Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster. He's a gangster with heart, sure, but Sasha sticks his neck out for no man. That's how you stay alive in Crack City, a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise unlivable planet Peezgtaan. Alive only—because if you're human, you don't prosper, at least not for long. Sasha is a second generation City native. His parents came to this rock figuring to make it big, only to find that they'd been recruited as an indentured labor force for alien overlords known as the Varoki.
Now a pair of rich young Varoki under the care of a beautiful human nanny are fleeing Peezgtaan, and Sasha is recruited to help. He'd prefer to rather leave the little alien lordlings to their fate, but certain considerations—such as Sasha's own imminent demise if he remains—make it beneficial for him to take on the job.
Sasha discovers his simple choice has thrust him in the midst of a political battle that could remake the galactic balance of power and save humanity from slow death by servitude. Now all he has to do is survive and keep his charges alive on a hostile planet undergoing its own revolution.
But it's the galaxy that had better watch out. For now the toughest thug in Crack City has gotten his first taste of real freedom. He likes it, and he wants more.
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SuperiorGreat characters, great plot, great universe. I'm sad it took me this long to discover Mr. Chadwick, but glad it because now I can buy everything else he's written and binge read. I suggest you do the same.
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Very good"Of course,what goes along with that is that the people who have the sort of delicate egos and fragile self-images which make them yearn to be hailed as great leaders naturally spend a lot of their lives drumming up business by trying to make people afraid". Published in 2013 before Trump started his run.
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Product ReviewOne of those novels where you don't want to put it down and go to bed because you just have to know what happens next.
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Product ReviewGood plot, well fleshed characters.
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Product ReviewGreat read. From the first few pages it reads like Chandler-in-spaaaace, and it is, but it neatly avoids the pitfalls that usually plague SF noir. Hard-boiled without being brutal, intelligent without falling in love with its own cleverness. Looking forward to more from this author!
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Product Reviewawsome characters & universe etc
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