Outward Bound
by By Hogan, James P.
Category: Fiction , Science Fiction , Action & Adventure

Fifteen-year-old Linc Marani is from the wrong side of twenty-second century L.A.'s tracks. Everyone he knows is addicted to dope, booze, and the violence that masquerades as bravado in life on the streets. When a chance at some cold hard cash is offered to him by a slick associate in a fancy Cadillac, Linc jumps at the bait - only to find himself sentenced to a juvenile labor camp when the heist goes sour.Labor camp: To Linc it means an aching, dawn-to-dusk grind - Marine bootcamp-style discipline with no hope of escape or parole. He is about to give up and accept this precisely regimented and miserable future when a mysterious psychologist offers him the chance of a life time. Can Linc overcome one of the worst neighborhoods on Earth by proving his worth on a mission beyond the stars?