Predestination

Joss Kyle is a one-time National Security Advisor who barely escaped Washington D.C. with his skin intact. For three years he's lived by his wits and the fall of the cards in the criminal underworld of South America, but jumping planet for Space Station Sidon means walking into a ambush more dangerous than any he's yet faced:A man named Alex Hart wants to play cards with him.Their meeting will fling Joss into a game playing for highest stakes around: control of the entire solar system....
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Joss Kyle is a one-time National Security Advisor who barely escaped Washington D.C. with his skin intact. For three years he's lived by his wits and the fall of the cards in the criminal underworld of South America, but jumping planet for Space Station Sidon means walking into a ambush more dangerous than any he's yet faced:A man named Alex Hart wants to play cards with him.Their meeting will fling Joss into a game playing for highest stakes around: control of the entire solar system. Chased by a revolutionary leader, agents of a corrupt senator, and an underworld boss known only as The Green Lady, he quickly discovers that in the looking-glass world above the gravity well, survival, like poker, is just another sport. And in this contest, it isn't whether you win or lose, it's how you rig the game.