Agencies

Humanity has made its first steps to colonise the Moon and exploit the resources of the asteroid belt and outer planets. During a surveying mission to find water deposits within craters on the Moon, Aldion and his team discover a covert underground structure. No-one knows who built it or why - except one man. The discovery is the flash-point that triggers the latent hostility between the now-private security agencies of Earth - leading to an escalating series of conflicts. Threaded through these conflicts, Carth must try to get to the structure first to avoid an unthinkable loss. 53,900 words (216 printed pages)