Jim Proctor

After a SACOM fleet of spaceships fend off an ambush by Xetian spaceships out beyond the asteroid belt, Carl Wilkins’ salvage team is hired by a SACOM department to head out and recover valuable pods and materials from the damaged ships at the ambush site. However, he is unaware that he is heading off with false information and a shady contract, which winds up killing four of his team and sets him up under a false conviction that closes his business and leaves him bankrupt. So when Carl is hired under suspicious circumstances to fly a Phoenix spaceship to secretly recover valuable material still trapped on the damaged ships, he decides on a different course of action. This sci-fi galactic space tale of intrigue creatively focuses on character introspection and interaction, from corrupt machinations to empathetic emotions, in order to drive its engaging plot. The scientific conceptualizations are strong enough to maintain a realism to the action in space. However, some elements are lightly explained or over-coincidental to make them appear to be forced plot elements, but they are not the main force in a very engaging science fiction story of action, corruption, and redemption.… (más)