Space Opera
meets Horse Opera in this fast-paced adventure story featuring
the Space Command Intelligence undercover team headed by Trader
Vyx. The team, introduced in Book 4 of the A Galaxy Unknown
series, and with small roles in subsequent books, is now
featured in their own story as this AGU: SCI series kicks
off. This story is a mix of low-tech and high-tech as shootouts
in saloons and city streets vie with spaceship chases and space
battles to dominate the pages of this book.
Space
Command Intelligence operates to the full width and breadth of
Galactic Alliance space— and sometimes beyond. Intelligence
gathering is a dangerous profession, and most agents operate
alone, or with a single partner, but there are exceptions.
Trader Vyx, originally a lone field agent, was saddled with two
information gatherers when he left the Gollasko Colony, but
mutual bonds of respect soon grew between the three men. When
two female operatives were rescued from Tsgardi slavers by Vyx,
Byers, and Nelligen, SCI temporarily assigned the women to Vyx's
team. Now, years later, the team is still together, and
operating as one of the most effective groups in
SCI.
With the
defeat of the Uthlaro Dominion, their former territory has
fallen into anarchy. Space Command doesn't have adequate
resources to bring the region under control while facing other
enemies on multiple fronts in Regions One and Two, so SCI agents
have been sent in to do what they can.
Trader Vyx
and his team are on the planet Bleadalto, two hundred
light-years from Uthlarigasset. Their mission is to assess the
situation there and learn everything they can about the slavery
problem, but the once out-of-control-violence situation on
Gollasko seems like a tea social compared to everyday life
on Bleadalto. Within hours of arriving on the planet, Vyx is
forced into a gunfight with a Brotherhood thug. The large crime
organization is not pleased.
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I'm happy
to announce that the ebook version of The Star Brotherhood, first
story in the AGU: SCI series, will be available on or after
January 10th, 2014. Since neither Amazon nor Barnes & Noble allow
small publishers to upload books with a future release date, I
will have to wait until the tenth to send them my new book. The book
has already been sent to Kobo and the iTunes store and will be available
at one minute past midnight, local time, in all their stores. The print
version is currently available from North American and European
Amazon outlets.