Together they had once smashed the criminal cover ups of a mining cartel. Suddenly two more faces from Dekker and Pollard’s past are shanghaied to Sol II: their occasional lovers, renegade pilots Meg Kady and Sal Aboujib.
The centerpiece of a top secret war project, Dekker has just lost his entire crew in a mysterious freak accident and lost his mind to amnesia from an attempted suicide. He’s been named next of kin to a man he never wanted to even see again: Paul Dekker, a young pilot who attracts crises like dead flesh draws flies. When Pollard finds himself stranded on the Sol II battle installation without his orders, I.D., and possessions, he discovers something equally disturbing. Here the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Cherryh returns to the best selling universe of Heavy Time, Cyteen, and Downbelow Station, and creates a story of multi global conspiracy, power politics, and military in fighting. In Hellburner, her newest novel, Hugo Award winner C. Then he’s forced to perform a mission of mercy and lands on an isolated, intrigue riddled space station.
Ben Pollard thinks he’s traded the perils of the Belt for security as an Earth based computer jockey for United Defence Command.
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