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A Fox Michaels novel
Live Feed
An Everglades Survival Thriller
You're in the swamp. The cameras are watching. And you just became the entertainment.
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“Outstanding dystopian horror fiction, delivered with suspense at every turn.”
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Cam 07 · Node 500:22:14
Cold open · 0:25
Watch the first thirty seconds
The Florida Everglades · 9:14 a.m.
A little girl drops her doll over the side of an airboat.
The doll floats away from the boat.
“Ain't no current in the swamp.”
Restricted Area
Palmetto Research Station – Decommissioned
⚠ Environmental restoration in progress ⚠
Danger: Unstable ecosystem. Protected wildlife.
Federal law prohibits harassment of native species.
Violators subject to $50,000 fine and 5 years imprisonment.
Danger: Unstable ecosystem. Protected wildlife.
Federal law prohibits harassment of native species.
Violators subject to $50,000 fine and 5 years imprisonment.
Gator Bob's Airboat Tours · safety briefing: 17 seconds
“Gators don't want nothin' to do with people.”
“Haven't lost one tourist yet.”
“Good evening, subscribers. Welcome back to the Gator Farm.”
D-Train Coleman · your hostThe fights are the first act.
The swamp is the second.
Early reviews
What the first readers said
“A fast-paced thriller that had me on the edge of my seat… The alligators were terrifying, and the swamp felt dangerous on every page.”Rabia Tanveer
“The action starts at the beginning and never lets up until the end… I could not put the book down.”Alma Boucher
The book
About Live Feed
Miguel Santos was trying to get to work. Now he's Detainee 7743.
He's in a facility that doesn't exist, somewhere in the Florida Everglades, stripped of everything except the one thing they can't take: the reason he needs to survive.
His daughter. Eight years old. Sick heart. Waiting.
The warden has turned an off-the-books detention facility into the most exclusive streaming platform on the dark web. Subscribers pay a premium to watch detainees fight for release. The release? A swamp full of alligators that hunt like nothing on this earth is supposed to hunt.
Miguel has one ally: Carmen Reyes, a California attorney who saw too much and now knows too much to be allowed to walk away. Together they have to outsmart a warden who's been running this operation for years, guards who enjoy their work way too much, a black-water swamp full of apex predators, and a subscriber count of two million people betting on how fast they die.
No lawyers. No witnesses. No cavalry coming.
Just a father who refuses to die before he gets home.
The show must go on. Unless Miguel Santos has anything to say about it.
Content notes
Graphic violence and gore; torture and abuse of detainees; an on-page attempted sexual assault (fought off); racial slurs and racist violence; immigration detention and state violence; fatal animal attacks; a child in medical crisis (it resolves well); children in danger; constant strong language.
Inside the book
Two million subscribers. Three tiers.
The warden doesn't call it a prison. He calls it premium content. This is what his customers see.
Welcome back to the Gator Farm
2,041,117 subscribers online
Tier One · The Feed
$19.95 / month
- Live facility cameras
- Yard activity
- The day-to-day
Tier Two · The Pool
$99 / month · $1,000 / year
- Everything in Tier One
- Betting pool unlocked
- Fight cards called live
Tier Three · Interactive
VIP / by invitation
- Custom requests
- Viewer polls
- Audience participation
- Hunter-cam POV during the release
Off-the-books detention facility · Not registered · Not licensed · Not your concern
The system found the thing you'd die for and put a price on it.Read Live Feed
Chapter One · free to read
It starts with an airboat tour and a doll
A rich family from Washington State wants one authentic Florida experience. Their airboat captain hasn't lost a tourist yet. Then the doll goes over the side and drifts toward a sign nobody should ignore.
Princess Sparkle floated thirty feet ahead of the boat. The red painted smile bobbed on the water.
“That's impossible.” Jake looked dumbfounded. “How'd it get in front of the boat?”
“The current got it.” Now Mel was a goddamn swamp expert.
“Ain't no current in the swamp.”
The doll started moving. Floated away…
Novel to Screen
Live Feed: The Screenplay
The complete feature-length film adaptation in true spec format, one page to one minute of screen time. Six key scenes drawn as four-panel storyboards, with passages from the novel set beside the same moments in the script.
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About the author
Fox Michaels
Fox Michaels writes fast-paced thrillers set in remote places that don't show up on any map. Before turning to fiction, he wrote for film and for the software industry.
Off the page, he hikes trails that are harder than they need to be and works his way through the craft-beer list. He lives in Central Florida, close enough to the swamp to know better.
Live Feed is his debut thriller. He also writes romantic comedies as M.J. Fox, which are a lot friendlier to tourists.
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