Spillthrough

Brad Conally is alone in the crippled SS Fleury, fighting to keep a battered cargo ship alive in the deadly silence of deep hyperspace. Every groan of metal, flicker of failing systems, and drifting crate lost through the hull pushes him closer to spillthrough, where one wrong move could tear ship and crew apart. Then the rival Cluster Queen appears, and its captain, Altman, offers rescue with one hand while reaching for Brad's cargo with the other. As sabotage, a sabotaged reactor, and a dead transmitter hint that the disaster may be deliberate, Brad must choose between pride and survival. Injured, exhausted, and running out of power, he races to recover the remaining cargo, expose piracy, and outwit a man willing to turn a salvage dispute into murder. When Altman docks too close for comfort, Brad prepares a brutal counterstrike: vent the Fleury's air and trap the intruder in a vacuum. In this hard-edged science fiction thriller, survival depends on nerve, calculation, and the willingness to gamble everything before hyperspace claims them both. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.