Breach of Containment: A Central Corps Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Katharine Mangold
- 14 h 33 min
- HarperAudio
- 2017-10-17
Summary:
A reluctant hero must prevent war in space and on Earth in this fast-paced military technology fiction thriller from the writer of The Chilly Between and Remnants of Trust-a riviting hybrid merging the gritty, high-octane thrills of Wayne S. A. Corey and the sociopolitical theatre of Ann Leckie.
Space is full of the unknown . most of it prepared to kill you.
When hostilities between factions threaten to explode right into a taking pictures war within the moon of Yakutsk, the two major galactic military powers, approximately Breach of Containment: A Central Corps Novel Central Corps and PSI, send boats to defuse the situation. But when a unusual artifact is uncovered, events are set in place that threaten the complete colonized galaxy-including previous Central Corps Commander Elena Shaw.
Today an engineer on a commercial delivery vessel, Elena discovers herself drawn in to the conflict when she picks up the artifact about Yakutsk-and investigation from it uncovers ties to the massive, corrupt corporation Ellis Systems, whom she’s opposed before. Her safety is further compromised by her former ties to Central Corps-Elena can’t different herself from her past lifestyle and her aged ship, the CCSS Galileo.
Before Elena can pursue the artifact’s purpose further, disaster strikes: all communication with the First Sector-including Earth-is lost. The reason becomes obvious when news gets to Elena of a battle fleet, objective on destruction, quickly approaching Earth. And with communications at sublight levels, there is absolutely no way to warn the planet in time.
Equipped with crucial intel from a shadowy source and the strange artifact, Elena could be the only person who can prevent the fleet, and Ellis, and conserve Earth. But for this mission there will be no second chances-and no return.
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