The Z Team trilogy comes to an end in the relentless and intriguing Ghosts of the Void, where the crew must discover the truth behind a mysteriously destroyed planet. For fans of John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, Mass Effect, and the Fifth Element.
Channels—superluminal tunnels through space-time—connect the systems of the Commonwealth. Little is known about these phenomena, other than only one has collapsed—the Sol channel, eighty-two years ago, severing Earth from the galactic community.
Captain Dash Anderton and his freighter crew have escaped their share of mutineers, cultists, corrupt security, and power-mad officials. Now, SecForce—the galaxy’s premier security conglomerate—has forced the crew on a dangerous covert mission to the wilds of space. Their infiltrate a station run by gangsters to find a Holy Church bishop. Wanted at the highest levels of power in the Human Coalition, he holds the secrets of the channel network and the truth about the destruction of the planet Auturia.
SecForce officer Amanda Severion, mission commander and the bishop’s daughter, leads the mission. Scapegoated for a deadly bombing, she seeks to clear her name and discover the dark truth about the only family she ever knew. As if the op wasn’t hard enough, she holds a grudge against Dash and her commando teammates, who may have ulterior motives of their own.
With the Commonwealth on the brink of dissolution, the stakes have never been higher, as secrets are revealed and conspiracies brought to the light in the explosive conclusion to The Z Team trilogy.
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Chris DeSantis grew up in the 80’s with a love for stories in all mediums, science fiction in particular. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering. Since then, he worked as a software engineer on a variety of products; from finite element analysis simulators, to DoD contractor on counter-WMD platforms, and educational software. His debut novel The Z Team is forthcoming in November 2021.
He can be found on social media @chris_desantis_author.