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Tartarus Gate

The Collapse Series, Book 1

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By: Matthew P. Gilbert
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
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Summary

The Empire is dead!

And Captain Josiah Bleys, smuggler and charmer though he may be, is likely to soon follow unless he is willing to at least pretend to be something he loathes: a hero. His "pal" Chief Ragnar Kane, one of the Emperor's finest warriors, likewise harbors no aspirations toward gallantry, just increasing his kill count.

Fate, however, has other plans. The mighty galaxy-spanning Terran Empire is mortally wounded, brought to its knees by a terrifying intelligent plague from hyperspace. The core worlds are mass graves, and the government lies in ruins. Outlying colonies, suddenly isolated and without support, are on their own.

Luck (the bad kind) has both men stuck on the icy mining facility on Cerberus, an installation that won't last long without resupply. Bleys and Kane must mount a daring raid on a neighboring planet to retrieve a legendary scientist in the hopes that he can reconnect them to civilization, or they and everyone else at their frozen outpost are doomed.

The trouble is that the scientist isn't exactly willing, nor is he exactly . . . alive.

©2021 Matthew P. Gilbert (P)2022 Tantor Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera
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Why why is it so many Audible books have some sneaky religious stuff hidden in them? Usually doesn’t expose itself to halfway through a book etc. Really would hope for humanity that these characters living far into the future from now would’ve given up on all religions as ridiculous ,patriarchal , oppressive, discriminative and basically a blight upon humanity. Anyway other than that I really enjoyed the story just started the second book and found the first character a captain was an orthodox Jew. The rest of the crew were Mormons and a whole bunch of Christians flitting around all of them bad bad bad storytelling please. I asked the author. Get rid of any religious nonsense in your next books.

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