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One man can make-or break-Earth's iron grip on its galacticcolonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's topoperative. The newly-rediscovered high-tech colony of Minerva quickly submits toa wormhole linking it to Earth. With a cloud over his career from hisprevious mission, Stone has no choice but to follow orders: spend weekstrapped on the ship towing the wormhole to Minerva. Once there,corroborate reports of the colonists' odd beliefs. Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and nothreat in sight, Stone expects a mission beneath his talents. But then Stone discovers…mehr

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One man can make-or break-Earth's iron grip on its galacticcolonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's topoperative. The newly-rediscovered high-tech colony of Minerva quickly submits toa wormhole linking it to Earth. With a cloud over his career from hisprevious mission, Stone has no choice but to follow orders: spend weekstrapped on the ship towing the wormhole to Minerva. Once there,corroborate reports of the colonists' odd beliefs. Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and nothreat in sight, Stone expects a mission beneath his talents. But then Stone discovers far more than odd beliefs. A pervasive cultdominates the colony. Its thugs threaten his body. Its priests threatenhis spirit. Fighting for his life-and soul-he comes face to face with aterrifying conspiracy. By surrendering, Minerva's leaders pose the greatest threat ever toEarth's hegemony. Join Stone in his most harrowing mission yet, facing a world ofdangerous rebels in this, the third adventure in his complete four-novelseries.
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Raymund Eich is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose middle American upbringing is a launchpad for journeys to the ends of the universe. His most popular works are military science fiction series The Confederated Worlds (novels Take the Shilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard of Lies) and the Stone Chalmers series of science fiction espionage adventures (novels The Progress of Mankind, The Greater Glory of God, To All High Emprise Consecrated, and In Public Convocation Assembled). He has over ten other published book-length works and more than forty published short stories. His short fiction has appeared in Odyssey, Analog, Boundary Shock Quarterly, and the anthology Surviving Tomorrow, and has earned honorable mentions and a semi-finalist award in the Writers of the Future contest.His works are available worldwide in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook editions. After circling the world by age five, he grew up in the Ozark Mountains of southwest Missouri. He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, from Rice University. Though he's no longer a working scientist, hundreds of papers cite his graduate research. In addition to his writing career, he works in patent law, won a national quiz bowl championship, is a husband and father, and agrees with Robert Heinlein that specialization is for insects. He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter. His last name has one syllable and is pronounced "eye-sh." He can be found online at https://raymundeich.com.