Gladiator (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985072275)

Ben McConnell has heard all about the New Republic - the rising city-state that plays fast and loose with the deadly z-germ parasite.
Desperate to know more about their medicine and the program that spreads it, he slips into the city to recover a sample for White Mesa's doctors.

Tommy Thaxton worries about Ben...but then, he worries about everything. Then Ben is captured, and he finds his concern well-founded.
When the White Mesa security council deems a rescue attempt too risky, it's up to Tommy and a couple friends to face the dangers of the city and get Ben out.

Can Ben survive the fight ring without stooping to the gangs' standards?
Will Tommy find a way to get Ben home - before he's killed by the New Republic's primitive criminal justice?

White Mesa Chronicles

Fifty years after the collapse of civilization, the gangs fight in the waste of the city for survival and resources, while a rising city-state tries to define its own version of "progress."
It's safer in White Mesa - the place that saw it coming. There, a God-centered worldview encourages personal responsibility and the value of human life...all human life...even the zombies.

While each book is intended to stand alone, the series chronology is as follows:
Soldier Six men under twenty, in the gang-ridden city-without supervision. What could possibly go wrong?
Zombie They say every civilization is built on the backs of slaves... Tommy never thought it would look like this.
Gladiator
Renegade When your team doesn't have you back...you get a new team.