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The Disappeared

Retrieval Artist, Book 1

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The Disappeared

By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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 Retrieval Artists help the lost find their way back home, whether they like it or not. Specialized private detectives, they investigate the most unusual crimes in the galaxy. But Miles Flint isn't a Retrieval Artist. He's just a cop, trying to do his job.

In a stolen space yacht, three people have been found eviscerated, the grisly signature of an alien vengeance killing. Moments later, the border patrol halts another ship launched out of the moon's orbit. Its passengers are two human children, kidnapped by the most ruthless aliens in the universe. Both ships are linked to a woman on the run: a Disappeared relocated to the inhospitable landscape of Mars. A reluctant outlaw with a bounty on her head and a detective on her case, she's about to teach all of them a lesson: it's dangerous to gamble with your life in a universe that rigs the game.

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"A masterful writer is at work." (Orson Scott Card)
"Top 10 Greatest Science Fiction Detective Novels of all Time." (io9.com)
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FIRST IN THIS EXCELLENT SERIES,IF YOU LIKE MYSTERYS IN A SCI-FI SETTING YOU WILL LOVE THIS,THE CHARACTERS ARE UTTERLY BELIEVABLE.I BOUGHT BOOK TWO AS SOON AS I READ THIS.

EXCELLENT MYSTERY SCI-FI.

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