The Scorpion Game
A science fiction mystery thriller
2011 Quarter Finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award *
"This is lovely, dark, psychedelic science fiction that will take you somewhere completely unforgettable."
- Marissa Vu, editor of the Nat Geo Science Book and SG
In 2458, on a continent sized starship with its own atmosphere and an entire civilization churning inside, the poor live in rotting organic cities and the rich live in massive orbital mansions drifting in the clouds. When a hooker plunges from the sixty-sixth floor of an opulent nightclub and a senator is found dead in his room, the police call on Lieutenant Durante Hoskin to solve what swiftly becomes a string of murders of the rich and powerful. Now Hoskin must stop a vicious and brilliant serial killer, who's executing the elite, erasing their backup memories and exposing their lives to an angry public, before his society explodes in open class war.
* Under the working title 'Slow Moon Strangle'
Contains mature content and themes. Not YA.
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