Fire With Fire

2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy onEarth’s Moon — a history-changing clandestine project — and

ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan

awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and

is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an

inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. 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. However, arriving

on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he’s

been given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging

his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. In

the end, it takes the broad-based 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. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan

must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive

as a free species is to face the perils directly — and to fight fire with

fire.