Void

Humanity's idealism barely outlived the first generation to live and work in space. Fortunately, The Contract predicted this loss. The document that launched space colonization also created the Thirty-Twos, "neutral" detectives charged with keeping the various corporate empires intact and the controlling the criminal detritus following the human expansion.Lind Michaels hovers between his Thirty-Two status and becoming detritus himself. His partner is dead from a freak accident,...
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Humanity's idealism barely outlived the first generation to live and work in space. Fortunately, The Contract predicted this loss. The document that launched space colonization also created the Thirty-Twos, "neutral" detectives charged with keeping the various corporate empires intact and the controlling the criminal detritus following the human expansion.Lind Michaels hovers between his Thirty-Two status and becoming detritus himself. His partner is dead from a freak accident, leaving Lind alone and nearly stranded between planets. Lind can't imagine working in his emotional state. But when his superiors assign him to rubber-stamp an apparent suicide, his hope for distraction turns to obsession. One body floating in space leads to many more. With each, the conflict between Lind's depression and his rage fling him further into a world much darker than his own. Without a partner, and without the guidance of The Contract, he strays far from his established path. Lind's search for one simple answer consumes him, and his livelihood, until his existence is reduced to nothing else.The cornerstone of the Expansion Era, Void is a standalone novel within the Wroth Worlds Universe.