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The Bellerophon Incident
Paperback
Series: The Aurigan Conflict
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a war fought across the stars, the most important battles are the ones no one ever records.
It is Year 17 of the Anglo-Aurigan War. Convoy after convoy is vanishing from Allied supply routes-seven ships at a time, without warning, without wreckage. When intelligence analyst Dorothea Marsh overlays nine impossible loss events on a single star chart, every line points to one place: Bellerophon, a civilian world under Aurigan occupation.
A commando strike would announce exactly what the Admiralty knows. A conventional spy operation has failed six times already. What the mission requires is someone the Aurigans are not looking for-someone stepping into the identity of an enemy officer killed fourteen months ago in a transit accident, whose death was never recorded in Bellerephon's files.
That someone is Nathan Pritchard, a civilian astro-cartographer who has never carried a weapon in his life.
On an occupied world watched over by the meticulous Captain Viktor Stahl-a security officer with an uncanny talent for detecting deception-Nathan must master a dead man's identity, navigate a resistance movement fractured between urgency and caution, and locate an enemy installation capable of erasing entire convoys from space. Alongside him is Eliza Fairchild, a former schoolteacher whose quiet courage has kept the resistance alive through two years of occupation, and who understands that patience and precise timing are weapons as powerful as any fleet.
The window is closing. The convoys keep disappearing. And Stahl is beginning to notice that something about Lieutenant Gregor Weis does not quite add up.
The Bellerophon Incident is a taut, atmospheric thriller in the tradition of classic wartime espionage drama-reimagined among the stars. It is a story about impersonation under pressure, resistance under occupation, and the kind of courage that leaves no monuments behind.
Perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, and the espionage novels of John le Carré-for readers who want their science fiction thrilling, thoughtful, and rooted in timeless questions of loyalty, sacrifice, and the price of freedom.Also from
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