The Aleph Extraction: The Galactic Cold War, Book II

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Aboard a notorious gangster's luxurious starliner, Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of the war. Still reeling from a former teammate's betrayal, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic's band of misfit spies has no time to catch their breath before being sent on another impossible mission- to pull off the daring heist of a quasi-mythical alien artifact from under the nose of the galaxy's most ruthless gangster, not to mention their cold war rivals, the Illyrican Empire. But Kovalic's newest recruit, Specialist Addy Sayers, is a volatile ex-con with a mean hair-trigger -- can he hold the team together, or will they turn on each other before the job even gets underway?

DAN MOREN is a novelist, freelance writer, and prolific podcaster. A former senior editor at Macworld, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Macworld, Popular Science, Yahoo Tech, and many others. He co-hosts tech podcasts Clockwise and The Rebound, writes and hosts nerdy quiz show Inconceivable!, and appears on the award-winning The Incomparable. Dan lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he plays ultimate frisbee, video, and tabletop games.

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