From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the second book in this
action-packed sci-fi caper, starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo
man and professional finder.
As a professional finder, Fergus Ferguson is hired to locate missing
objects and steal them back. But it is rarely so simple, especially
after his latest job in Cernee. He's been recovering from that
experience in the company of friends, the Shipmakers of Pluto, experts
at crafting top-of-the-line AI spaceships.
The Shipmakers have convinced Fergus to finally deal with unfinished
business he's been avoiding for half his life: Earth. Fergus hasn't been
back to his homeworld since he was fifteen, when he stole his cousin's
motorcycle and ran away. It was his first theft, and nothing he's stolen
since has been anywhere near so easy, or weighed so heavily on his
conscience. Many years and many jobs later, Fergus reluctantly agrees
that now is the time to return the motorcycle and face his family.
Unfortunately, someone has gotten to the motorcycle before him. And
before he can figure out where it went and why the storage unit that
held it is now filled with priceless, stolen art, the Shipyard is
attacked. His friends are missing, presumably kidnapped.
Accompanied by an untrustworthy detective who suspects Fergus is the art
thief and the sole friend who escaped the attack, Fergus must follow the
tenuous clues to locate and save his friends. The trail leads them to
Enceladus, where Fergus plans to go undercover to the research stations
that lie beneath the moon's thick ice sheet deep in a dark, oppressive
ocean.
But all movement and personnel are watched, and the limited ways through
the thick ice of the moon's surface are dangerous and highly monitored.
Even if Fergus can manage to find proof that his friends are there and
alive, getting out again is going to be a lot more complicated than he
bargained for.
