Jack Jackson “ just SJax to his friends, if he had any “ finds his life turned upside-down when a small, domed neighborhood on the fourth planet orbiting Barnard "s Star loses life support on his watch. Just a lowly operator, Jax is accused of mass homicide, arrested, and faced with a mound of impossible evidence against him. His only ally is Stanford Runstom, an officer of Modern Policing and Peacekeeping. Runstom is a detective at heart, passed over for promotion time and time again, just waiting for a chance to blow open a meaningful case and make something of his career and his life, even if it means risking everything.Together, the two will try to exonerate Jax by finding the real killer, still at large and protected by layer upon layer of obscurity. They "ll face off against space gangs, greedy politicians, and corrupt cops along the road that takes them off the planet Jax has never left before in his life and into the depths of space.
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