From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an
action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo
man and professional finder
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo
man. He prefers the term finder.
His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword
and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry
trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security,
and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of
human-inhabited space, a backwater deep space colony called Cernee. But
Fergus' arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car
explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with
Gilger's enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of
hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into
negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has
become increasingly--and inconveniently--invested in the lives of the
locals.
It doesn't help that a dangerous alien species Fergus thought mythical
prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following
him around.
Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he's called, Fergus will need
all the help he can get to take back the Sword and maybe save Cernee
from destruction in the process.
