MAPMAKERS BOOK SIX

The Mine

Summary

Humanity has pushed permanent industry far beyond Earth. Private companies mine asteroids, national spacecraft cross deep space, and lunar ports connect a growing off-world economy.

The law has not kept up.

When a returned foreman releases evidence from a private asteroid installation known simply as the Mine, the images are impossible to dismiss: exhausted workers, medical neglect, allegations of slavery, and a private operation beyond the practical reach of any government. The evidence is on Earth.

The Mine is not.

At Shackleton Station, Major Jake Valen commands an eight-officer multinational Marine security detachment created to work across the seams of national authority. On Earth, prosecutors, diplomats, engineers, and military planners confront a problem no existing institution was designed to solve: what happens when a crime occurs where no nation can reach it alone?

The Mine, the sixth novel in the Mapmakers series, is a geopolitical science-fiction thriller about law, human rights, technology, and the limits of national power as humanity becomes a spacefaring civilization.