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Quade! Book III: The Red Desert of Tau Ceti

Quade! Book III: The Red Desert of Tau Ceti

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: The Quade Expeditions, Book 3

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798250040518
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 24 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the frontier of Tau Ceti, survival is earned by sweat, not machines.

Commander Elias Quade takes a routine protection contract for desert settlers on an extrasolar colony. But beneath the red dunes lies something older than humanity-and it is still operational.

The third installment in The Quade Expeditions series delivers a relentless survival thriller set in a hostile extrasolar desert world.

Tau Ceti was supposed to be a new beginning. Instead, it has become a battleground of corporate manipulation, insurgent sabotage, and environmental attrition.

When frontier settlers hire Quade to secure leverage against powerful off-world interests, he expects political tension. He does not expect alien ruins buried beneath the sand-nor the automated defenses that awaken when disturbed.

As sandstorms grind machinery into dust and dehydration becomes a daily threat, Quade and his team uncover a physical alien archive describing something called the Optimization Directives.

The records suggest a civilization that automated everything-labor, resilience, even survival itself.

They did not die in war.

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