The Freeland Vendetta

<p><strong>One man can make-or break-Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.</strong></p><p></p><p>On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland an Earth operative is murdered. Stone's mission: journey through an artificial wormhole to the planet. Find the perpetrators. And terminate them.</p><p></p><p>Going undercover with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and genetic markers tweaked inside his cells Stone expects an easy mission.</p><p></p><p>But on encountering shadowy powerful men and dangerous women Stone discovers more than a plot that killed a fellow operative. A conspiracy plans a powerful blow against Earth's control of the planet.</p><p></p><p>A blow that will kill tens of thousands of colonists.</p><p></p><p>A blow supported by treacherous forces inside the government of Earth.</p><p></p><p>Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock in this the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.</p><p></p><p><em>Previously published as The Progress of Mankind.</em></p><p></p>