Lunar Prey
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"It's a menace from the Moon!"
Moonbase Alpha has seen better days. Between the budget cuts,
and the radiation leaks, and the renegade robots, it all adds up to a massive
headache for the base commander. Or it would have, if he hadn't decided to take
a naked stroll out an airlock.
In space, accidents happen, and nobody knows that more than Captain Lucas
Davenport of the Minnesota Space Police. He doesn't think it's all a
coincidence. The radiation leaks and the robots could just be diversions. And
was the base commander's death the ultimate goal? Or is it just another
distraction?
And the timing of everything is more than a little suspect: the grand
coronation of Countess Kourtney de Luna to Queen of the Moon is only two weeks
away, during a once-every-thousand-years lunar conjunction. It can't be delayed.
And, Lucas knows, someone — or some thing — is counting on
that fact.
And if Lucas can't figure out what's going on, and who is behind it all,
the moon itself might be destroyed! For some reason!