SEAL LT and hero, I not only saw similarities between Captain Coleman and my son, Navy SEAL LT Michael Murphy, but Shane Brown captures with such clarity, the brotherhood between and amongst United States Special Operations personnel and their "Never Quit" attitude on every mission"

About the Author:

Hi there!

If you haven't landed on this page by accident, then you're one of those curious people, like me, who likes to know a bit more about the authors we read. My life is much less exciting than my writing (thank goodness, because I put my characters through hell!)

I married my university sweetheart (not sure how she still puts up with me) and I’m the lucky father of three young children (Cassandra, Luca and Nicholas). We live in Brisbane, Australia. I met my wife at James Cook University, where I completed a Bachelor of Biological Science with duel majors in Zoology and Archaeology, a First Class Honors Degree in Underwater Archaeology, and a Masters Degree in Environmental Management. My writing draws on these disciplines, but while researching for books I try to never stop learning.

To date, I have completed five novels and an anthology of shorter stories. Right now I’m working hard on my sixth novel, and very much enjoying my role in assisting with the development of a feature film based on one of my short stories.

I love hearing from people, and I reply to all my emails. Feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you like, or what you think I could do better. Like I said, I’m always trying to learn.

Have a great week,

Shane M Brown