PETER BESSON
GYPSY
RIDER
BYPETER BESSON
Psychologist Rebecca Maddis is entrusted with a vital task—finding the perfect candidate who can undertake the grueling months-long mission to the Red Planet.
Sam Austin is the perfect candidate. The former marine-turned geophysicist checks all of Rebecca’s boxes. But Sam is carrying hidden scars—and the overwhelming stress and isolation of a deep space mission is enough to drive even the toughest soldier to the breaking point.
Amid the whirlwind of a relentless media storm and the months of arduous preparation leading up to the unprecedented mission, Sam and Rebecca find themselves growing closer... but Sam’s journey is a one-way trip, and they both know that letting down their guard could compromise everything.
And when disaster strikes thousands of miles from home, Rebecca is faced with an impossible choice: abandon the mission, or take drastic action to save Sam’s life...
GYPSY RIDER
NEW RELEASE
THE LAST CHECKOUT
BY PETER BESSON
The Last Checkout is acclaimed screenwriter Peter Besson’s multiple award-winning dystopian fiction novel that immerses readers into a delightfully disturbing urban wasteland in the year 2031. Scientists have declared reincarnation reality, and legally sanctioned death houses have sprouted up like mushrooms in overcrowded, pollution-choked cities. Those so-called ‘Last Resorts’ provide the paying guest with the tools for a successful exit from life, with only one simple rule - once a customer is checked in, the check-out is feet-first only.
Ansel Grayson has been a resident at the Hotel Terminus for 12 years, unable to take the final step. On the day he finally works up the nerve to check out, he’s interrupted by the most recent addition to the guest list. Ansel and Nikki, broken by life and with their final check-outs looming, find themselves drawn into each other’s orbits and trying to discover a reason to live, certain they will have to die.
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Last Checkout is a powerhouse debut literary fiction novel, with distinct flavors of Orwellian despair, black humor, and dark romance. In a dying world of governmental oppression and environmental decay, could a growing ember of love between a man and a woman sentenced to death really be allowed to ignite?