Freelancers of Neptune: Volume 1

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All he wanted was a simple job to make ends meet. What he got was a mysterious cat girl, a shot at a hoard of treasure, and a whole lot of trouble.

The Solar System aint what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturns rings are gone, Mercury is a gas giant, and Earth is remembered only as a unit of measure. Nearly godlike AIs reshaped the Solar System in eons past, but they too are now nothing more than a fading memory.

Captain Nathaniel Kade cares for none of that. Hes but a simple freelancer from the orbital ring of Neptune, struggling to make ends meet and to keep his understaffed spaceship from falling apart. All he wants is a decent, uneventful job to help put his finances back in order.

What he receives instead is Vessani SKaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who triedand failedto steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessanis in over her head and is clearly more trouble than shes worth, but she also has a lead on what may be the greatest treasure trove of lost technology the Solar System has ever seen.

Nathan pulls her butt out of the fire, and together they begin to assemble a team to seek out this long-lost bounty. But other interested parties have their eyes on the same prize; the Jovian Everlife has dispatched a fleet of warships with one of their elite, many-bodied agents in command, and hed like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

Reviews

Praise forThe Dyson File:

InThe Dyson File, the far-future SF elements are (thank goodness) far more than window-dressing. Instead, they permeate the investigation on every level, creating an increasingly complex and very satisfying police procedural. The novel works both as a standalone and as part of the larger series. Jane Lindskold, author ofLibrary of the Sapphire Wind

The Dyson Fileis a fun and engaging science fiction mystery, but it was the wild moments of the main characters highly relatable lives that made me laugh out loud so many times while reading this delightful book! Joelle Presby, author ofThe Dabare Snake Launcher

Jacob HolosThe Dyson Fileblends a sci-fi backdrop with a detective story when a corporate venture comes to a halt from the apparent suicide of its lead engineer. A detective and a special agent newly returning to active duty find the diagnosis of suicide masks a deeper war that embroils them in a mystery and cultural exploration. Special interests come to light in a dark tale of mind-hacking adventure and strange encounters that will keep readers thoroughly immersed. Midwest Book Review

PraiseforThe Janus File:

The highlights of this familiar procedural story are the growing partnership between the leads, moments of humor amid the expected culture clashes, and the exploration of the authors well-realized far-future world. Its pure entertainment . . .Publishers Weekly

PraiseforThe Valkyrie Protocol:

Theres a whole genre of movies and TV shows dealing with the mind-bending aspects of time travel and alternate universes, fromLooperand theTerminatorfranchise toLegends of TomorrowandDoctor Who. If you know someone who enjoys that sort of tale, heres a book for them. Analog

Praise forThe Gordian Protocol:

Tom Clancy-esque exposition of technical details . . . absurd humor and bloody action. Echoes of Robert Heinlein... lots of exploding temporal spaceships and bodies . . . action-packed. Booklist

[A] fun and thrilling standalone from Weber and Holo . . . Time travel enthusiasts will enjoy the moral dilemmas, nonstop action, and crisp writing. Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Jacob Holo is a former-Ohioan, former-Michigander living in sunny South Carolina. He has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents bought that new IBM 286 desktop, and over the years, those powers combined to push him to the next level of nerddom: a sci-fi author who designs intricate worlds and tech systems...and promptly blows them up in a string of nonstop action.

He is the author of over fifteen books, including the best-selling Gordian Division series (with David Weber), Time Reavers (a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book); The Wizards Way (with H.P. Holo), and Monster Punk Horizon: Excess (with H.P. Holo).