By The Book
Where the wild depths of space meets the known, where dark meets light and where chaos meets… slightly more ordered chaos, there is Tredicum IV: the only service station on the transgalactic motorway for fifty trillion miles.
It’s the last place any self-respecting Security Officer would want to be – and it’s exactly where Inspector Sherard’s new posting has landed him. But, come on, it’s still a C.A.C Station, just how bad can it be?
But as Tredicum turns, Sherard discovers he’s not the only new arrival. And this one has an appetite that may quite literally be all-consuming…
The First Tredicum Tale is underway…
By the Book is a 120,000-word satirical Sci-Fi novel set on a lawless space station, at the edge of a galaxy riddled with obstinate bureaucracy.
Inspector Shamuel Sherard knows all the rules, and he’s not afraid to make sure everyone else knows that, too. He also knows he’s not wanted on Tredicum, where every remnant of galactic government has long been scraped off the walls and pushed out the airlock. Up against the sneering Corporations, the perplexing Administrator, and even his own lackadaisical officers, most other sentient lifeforms are already taking bets.
But when a body is discovered, brutally mauled by an unrecognised extra-galactic entity, Sherard has to race to uncover the culprit before anyone else is hurt and prove that no one is above the law: not even on Tredicum.
As The Tide rises, Sherard is forced to realise the law doesn’t hold all the answers, and if he wants to make a difference he’ll have to bend some rules and break a few more. With the help of some unlikely allies – and enemies – he might just stand a chance of making it out the other side. But this isn’t some mindless alien he’s hunting, and Sherard will quickly find he’s facing off with an intelligence to rival even the most powerful of A.I’s.
By the Book is the first of many books set on Tredicum. No matter what happens, the station always keeps turning…
