Nonstop action-adventure SF from legendary game creator Frank Chadwick. With one single act of kindness, a tough-as-nails hood with a heart of
gold saves two alien children from assassination — and resets the balance
of galactic power in the process.
Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster. He’s a gangster with heart, sure, but
Sasha sticks his neck out for no man. That’s how you stay alive in
Crack City, a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise
unlivable planet Peezgtaan. Alive only — because if you’re human, you
don’t prosper, at least not for long. Sasha is a second generation City native. His parents came to this rock figuring to make it big, only to
find that they’d been recruited as an indentured labor force for alien
overlords known as the Varoki.
Now a pair of rich young Varoki
under the care of a beautiful human nanny are fleeing Peezgtaan, and
Sasha is recruited to help. All things considered, he’d rather leave
the little alien lordlings to their fate, but certain
considerations — such as Sasha’s own imminent demise if he remains — make it beneficial for him to take on the job.
But Sasha discovers his
simple choice has thrust him into the midst of a political battle that
could remake the galactic balance of power and save humanity from slow
death by servitude. Now all he has to do is survive and keep his
charges alive on a hostile planet undergoing its own revolution.
But it’s the galaxy that had better watch out. For now the toughest
thug in Crack City has gotten his first taste of real freedom. He likes
it, and wants more.
The stunning debut of a nonstop science fiction noir thriller from legendary game creator Frank Chadwick.
