Void Contract – Book One of Gigaparsec
Max doesn’t want to be an assassin, but his Xhosan-African genes and hunter training make him invisible to empaths, the perfect weapon for hunting alien war criminals across the Gigaparsec of known space. After they’re all gone, he isn’t sure how he’ll fit into peacetime society. That’s not a problem now that Saurian mobsters have kidnapped his only surviving friend. Since evolved races can’t legally kill sentients, Max is going to have to get creative.
Fans of Dietz, Zahn, Vance, Heinlein, Walter Jon Williams, David Brin, and Babylon 5 should enjoy this action-filled quest to other planets.
About Scott Rhine (Twin Cities, Minnesota Author)
Scott Rhine wanted to find a job that combined his love of reading with math problem solving, so he studied both short stories and computer languages. As a techno-gypsy, he worked on optimizing some of the fastest and largest supercomputers in the world. A couple of degrees, patents, and children later, at forty-eight, he still didn't know what he wanted to be when he grew up. When his third publication, "Doors to Eternity," hit #16 on the Amazon epic fantasy list, he decided to become a full-time author. Since then, each book of his "Jezebel's Ladder" series hit the high-tech science fiction top 100. His new medical thriller, "the K2 Virus," is his highest rated novel with the first 12 reviews ranking it five stars.
Humor is a part of every story he writes because people are funny, even when they don't think so. In the real world, something always goes wrong and people have flaws. If you can't laugh at yourself, someone is probably doing it for you. Strong female characters also play a major role in his stories because he's married to a beautiful PhD who can edit, break boards, and use a chainsaw.
His YA series "Messenger" and "Shaman" are about a teen who moves from Las Vegas to Minnesota in the middle of winter..
