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Expendable

by (author) James Alan Gardner

read by Christine Marshall

Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Initial publish date
May 2016
Category
General
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781522600824
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $14.99

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Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different—and terrible—ways to die.

Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin—the feared "Planet of No Return"— which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace. Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won't be, if Festina can help it.

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