On the run, our heroes face a new and deadly alien threat. Alice Keller just wanted to belong… Fleeing from every power in the quadrant, not to mention bounty hunters, the crew of the Junkyard Dog hunkers down on Ionia—a pleasure planet where you can buy your favorite sin with enough credits. But when the local crime boss discovers that Alice, the most-wanted woman in the galaxy, is hiding right under his nose, all bets are off. On the colony asteroid of New Nassau, Eva Park finds herself caught between a feuding father and daughter, each with their own pirate faction determined to chart the future for all. Under lockdown by the occupying 214th Drop Marines commanded by Bathsheba Toma, a civil war threatens to explode when an unexpected death throws New Nassau into chaos. And humanity itself faces its greatest existential threat the Skane, a soulless, animalistic alien species without conscience or compassion, determined to purge mankind from existence. Methodical. Merciless. Indiscriminate. That’s what the Skane are…. The Expanse meets Star Trek in Book 3 of this Military Science Fiction epic from award-winning author Chris Pourteau. How many times can we forget the lessons of history… before history decides to forget us?
Author
Chris Pourteau is the bestselling author of the sci-fi thriller novels of the SynCorp Saga (co-authored with David Bruns), the post-apocalyptic Serenity Strain novels, and the military sci-fi collection Tales of B-Company. His first novel, Shadows Burned In, earned the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction. The Lazarus Protocol, the first novel in the SynCorp Saga, placed in the Top Ten in Read Freely's 2018 50 Best Indie Book of the Year contest; it was the highest-rated Sci-Fi novel in the contest. He’s also edited and curated bestselling short story collections including the two animal-centric collections Tails of the Apocalypse and Tails of Dystopia (with Samuel Peralta), as well as Bridge Across the Stars, a collection of Sci-Fi stories from indie and traditionally published authors published by Sci-Fi Bridge, which Chris co-founded. His dayjob is editor-in-chief for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which researches cutting-edge technologies across the transportation spectrum. Chris Pourteau is the bestselling author of the sci-fi thriller novels of the SynCorp Saga (co-authored with David Bruns), the post-apocalyptic Serenity Strain novels, and the military sci-fi collection Tales of B-Company. His first novel, Shadows Burned In, earned the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction. The Lazarus Protocol, the first novel in the SynCorp Saga, placed in the Top Ten in Read Freely's 2018 50 Best Indie Book of the Year contest; it was the highest-rated Sci-Fi novel in the contest. He’s also edited and curated bestselling short story collections including the two animal-centric collections Tails of the Apocalypse and Tails of Dystopia (with Samuel Peralta), as well as Bridge Across the Stars, a collection of Sci-Fi stories from indie and traditionally published authors published by Sci-Fi Bridge, which Chris co-founded. His dayjob is editor-in-chief for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which researches cutting-edge technologies across the transportation spectrum. When he’s not writing, editing, or working the dayjob, Chris loves exercising regularly, watching shows like Star Trek and Stranger Things, and reading his favorite authors. Those include Bernard Cornwell, Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Max Collins. He lives in Texas with his wife, son, and two dogs. (He’s a HUGE dog person, by the way.) Find out more about Chris and his writing through his newsletter. Sign up and get free stuff at https://chrispourteau.com/newsletter.
