The Conflict Farms: The Blood Machine Cycle - Book Three
The future doesn't just run on blood. It invests in it and war has become a crop.
In the late 21st century, civilization survives on "managed conflict." Scarred regions of the world are sealed off into endless warzones where casualties are quietly rerouted into the global plasma supply chain. Each skirmish, each rebellion, each death contributes to the bloodstream of the elite - a hidden economy of suffering.
Inspector Morgan Venn, a half-infected former compliance officer, is deployed to Zone 8-R under the guise of auditing battlefield logistics. What he discovers instead is a perfectly engineered illusion: identical battles fought on loop, soldiers healed just enough to fight again, and bodies drained beneath the mud by subterranean machinery. His infection, once a curse, now allows him to sense the system's hunger - and his complicity in feeding it.
Leah Carter, a young frontline medic, notices the same impossible patterns: wounds that match, ration serums that taste like iron, "medical transfers" that never return. When a rogue courier infiltrates the camp with stolen footage of other zones - all horrors copied and pasted - Leah realizes her patients aren't soldiers. They're livestock.
As revolt breaks out and the valley burns, Venn must decide whether to uphold the blood contract that holds civilization together or destroy the machine that sustains it. Leah runs for the border with the truth in her hands - footage that could expose the entire harvest system. But exposure means collapse... and billions dead when the blood runs dry.
In a world where peace depends upon perpetual war, and every act of rebellion only fattens the beast, one question remains: If humanity built the machine that feeds on it... who deserves to survive?
Conflict Farms is a bleak, cinematic evolution of dystopian horror - where hope is rationed, justice is hazardous, and the only rebellion left is to remember the truth.
The Conflict Farms expands The Blood Machine Cycle into a surgical strike of noir and biotech horror-perfect for readers of Richard K. Morgan, Jeff VanderMeer, and Cormac McCarthy.
