Till the Engines Fall Silent: A Science-Fiction Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781918568042)

NOTHING HERE IS BROKEN.

IT JUST WON'T LET YOU LEAVE.

When Captain Rask takes a high-paying job to retrieve a single data core from a vault buried beneath a frozen world, it sounds simple-quiet system, no defences, no competition.

Except every crew that has tried it before is still there.

Their ships are intact. Their systems are dead. And whatever ambition brought them has long since faded.

Inside the vault, nothing fights back because it doesn't have to. The deeper you go, the harder it becomes to act, to move, to finish anything you start. The place doesn't trap you. It simply makes leaving harder than staying.

Rask and the crew of the Meridian push forward anyway, adapting to a system that punishes effort itself. At the centre, they find what they came for-a single object that may be holding the entire vault in balance.

Taking it will change everything.

Getting out will be the real job.

Till the Engines Fall Silent is a fast-paced, darkly funny space pirate adventure where the only way to win is to outthink a system designed to stop you.