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The Plague Forge by Jason M. Hough, Dire Earth Cycle #3 The elevators connected Earth to the stars. The towers suppressed the deadly plague. As the final Builder event approaches, five keys will unlock their secret. After discovering the first key in the wreckage of a crashed Builder ship, Skyler Luiken and his crew follow the migrating aura towers in search of the four remaining relics. But time is running out: the survivors learn that the next Builder event will be the last, and one of the objects has already fallen into dangerous hands... As the alien Key Ship looms above Earth, and the surface below is ravaged by corrupt councils, fanatical cults and infected subhumans, the team race to retrieve the missing artefacts. Will they finally reveal the Builders’ plan? OK so first off YES the conclusion to the Dire Earth Cycle! Ever since picking up The Darwin Elevator this has been a series that I have been looking forward to read. Its action packed, has great characters ...

 The Exodus Towers by Jason M. Hough, Dire Earth Cycle #2 When the second elevator makes landfall in Belem, Brazil, a cluster of mysterious black towers appears at its base. Skyler Luiken and his crew soon learn that the alien inhibit the deadly virus and establish a new colony. But when he encounters a crashed Builder ship outside the safe zone, Skyler makes a horrifying discovery: the infected are mutating.  As militants seize control of the fledgling colony in Belem, and power struggles above and below the Darwin Elevator threaten to destroy it, Dr. Tania Sharma races to predict the next Builder event. Will the last human outpost on Earth survive to see it? In August I read The Darwin Elevator, the first book in the Dire Earth Cycle and it brought me to the edge of my seat. In The Darwin Elevator you were introduced to a destroyed Earth, the Builders set an alien device right smack in the middle of Darwin, Australia. An elevator that reaches in to space....

The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough, Dire Earth Cycle #1 The Builders cam to earth and constructed an elevator from Darwin, Australia into space. No one knows why, or if they will return. Years later, a virus ravaged the planet. The Rare immunes survived, others became something less than human. How the elevator supresses the disease, and why, remains unknown. But scientist Dr. Tania Sharma has a terrifying theory… As Darwin collapses under the onslaught of refuges, reluctant captain Skyler Luiken and his scavenger crew scour the wasteland outside the elevator’s protective aura for essential resources. But when the alien technology fails, will humanity survive? The Darwin Elevator is the first book in the Dire Earth Cycle written by Jason M. Hough. The Darwin Elevator is also Jason M. Hough debut book. The series is a planned trilogy with the other two books, The Exodus Tower and The Plague Forge being published in August and September respectively by Titan Books....