Zero Sum Galaxy

Faster-than-light travel made every first strike fatal to its target, and turned every war into a war of extermination. On a space station orbiting a distant star, humanity’s last hope for survival is a lie.

Security investigator Jack Borman has one job: find the defector. Viktor Slayton — brilliant, idealistic, and dangerously well-informed — has gone missing with stolen files that could destabilize the entire Eta Leonis colony system.

But the deeper Jack goes, the more he suspects that the real conspiracy isn’t about what Slayton stole. It’s about what Slayton knew.

Zero Sum Galaxy is the first novel in The Logic of Games, a science fiction thriller series set aboard a generation station where FTL travel, resource scarcity, and the mathematics of interstellar war have produced a society built on careful, necessary deception — and one investigator who is about to learn what that deception has been protecting.

For readers of Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, and the political thrillers of John le Carré transplanted to the far edge of human space.

The complete first trilogy — Zero Sum Galaxy, Veil of Ignorance, and Mutual Defection Round — is available now.