Venusian Invader

It's 1945, and the solar system has been mapped, colonized, and carved up by Earth's governments. But beyond the reach of any marshal or starship lies Venus, a world of acid rain and wild frontiers where the only law belongs to those desperate enough to make it. Tar Norn is a pirate not out of cruelty but out of survival, a man who knows that the line between outlaw and honest man is thinner than any atmosphere. When he takes Leah Barrow, the daughter of Comprotown's Director, he sets in motion a chain of events that will force him to choose between the only life he's ever known and something he never expected: a conscience. This is pulpy adventure fiction at its most raw, a story that understands adventure novels have always been about one thing: what we're willing to sacrifice to become better than we are. The prose crackles with the energy of a genre still young enough to believe the stars belong to everyone.