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The Passenger from Cygnus Gate

The Passenger from Cygnus Gate

Bailey, John

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798189927911
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One passenger does not officially exist.

Senior Systems Compliance Auditor Martin Penrose boards the passenger liner Far Horizon expecting three quiet weeks returning home after an exhausting frontier inspection. His greatest ambition is to finish a few reports, enjoy the ship's library, and avoid becoming involved in anyone else's problems.

Then a freight supervisor dies.

The death is ruled an accident.

Martin isn't convinced.

Cargo appears aboard the ship after the manifests have closed. A passenger asks questions that only an expert should know to ask. Security officers seem interested in the wrong people. Records disagree with reality in ways Martin has spent seventeen years learning never to ignore.

The evidence points toward something impossible:

Someone-or something-is traveling aboard the Far Horizon without officially existing.

As Martin follows discrepancies that refuse to reconcile, he finds himself drawn into a conspiracy stretching from frontier colonies to the highest levels of the Commonwealth government. Every answer creates another question, every document conceals another omission, and every careful deduction places him in greater danger.

Sometimes the most dangerous weapon isn't a gun.

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