Abundance

<p><strong>Asteroid mining promises untold riches for those willing to take the risks... but in the race to gain first-mover advantage <em>the price of failure can be severe</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The crew of the first commercial space mission to retrieve an asteroid for mining purposes has been killed in a catastrophic accident. Washed up ex-astronaut Charles 'Chuck' Sorrel is hired to look into the affairs of Abundance the company behind the mission. He asks a few questions makes a few conclusions and writes some recommendations... but never gets a chance to collect.</p><p><br></p><p>Sorrel's easy-money gig turns sour when rival Chinese asteroid mining company Yangshen is implicated. The discovery triggers an international incident and thrusts an unwilling Sorrel into a trip across the Pacific dinner with Yangshen's CEO confrontations with the Mission Commander's widow Jen and pressure to hurry up and get to the bottom of things. Trapped in a high-level cover up Sorrel must navigate a web of lies and deceit to uncover the truth - and make peace with his past in order to save the future.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Abundance</em></strong> is a cross-genre sci-fi thriller that spans the world and the heavens above... offering a glimpse into the messy near-future world of commercial space exploration and militarization emergent AGI and geopolitical intrigue - where the ground truth is all-too-human and wholly unpredictable.</p>