Void
by Matt Thomas
Humanity's idealism barely outlived the first generation to live and work in space. Fortunately, The Contract predicted this loss. The document that launched space colonization also created the Thirty-Twos, "neutral" detectives charged with keeping the various corporate empires intact and the controlling the criminal detritus following the human expansion.
Lind Michaels hovers between his Thirty-Two status and becoming detritus himself. His partner is dead from a freak accident, leaving Lind alone and stranded between planets. Lind can't imagine living, much less working, in his emotional state. But when his superiors assign him to rubber-stamp an apparent suicide, his hope for distraction turns to obsession. One body floating in space leads to many more. With each corpse, the conflict between Lind's depression and his rage fling him further into a world much darker than his own.
Without a partner, and without the guidance of The Contract, he strays far from his established path. Years spent among desperate colonists and greedy corporations convinced Lind he understood how the Solar System worked. Each step in his investigation puts another crack in his naiveté. Lind's search for one answer consumes him, and his livelihood, until his existence is reduced to nothing else.
The cornerstone of the Expansion Era, Void is a standalone novel within the Wroth Worlds Universe.
Lind Michaels hovers between his Thirty-Two status and becoming detritus himself. His partner is dead from a freak accident, leaving Lind alone and stranded between planets. Lind can't imagine living, much less working, in his emotional state. But when his superiors assign him to rubber-stamp an apparent suicide, his hope for distraction turns to obsession. One body floating in space leads to many more. With each corpse, the conflict between Lind's depression and his rage fling him further into a world much darker than his own.
Without a partner, and without the guidance of The Contract, he strays far from his established path. Years spent among desperate colonists and greedy corporations convinced Lind he understood how the Solar System worked. Each step in his investigation puts another crack in his naiveté. Lind's search for one answer consumes him, and his livelihood, until his existence is reduced to nothing else.
The cornerstone of the Expansion Era, Void is a standalone novel within the Wroth Worlds Universe.