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Publisher: Tom Ball
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Moon is a graveyard. And the United States is holding the shovel.
The year is 2029. When China's Chang'e-8 rover touches down at the Sea of Tranquility, the mission is supposed to be a triumph. Instead, it captures a terrifying void: no lander, no flag, and no footprints. The greatest achievement in American history was faked-and China has the 8K proof.
Leo Vance was NASA's best visual forensicist until he saw a shadow that didn't belong. Disgraced and exiled to a Mojave trailer, he thought he was done with the Moon. But when a ruthless Mexican cartel intercepts a secret Chinese return capsule, Leo is kidnapped for a specialized mission: verify the footage that could bankrupt a superpower.
The Cartel isn't just moving drugs anymore. They've become the shadow carriers for the Lunar Far Side, smuggling an alien isotope-Isotope-X-into the global market. While the world's elite fight for clean energy, the Cartel is laundering moon rocks into Earth's silver mines, holding a dead-man's switch over Washington's head.
Now, with the U.S. Space Force launching a desperate redaction mission to plant evidence on the lunar surface, Leo finds himself on a dark-launch shuttle headed for the vacuum. In a three-way war between the CIA, Beijing, and a global crime empire, Leo must decide: protect a sixty-year-old lie that keeps the world stable, or broadcast a truth that will light the dark side-and burn everything down.
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