Life on Mars: A Jim Meade, Martian P.I. Novel
Jim Meade saved the world. Twice. It nearly killed him. Twice. These days you'll find what's left at the bottom of a bottle and a losing hand of cards.
The Hero of Rosetta is a wreck. Broke, drinking himself into the red Martian dust, and finished with the detective business for good. Then his oldest friend and mentor, Kansas Greyborn, drops a case on his doorstep that no one else can be trusted with: intelligent life has been discovered at a remote outpost deep in the Martian Outback, and the two scientists who claim they found it have vanished without a trace.
Against every instinct, Meade unretires to take the case. But the deeper he digs, the less the disappearance looks like an accident, and the more it looks like the opening move of something far darker. A secret conspiracy is closing its hand around the throat of Mars's fragile young democracy, and someone means to hand the whole planet over to a dictator.
To stop the deadly conspiracy, Meade will have to do the hardest thing he has ever done. Not outshoot a warlord or outrun a bomb, but climb up out of his own grave, dry out, and become the man the Red Planet needs one more time, before life on Mars turns deadly for everyone and everything ... who calls it home.
Perfect for fans of the near-future Mars of For All Mankind, the world-building of classic Heinlein, and hard-boiled noir where the detective is his own worst enemy.
Life on Mars is the fourth Jim Meade: Martian P.I. novel, a comeback story wrapped in a mystery that begins with a discovery no one can explain, and a perfect place for new readers to meet the wryest detective in the solar system.
In this book:
A broken hero dragged out of the bottom of a bottle for one last caseA mystery in the deep Martian Outback that's nothing like it seemsA secret conspiracy intended to strangle a young democracy in its cribThe Hero of Rosetta at his lowest, and the long climb back to redemptionWry, fast, and vividly real, with a case that keeps twistingMurder, betrayal, the fate of humanity. It's all in a day's work for Jim Meade, Martian P.I. But this time the toughest fight is the one inside. Scroll up and continue the series today.
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