Voyage by Stephen Baxter

Voyage by Stephen Baxter

G.B. Crane and Associates is an elite team of private investigators. Business is brought to an abrupt halt when the ninety-year-old mother of the head of the firm is found to be turning over large sums of money to a fake Indian holy man. It appears a fraud ring led by the bogus swami is expert at separating old ladies from their cash.

Gilbert Bishop Crane refuses to accept any new cases until his precious mother-a ghastly, ill-tempered old hag-is rescued from Alam Naresh, a smooth-as-silk conman. G.B. Crane employee Grace Forest will now go undercover as a dowager to help solve the mystery of why an actual dowager, her boss's mother, is being swindled out of her dough.

Join the crack team from Gravers Lane as they attempt to collar a very cool character, only to land in the middle of a murderous crime spree almost too hot to handle.

Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957. He holds degrees in mathematics, from Cambridge University; engineering, from Southampton University; and business administration, from Henley Management College. He's a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He has been a full-time author since 1995 and is currently Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association.

His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, France. His books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. He has also published over 100 sf short stories, several of which have won prizes. He can be found at stephen-baxter.com.