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 satirical police novel set on a distant space station where rules sour into guidelines and common sense seems to fail. Shamual Sherard must grapple with an unwilling Security Service, fend off the ever-hungry being known only as “The Tide” and try to keep as many people alive as he can along the way. Throughout the novel he meets many of the colourful characters of Tredicum IV and has to navigate the not-so-subtle politics of the galaxies most dangerous service station.
The story is set entirely at the edge of the galaxy, in a distant future where a central galactic body has taken control. Power and order form major themes of the work and the protagonist has to fight both apparent-friend and foe to keep the peace.
By the Book is the first of many books set on Tredicum. No matter what happens, the station always keeps turning…
