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The Vacuum of Authority

The Vacuum of Authority

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: The Aurigan Conflict

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798188268039
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the frontier world of Angle's Reach, order is everything-until it isn't.

When Chancellor Horace Blenning is found dead, his physicians insist the cause was natural. Everyone else quietly disagrees. Eight respectable witnesses step forward, each certain of what they saw, each contradicting the others with impeccable confidence.

The result is not clarity.

Into this delicate situation arrive Cedric Pritchard, a retired accounts manager with a devotion to proper filing systems, and Lionel Welles, a former procurement specialist whose missing golf clubs present what he considers a matter of urgent public importance. Neither man is qualified to investigate a political mystery. Both proceed anyway.

As rival factions maneuver for control of a lucrative asteroid mining operation, evidence shifts, statements evolve, and certainty becomes increasingly elusive. Yet in a world determined to maintain appearances, the truth may be less important than the restoration of order.

And sometimes, the most qualified leader is simply the one who shows up on time, keeps accurate records, and repairs what others overlook.

A dryly humorous, mid-century-style mystery of politics, procedure, and polite chaos.

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