Description

Series: Book 1 in the Earth's Last Gambit series

Rating: ****

Tags: EN-SciFi, Lang:en

Summary

It's not often you get a second chance… too bad it came when Earth is on its last one!

After years of service to NASA, British astronaut Jack Kildare, loses his job in disgrace. Not known to be a man to demonstrate sympathy for weakness, Jack finds little enjoyment in his demotion to a private aerospace startup. But when an anomalous water plume is detected on Europa, Earth’s space agencies mount a gigantic cooperative effort to design and build a manned mission to Jupiter.

Determined to make the cut, Jack fights tooth and nail to prove his worth to be a part of this historic mission. But when his brilliant inventor friend is murdered and their technology stolen, Jack realizes that the Spirit of Destiny project has a dark underside, populated by ruthless foes who will not balk at murder to seize the alien spaceship for themselves.

Will Jack be able to put aside his own flaws in time to save the project from disaster? Or will Earth have lost its last chance?