Recruit for Andromeda

In a future America paranoia has become policy. When Kit Temple's name is called for the Nowhere Journey, he knows exactly what that means: a one-way ticket into the void, another young man fed into a machine that chews up draftees and spits out nothing but silence. No one has ever come back. No one knows where the ships go. The only certainty is the knock on the door and the Riot Copters circling Center City as young men wait to learn their fates. Kit leaves behind Stephanie, their love measured in the hours before departure. But on the launchpad he meets Arkalion, a wealthy young man with eyes like an ancient's, and Kit begins to suspect the Nowhere Journey isn't just a death sentence. It's a door. What lies beyond it could save humanity or end it and when Kit finally follows Arkalion through that door, he discovers the secret has been waiting at the end of space and time itself. A Cold War thriller wearing a space opera's skin, Recruit for Andromeda is about what we owe our species, what we sacrifice without knowing why, and whether the unknown deserves our trust.