The Fourth Casket

ISBN: 1450531040

Author: Mears, D T

Condition: New

Deep within the coldly-glowing Curtain Nebula, drifts the Space Control Corps' greatest installation, "Fortress Unicorn." Part port-of-call, part battle station, the "Unicorn" was once home to thousands but has seen its personnel reduced to no more than a skeleton crew since the development of abrain technology-a type of cranial implant that allows a single individual to wield the knowledge of an entire civilization. Surviving the cutbacks and still toiling within Unicorn's cavernous docks are two abrain-equipped contraband dispersal specialists, a quirky, bohemian Rolf Guten and his stoic partner, Virg Markham, whose duties include identifying and sending to auction materials seized by SCC enforcer ships. Yet, as they appraise their greatest find ever-a stolen shipment of priceless sculptures-they are unaware that their very minds have been invaded by a vicious Trojan program. One that will impel them to assist in the most audacious criminal heist in galactic history and set into motion a chain of events that will threaten to rock the Republic to its core.