Strings

By: Dave Duncan

Narrated by: Victor Bevine

Alya's hunches were never wrong. So the scientists of 4-I were happy to promise her a place in the next offworld colonization team if she agreed to assess the potential of the latest worlds they had discovered. Then she met Cedric, the grandson of 4-I's brilliant and tyrannical director, and for the first time ever she began to doubt her uncanny intuition.

Cedric dreamed of becoming a scout and exploring other worlds. When he met the lovely Alya he was more determined than ever to leave Earth - with her. His grandmother, though, needed him as a pawn in her Machiavellian plot to cover up a murder and protect 4-I itself from being destroyed.

She had no intention of letting him go. But the director underestimated her grandson - and the woman whose destiny seemed linked with his....

©1989 D.J. Duncan (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

long time favorate

fun story, he may have missed the mark on the environmental issues but his assessment of big tech and big media seem on spot.