hardcover, 400 pages

Published April 2, 2019 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-0-7564-1510-5
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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. Hell slip in, decode the ships 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 Gilgers 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 …

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