The Shattered Stars
Richard S. McEnroeThey were three battered oddities flung together by blind chance.Together in uneasy alliance they were forced to challenge the most powerful forces in the galaxy to preserve their freedom – and their very lives.Moses Captain of the star-tramp WILD GOOSE, last of a dying breed of independents, always on the fringes of bankruptcy. Desperation left him with a cargo that could destroy a world.Mitsuko ‘Spooky’ first mate, engineer, crew of the WILD GOOSE, a telepath seeking refuge from the obscene babble of mankind in the silence of space – and slowly learning the killing power of her mutant talent.Deacon Pilot of the WILD GOOSE, a super-soldier, programmed to kill, conditioned into docility, a human time-bomb waiting to explode.Between them tensions that could only build to critical mass...