ASIN: B01DESRHI2
Publisher: J Peter Charters
Pages: 424
There's been many a young man who's run away to a life of adventure and piracy, but what if you're born into it and hate it? Where do you run away to without ending up in a jail cell?On the edge of the Empire of Man, Conner grows up in a hidden pirate stronghold, doing his best to survive in an environment designed to corrupt even basically decent people like him. At the core of the empire, on Capitol itself, Stuart Cameron spends his time as a glorified taxi driver, shuttling people from one station dock to another and he's slowly going mad from the boredom. Events convince Stuart to take part in an expedition to the frontier. When the transport is attacked by the pirates, Conner sees the opportunity he's been waiting for - and the two young men from opposite ends of experience and society find their destinies converging.Behind them an even bigger convergence of empires is slowly ...
