Blackbox Protocol

<p>Being a PI in the high-tech magical city of Manzala requires more than street-smarts. </p><p>Martin Aten makes do with a lifetime of experience in software engineering.  Accompanied by the voice of his wife Jean and his memories of days gone by he lives each life day-to-day just scraping through.</p><p>But every once in a while a job comes along that’s bigger than it looks.  And when the city’s most successful techno-dwarf hires Martin to recover a stolen prized personal possession—the job already looks massive.</p><p>From the dingy back-streets of Manzala to the planets beyond this case is going to take Martin farther than any other case before. The hunt for a stolen item brings him new friends new enemies and—if he’s very very lucky—the chance to save Manzala from a danger it doesn’t know is descending on it. </p><p>Regardless he knows he’s not returning to Manzala the same man who left it.</p>