Alan Mercier was not a murderer. The problem was that it’s tough to believe that when everyone else trawling for space junk was, and one happens to return from a mission in a dead man’s ship.
An even bigger challenge is finding actual money amongst all the empty fuel stages, radioisotope thermoelectric generators, dogs, monkeys - you name it - that has been chucked into orbit in the last century.
Eventually Alan Mercier has to take on a much more lucrative - and dangerous contract.
That makes it even more difficult to clear his name.
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