To Rule the Universe: A Tale from the Arcady Cluster

by Everett Coles

Gyle Meredon, a contractor for the Purlieu Law Enforcement Agency covering the Arcady Cluster, is travelling on a small trader ship which, sabotaged, crash lands on a backwoods planet; home to many alien species and colonized by humans. The world is a dangerous place. Particularly vicious are the Ttd Voa who seem to consider any other species as fit only for their cooking pots.Guardians, funded by Mephisto Millett, marshal the indigenous denizens through fear and devious weaponry.An entrepreneur in the Galactic style, Millett owns spaceships and worlds, but would never deign to visit them without the most urgent of reasons. A certain type of gold, mountains of the stuff, is one such reason. Meredon is another. Greed and vengeance – always the best of reasons. In this first tale from the Arcady Cluster, is the unstoppable force about to meet the immovable object?To Rule the Universe also includes a discussion guide for book clubs and science fiction conventions.

370 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2017

About the author

David Coles and Jack Everett have been writing f&sf, thrillers, adventures and historical mystery as Everett Coles.