Aphelion (NARC Book 4)

Jarrat and Stone are back, and if the Scorpio assignment looked tough, this one is the challenge of a career. Here is the NARC novel that was eagerly anticipated ... second-guessed ... demanded! ... since SCORPIO launched.

All roads lead to the homeworlds. The Scorpio data-trail ... the Michiko dossier ... it's all pointing in one direction, and Jarrat and Stone can only follow it to Earth. Mars. They find themselves in the timeless cities of ancient worlds, which have grown dark, wicked. Corrupt. For the outsider €" the stranger, colonial, mutoid €" it's a mean arena that can seem oddly alien, and is undeniably dangerous. For the 'Earther' headed back in, like Stone himself, it's not what one expected, nor a place where one would choose to be.

The action takes the NARC captains to Chicago, Marsport and the incredible skycities of the Jupiter system €" new-old worlds on what was once known as the high frontier. These worlds have become new battlefields, but Death wears the same old face.

Aerosports and Angel packwar €" the launch of a super-carrier €" the death of a friend...

Nothing is as it seems. Very soon Jarrat and Stone learn to trust only those they know and believe only what they see, as they and the key elements of the carrier NARC-Athena bend the rules to breaking-point €" and beyond.