Earth was stagnating from a lack of resources, from corrupt governments
that stayed in power by keeping their people in ignorance and poverty, and by
the established power structures that stifled the creative technologies that
could solve the planet’s problems. But the governments and power
structures didn’t yet control space, where bold new techniques could
freely be applied and the vast resources of the solar system could be utilized
by such courageous men and women as:
* Aneas MacKenzie—he had
believed in the man he had helped to reach the office of the presidency of the
United States, and had tirelessly rooted out corruption wherever he found it,
until the trail led straight back to the White House. After that, no place on
Earth was safe for him.
* Laurie Jo Hansen—she controlled a
multi-national corporation more powerful than many governments. Unlike those
governments, she wanted to see Earth’s problems solved and reaching the
high frontier was the only way to do that.
* Kevin Senecal—he had
made the mistake of fighting back against a juvenile gang, and accidentally
killing one of them while escaping. Both the gang and the law were after him,
and on all of Earth there was no place to hide.
* Ellen
MacMillan—a young employee of the Hansen Corporation who fascinated Kevin,
she was on a secret mission, and the biggest secret was her real name.
- ISBN10 1416555633
- ISBN13 9781416555636
- Publish Date 14 August 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 November 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English