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    The Last Watcher
    The Last Watcher
    The Last Watcher
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    The Last Watcher

    By Lee Pletzers

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    The tower was impossibly large and impossibly black. It rose high in the green sky. 

    Aaron has watched over the tower his entire adult life. He is now an old man, and climbing the steps to his throne, his water seat, is not as easy as it once was. He has chest pains and is sometimes short of breath. His life was coming to an end.

    The creatures in the tower know this. They have waited patiently. Their chance at freedom is coming. 
    The tower is cracking. The Old Ones are stirring. 

    Another watcher must be found. 

    Dean loves bodybuilding and fencing. On the day when Sparrows go mad, he enters a unisex bathroom and exits into a barren, dust-riddled world, with a green sky and nothing for miles around--except a staircase. 

    The old Watcher meets the new Watcher. 
    Not all Watchers are destined to duty when fate steps in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWritersltd
    Release dateOct 8, 2018
    ISBN9781386367185
    The Last Watcher
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    Lee Pletzers

    Award-winning author, Lee Pletzers is a displaced New Zealand writer of the weird, wonderful and grotesque. Since 2001, he has impacted the genre world, under the pen name Richard Lee. Over seventy short stories have slammed his name on anthologies and magazines across the globe; for example; The Literary Hatchet, Calamities Press, Under the Bed and Nebula Rift. His short story “Water” was the finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel awards NZ 2015 as was his horror fan site in 2010. Five novels affected humanity and two novellas were the icing on the cake.  He is now making the move into crime thrillers. He reads a lot of them and figures he might know a thing or two. His entrance into this genre starts with the Death World duology. Twitter: http://twitter.com/threeand10 Website: http://www.thriller.nz Insta: https://instagram.com/Threeand10/

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      The Last Watcher - Lee Pletzers

      The Last Watcher

      Lee Pletzers

      First published in Japan in September 2017 by Triskaideka Books under the pen name, Richard Lee, via Amazon Direct publishing.

      This e-edition published October 2021 by Writersltd

      ©2021 Lee Pletzers

      Cover Art: 3049370253_9d0a4f63c2_o

      Cover art via Pixabay free images.

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      ISBN:9781386367185

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      This is a work of fiction. The events and characters described here are imaginary and are not intended to refer to specific places or living persons. This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher.

      Part One

      Dust filled the sky turning daylight into miasma and obscuring the clouds and green sky.

      The old man clambered up the long flight of steps and walked directly to a stone throne built in the shape of a large Sparrow. A soft, threadbare cushion gave the only comfort on the hard rock of the throne. He laid his crooked staff at the foot of the throne, brushed the dust off his long robe and took his seat.

      On the throne, he sat at the second tallest peak in the land. Below him, the ground was a sickening red-brown. Nothing grew there. The flat land rolled out before him unchanged in the ninety years he had taken breath and the tallest building rose into the sky not far off in the distance.

      It was a Tower.

      A prison built in the times of old.  

      And it held the Old Ones.

      According to

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