Welcome to the Machine, an enormous, ancient, broken device that has become home to a million souls. After a hundred generations spent without doors or windows, all knowledge of the outside world, if any, is lost. Today, society is split between the all-powerful Upperfolk, who rule, and the helpless Lowerfolk, who work, suffer, and die. Helpless, that is, except for Torq, the Lowers Champion. Concealed behind his golden mask and armor, Torq alone fights for justice and freedom. Until the day when sixteen-year-old Rand Roberts, the poorest of the poor, witnesses his hero’s demise and subsequently discovers Torq’s disillusioning and heartbreaking secret. Now, Rand decides, it’s time for the Machine to have a new Torq. A better Torq. A REAL Torq. Let the revolution begin...
See how it all ends, and final secrets are revealed and a new future for the Machine is realized. Thanks for listening!
Torq faces the last of the vindicators, which the future of the Machine in the balance. Along the way, he discovers a long-forgotten truth that will forever change his world.
With Torq and his friends close to real success, Baird and Gammon play their final card, a card that may cause Ainsley her life!
With Ainsley, Lucy, and their new friends besieged by one of Gammon's monstrous vindicators, can Torq get to them in time? And, if he does, can he then face down an army of keepers?
Torq's battle with Grabber concludes. Ainsley and Lucy find themselves new allies. But Gammon and Baird are far from done.
It's Torq to the rescue! But, with a metal monster attacking the Upper and Rand and Ainsley struggling to stay out of the Upperlords' hands, with this golden new hero be enough to save the Machine?
With Lucy and Ainsley facing death, Rand must face the true history of the Machine and embrace his own part in its future.
When yet another plan goes badly awry, Rand and his friends find themselves in dire straits. But is all really as bleak as it seems?
Rand, Ainsley and Lucy find some unlikely allies and make a desperate bid to return to the Lowers in time to warn everyone about the impending attack.
Ainsley and an injured Rand move through the nighttime Uppers, dogged by Keepers and desperate to reunite with Lucy. But how can they escape the net cast for them by the Upperlords?
Rand, in his Torq armor, heads to the Uppers, only to find a world of wealth beyond anything he ever imagined. Of course, he doesn't know he's walking into a trap!
Traveling secretly to the Uppers, Ainsley and Lucy find out just how quickly plans can go wrong, often with tragic consequences...
Ainsley finds Rand deep in the Lowers and, together with Rand's partner, Lucy, they hatch a plan to unmask the Upperlords' new plan, "Project Vindicator."
Ainsley's wealthy father reveals the truth of Torq and warns her against involving herself further. But Ainsley ventures into the Lower Machine anyway, determined to warn Rand of the forces building against him.
Torq returns in the nick of time, but with someone new under the mask...
Ainsley begins her investigation of the "real" Machine, an adventure that will get her into more trouble than she can imagine.
Rand and No Name learn the truth about Torq and must decide what to do about it...
When disaster strikes, both Rand and uppergirl Ainsley Pinkerton struggle to unravel the mystery of Torq.
Meet Rand Roberts, a denizen of the lower Machine who, despite his desperate poverty, fights for justice and defends the weak. It's a noble calling, but one that might just get him killed! To buy the printed novel, visit Amazon HERE! Or, if you want a SIGNED copy, visit www.tydrago.com!
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