If you like fast-paced stories with secrets, surprises, double-crosses, competent heroes, solid science, and a little humor, then you’ll love SCIFI MINUS: A Murder Mystery on Mars, the stand-alone prequel to The Robot Protocols.
One stubborn cop. A rookie he can’t trust. And the first murder on the surface of Mars.
When Max finds a dead man in an impossible pose on the summit of Olympus Mons—an extinct volcano—he knows it’s murder. The clues are all there. But his boss wants to call it an accident.
Max won’t stop, but before he can make any progress, he’s saddled with a rookie who’s about as much use as a pigeon in a spacesuit. As he follows the clues through the streets and alleyways of Olympus City, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens everyone.
The city is built inside the volcano, and its inhabitants depend on a fragile network of engineering systems for survival. Air, power, water, food. Everything must work perfectly if they are to keep living. Now someone is trying to upset that delicate balance and cause a catastrophe—unless Max can stop them first.
But when he and the rookie are almost boiled alive, he realizes this is bigger than a single killing. Can Max learn to trust the people at his side and solve the first murder on the surface? Or will the city run out of air before he finds the truth?
