Titanborn

May 2, 2016
A solar system–spanning adventure of freedom fighters and corporate espionage delights readers in Bruno’s fully realized world. In 2334, New London is celebrating the 300th Meteor Day, the anniversary of a meteorite striking Earth and nearly wiping out humankind. When a bomb explodes, 30-year veteran bounty hunter Malcolm Graves goes after those responsible. The suspects are a group of Titanborn descended from colonists who settled Saturn’s moon Titan. The Titanborn are being marginalized as immigrants from Earth take their homes and jobs. Graves works for Pervenio Corp.; Pervenio and competitor Venta Co. control the mining industries of the entire Sol solar system. Graves and his new partner, Zhaff, follow the trail of clues to Old Russia and then to frozen Titan. Helping and hindering them are Venta bounty hunter Trevor Cross; information broker Mazrah, who’s Graves’ old flame; and Luxarn Pervenio, the richest man in the solar system. Bruno (The Circuit) expertly weaves action, capitalism, smuggling, fragile alliances, and revolution around the hard choices of a life-worn man who regrets always following orders.

April 15, 2016
A futuristic thriller set in a solar system teetering on the brink of revolution. Malcom Graves is a collector for Pervenio, one of the handful of powerful corporations that runs the solar system. Three hundred years ago, a meteorite nearly destroyed life on Earth, and a spaceship carried a few thousand people to Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. The two civilizations developed separately for centuries, but now, Earthers returning to Saturn's Ring have taken Ringers' jobs and brought in diseases the Ringers' immune systems can't handle. Malcom's job is to put down strikes, chase criminals, and generally keep order among the restless outworlders. After a job on a mining asteroid goes bad, Malcom is on a mandatory vacation just in time for M-Day, the anniversary of the day the meteorite hit--and just in time to be on the scene when a bomb hits the celebrations in New London. Soon, Malcom is back on the clock, unraveling a plot that turns out to be much bigger than just one bomb. And he's saddled with a new partner, Zhaff, the product of the top-secret Cogent Initiative, who's as efficient, and as humorless, as an android. The stakes aren't fully clear until midway through the book, which undermines the suspense. But Malcom is a classic hard-bitten hero, Zhaff is an intriguing presence, and the plot moves along briskly. This solar-system-spanning mystery will scratch the genre itch.

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