Stealing Light

Product Description

For a hundred & fifty thousand years the alien Shoal have been hiding a terrible secret behind a facade of power. In the twenty-fifth century they dominate the galaxy & control all trade & exploration possessing the secret of faster-than-light travel. Mankind has established just a handful of interstellar colonies; their freedom & knowledge of the galaxy limited by the Shoal's punitive colonial charter. Dakota Merrick is a machine-head pilot on the run from one of the Consortium's most powerful criminals. Desperate for escape she contracts to ferry an expert team to a remote star system. Her passengers hope to scavenge a functioning FTL-drive from a derelict starship -- rumoured to pre date the Shoal. But they'll expose an ancient genocide the Shoal will do anything to hide. & Dakota will be forced to face demons from her own military past. ' Packed with massive concepts & dark psychological twists.. .seriously entertaining' SFX ' Fast confident daring skilful.. .A big book in scope & imagination' Vector The depth & scale of a writer coming into his own' Sci-Fi-London.com"