The Reaches
Publisher: Ansuz Productions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: published for the Kindle only
Format: eBook (Kindle)
Description: In one hundred and seventy five years, on the planet Mars, humanity will live in a world of desperation. Mars is a slum of a colony, now a hundred years old, that has become the staging point for humanity's endless expansion into the regions of the outer solar system known as "the Reaches". Now, in this cauldron of discontent and peril, a serial killer has appeared. One who seems to be able to outguess the police . . . a terrifying trick in the oppressive Marscolony of the future. To deal with this man Marscolony will call on their top investigator, Justin Abelard. Abelard is a veteran of duty in the Reaches, a man shattered by his past, and a man who consistently manages to know things that he shouldn't. Now he will face a horror even he could never imagine, a monster in human form, possessing a terrible power that will force Abelard to confront his demons. Partnered reluctantly with a deputy UN Marshal, Abelard will have no choice but to stop a madman who threatens to bring Marscolony to its knees.