AN EASY ASSIGNMENT INSTEAD TURNS HARD AND LEADS TO A STRING OF MURDERS, AND A RACE AGAINST AN ALIEN ENEMY
Gregory Roarke—former bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent
for the ultra-secret Icarus Group—has received a new assignment: locate
a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater
colony world of Alainn.
The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably
more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her
incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell. On paper, it should be a
straightforward enough job.
But that was before there was a murder in the small town of Bilswift . . .
and another one . . . and the discovery that the Patth are already on the
scene and have narrowed the search to a heavily forested area in the
hills and mountains east of town.
Most disturbing of all is the discovery that one of Selene’s people, a
Kadolian teenaged boy named Tirano, is working at one of Bilswift’s
fish markets. A boy who may have lost his parents before his proper
socialization was completed. A boy who may be connected to both the
murders and the Patth.
A boy who may be the potentially dangerous wild card that the Kadolians
call changelings.
AN EASY ASSIGNMENT INSTEAD TURNS HARD AND LEADS TO A STRING OF MURDERS, AND A RACE AGAINST AN ALIEN ENEMY
Gregory Roarke—former bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent
for the ultra-secret Icarus Group—has received a new assignment: locate
a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater
colony world of Alainn.
The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably
more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her
incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell. On paper, it should be a
straightforward enough job.
But that was before there was a murder in the small town of Bilswift . . .
and another one . . . and the discovery that the Patth are already on the
scene and have narrowed the search to a heavily forested area in the
hills and mountains east of town.
Most disturbing of all is the discovery that one of Selene’s people, a
Kadolian teenaged boy named Tirano, is working at one of Bilswift’s
fish markets. A boy who may have lost his parents before his proper
socialization was completed. A boy who may be connected to both the
murders and the Patth.
A boy who may be the potentially dangerous wild card that the Kadolians
call changelings.
AN EASY ASSIGNMENT INSTEAD TURNS HARD AND LEADS TO A STRING OF MURDERS, AND A RACE AGAINST AN ALIEN ENEMY
Gregory Roarke—former bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent
for the ultra-secret Icarus Group—has received a new assignment: locate
a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater
colony world of Alainn.
The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably
more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her
incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell. On paper, it should be a
straightforward enough job.
But that was before there was a murder in the small town of Bilswift . . .
and another one . . . and the discovery that the Patth are already on the
scene and have narrowed the search to a heavily forested area in the
hills and mountains east of town.
Most disturbing of all is the discovery that one of Selene’s people, a
Kadolian teenaged boy named Tirano, is working at one of Bilswift’s
fish markets. A boy who may have lost his parents before his proper
socialization was completed. A boy who may be connected to both the
murders and the Patth.
A boy who may be the potentially dangerous wild card that the Kadolians
call changelings.
