Rosetta

Tony Palmero has a problem. The future just isn’t what it used to be. He has to steal the key to the mysterious language of the long-dead Galactic race or spend the rest of his life laboring on a backwater sugar plantation. In Tony’s path are interplanetary policorps, genetically-modified assassins, colonial revolutionaries, wickedly fast alien carnivores, and a fanatical mutant criminal megalomaniac he's already killed once. Looks like it’s just going to be another one of those weeks. Enough for anyone’s plate, but he also decides to rescue a savant slave girl and her dying pet angel. Now Tony must race against the clock to navigate the boiling political landscape of a colony world where the untold wealth of the few and the potential destruction of millions is ready to explode into an all-out interplanetary war. Can he even stay alive long enough to succeed? That’s the problem. Rosetta is complex, gritty cyberpunk — a must for fans of intelligent, action-packed science fiction.