Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar dominance, a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged. In the end, it takes the keen insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he's been given is anything but secret or safe.
Riordan's mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient-enough so to have built a lost civilization. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself.
Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon-a history-making clandestine project-and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles.
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