1947. The atomic age has dawned, and the stars are the next frontier. Jon Saxon is a nuclear physicist tasked with humanity's first expedition to Alpha Centauri, a mission that could reshape civilization. But Saxon lives in a world where corporations wield more power than governments, where telepaths are weaponized assets, and where the shadowy forces of General Atomic will kill to control the future of interstellar travel. When Saxon discovers secrets that threaten the men who control everything, he becomes a man on the run through a world that feels like a fever dream of postwar optimism poisoned by paranoia. The outcasts he encounters on his journey may be the only ones he can trust, or they may be the final trap. McDowell writes with the muscular confidence of a writer who came of age during humanity's most terrifying transformation, capturing both the exhilaration and the dread of a moment when everything seemed possible and everything felt like it might be taken away.
