True Blue Kangaroo by Curtis C Chen

True Blue Kangaroo by Curtis C Chen

Kangaroo doesn't want to go to prison?

Too bad, Kangaroo

Be seeing you.

Welcome to the spacefaring future, where humanity travels between planets with ease and has abused that power to establish outposts in some questionable places.

Take Venus, for example: a sister world to Mother Earth, similar in size and gravity, it's also known for having a toxic atmosphere and hellish landscape at ground level. But climate-controlled habitat domes stay in eternal sunlight and offer vacationers endless good times while floating through blue skies above the clouds of deadly acid.

Meanwhile, hidden down inside those poisonous clouds are other floating habitats, so-called blue sites-government-controlled secret prisons where inmates are incarcerated with no oversight and no hope of escape.

And why, pray tell, would secret agent Kangaroo, with his pocket superpower and bleeding-edge biotech implants, need to infiltrate such a secure facility? Might it be to rescue another spy who's gone radio silent? Or perhaps to extract a high value asset who claims to have been wrongly imprisoned therein? Possibly both?

It's six of one, half a dozen of the other. Questions are a burden to others, and answers a prison for oneself.

What do you want? Information? That would be telling.

Set in the same world as WAYPOINT KANGAROO and KANGAROO TOO, this high-octane science-fiction spy thriller, teeming with adrenaline and intrigue, continues spinning blockbuster outer space adventure.

CURTIS C.CHEN attended Clarion West (instructors included World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner John Crowley and Hugo/Nebula winner James Patrick Kelly) after graduating from Viable Paradise (instructors included NYT bestseller John Scalzi). His short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction and SNAFU, and he will be featured in Baen's MISSION: TOMORROW anthology. He's also a former software developer who once created a cat-feeding robot. He resides in the city of Vancouver, Washington.