A near-future story of exploration and intirgueThe year is 2152. What started as a normal work day for BJ Armstrong (debugging the latest faulty AI), quickly turned to the adventure of a lifetime. Join Armstrong on his all-expenses-paid 30-day cruise through the solar system on board the maiden voyage of the latest pleasure ship (complete with a beauty pageant and scientific symposium), as he tries to unravel an assassination plot and foil the biggest heist in history. The only question that remains, will BJ get the girl?"Sci-Fi like I grew up on: a near-future tale of solar-system-wide intrigue, done in the style of Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke."-- Assaph Mehr, author of the award-winning author of Murder In Absentia"This is very Kim Stanley Robinson-esque - very good!"-- Jonathan Maas, award-winning author of Flare"An inspiring journey in the future of human space travel."-- Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli author of the Red Desert series

Charlie Gavin was abducted as a baby. He didn't know who he was or where he came from. His mission was to find himself. And when he did, he decided to spend his life finding other lost souls by opening the Be Kindly Missing Persons Bureau.Martha Walters, his assistant, has had her fifteen minutes of almost fame and failed. Now, dealing with her guilt and pain, she lives with her mum and dotes on her young daughter. Charlie appears to be a man who is a loser and dreamer, but, hey, his office is near her house, she can lie in of a morning, take her kid to school and the work isn't too heart-breaking. Or is it . . . ?

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