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. 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.