Death, both natural and murderous, is frequent and the police rarely bother to investigate. When an huge generation ship on it's way too Paradise instead is blown off track to a planet covered in lethal acid cloud, with no hope of ever going home, the colonists manage to build a home on and in the peaks of five mountains which rise above the cloud. book, with a free download available through the Audible Plus programme. This is an Audible Original, a dark detective S.F.

'Lots of people die in Five Points every day.' What he finds could threaten the colony’s very existence. So when a Special Magistrate is found dissolving in a protein vat, it barely registers - until DCI Lutero Cade, the last honest cop in Five Points, catches the case. With powerful corporations ruling the surface domes and criminal syndicates running the caverns below, murder is just the cost of doing business. Landing on the only five mountain peaks tall enough to rise above the lethal acid clouds, the settlers carved a civilization from the rock.Ī hundred years later, Five Points has grown into a city of corruption and violence.

A thousand light years from Earth, with no way home and no way to call for help, the colonists’ only hope for survival was the one barely habitable planet in range, a nightmare world they named Croatoan. When the biggest colony ship in human history was sent to settle a paradise world, an accident hurtled it deep into uncharted space. A lost colony planet, a perplexing murder, and a dogged homicide cop in this Audible Original story from best-selling author Larry Correia.

Gun Runner by Larry Correia