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Coles Hydras of War at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Military Spy-Fi Space Opera. Le Carré moral rot meets Fleming glossy spy craft.
One canister. One convoy. One choice that will haunt him long after the shooting stops. Trifon Voles has smuggled worse things across worse places. But somewhere between an order and a conscience, Trifon has thirty seconds and no good options. One weapon. One convoy. No clean choice. A pirate-spy. A stolen weapon. A convoy that might be innocent - or might not be. Trifon Voles has thirty seconds to decide, and no version of the choice lets him walk away clean. Spy-fi with teeth, for readers who like their heroes compromised and their villains half-right. Is the act of survival worth the moral cost of how you survive? In 2345, the void isn't what kills you. The decisions do. Trifon Voles is a man with no country and a passport that no longer exists - a convicted smuggler and former mercenary still haunted by a massacre he caused under orders that made it, technically, legal. When the Ghost Federation's recruiter, the mysterious Mr. Oracle, offers him citizenship in exchange for one mission, Trifon takes the only chance he's been given in years. The job: infiltrate a casino, rig the game, secure the cargo. What he doesn't know is what's in the cargo. The Hydras of War isn't a weapon that kills its targets - it unmakes who they were. When the mission collapses and an Erathian convoy approaches broadcasting images of refugee families, the ship's targeting AI does something no machine is supposed to do: it refuses. No confidence threshold met. No legal authority to fire. No orders. No institution. No one left to blame but Trifon. He's alone in the cockpit with the button and a question no rulebook answers: is he willing to become the monster his new home needs? "Survival isn't about staying clean. It's about choosing your dirt." Perfect for fans of The Expanse, James Bond and military thrillers that don't pretend the right answer is obvious.
Military Spy-Fi Space Opera. Le Carré moral rot meets Fleming glossy spy craft.
One canister. One convoy. One choice that will haunt him long after the shooting stops. Trifon Voles has smuggled worse things across worse places. But somewhere between an order and a conscience, Trifon has thirty seconds and no good options. One weapon. One convoy. No clean choice. A pirate-spy. A stolen weapon. A convoy that might be innocent - or might not be. Trifon Voles has thirty seconds to decide, and no version of the choice lets him walk away clean. Spy-fi with teeth, for readers who like their heroes compromised and their villains half-right. Is the act of survival worth the moral cost of how you survive? In 2345, the void isn't what kills you. The decisions do. Trifon Voles is a man with no country and a passport that no longer exists - a convicted smuggler and former mercenary still haunted by a massacre he caused under orders that made it, technically, legal. When the Ghost Federation's recruiter, the mysterious Mr. Oracle, offers him citizenship in exchange for one mission, Trifon takes the only chance he's been given in years. The job: infiltrate a casino, rig the game, secure the cargo. What he doesn't know is what's in the cargo. The Hydras of War isn't a weapon that kills its targets - it unmakes who they were. When the mission collapses and an Erathian convoy approaches broadcasting images of refugee families, the ship's targeting AI does something no machine is supposed to do: it refuses. No confidence threshold met. No legal authority to fire. No orders. No institution. No one left to blame but Trifon. He's alone in the cockpit with the button and a question no rulebook answers: is he willing to become the monster his new home needs? "Survival isn't about staying clean. It's about choosing your dirt." Perfect for fans of The Expanse, James Bond and military thrillers that don't pretend the right answer is obvious.
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