Tracer

, #1

Mass Market Paperback, 398 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2016 by Redhook.

ISBN:
978-0-316-26527-0
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A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity. It's broken, rusted, falling apart. We've wrecked our planet, and now we have to live with the consequences: a new home that's dirty, overcrowded and inescapable. What's more, there's a madman hiding on the station. He's about to unleash chaos. And when he does, there'll be nowhere left to run. " Tracer" is perfect for fans of Hugh Howey, Preston & Child, James Rollins, Matthew Riley, and Andy Weir.

3 editions

reviewed Tracer by Rob Boffard (Outer Earth, #1)

Fast-paced (literally) sci-fi fun

In orbit above a blasted and destroyed planet Earth, a million people have lived and worked aboard the Outer Earth for almost a century. Riley Hale is a Tracer, someone who makes a living running deliveries across the station for above-board as well as black market clients. She prefers not to know what her cargo is, but when she's attacked by a gang en route to the air labs one day, she accidentally discovers the horrifying contents of her backpack. This starts a chain of events that has to do with conflict between the station Council, a terrorist group who think humans don't deserve to live anymore, and Riley's small gang of Tracers who just want to get by.

The action slows dramatically at the end, a bit too much for my taste, but overall the book had me at the edge of my seat for 90% of the story. …

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction