Description

Freeman is a former lawyer, judge, and cop who fell into bad times, bad enough that he had to escape from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. A friend back on Earth helped get him the job he has now, acting as a private detective and personal enforcer on Pella, one of the larger asteroids in the belt between Mars and Saturn. Called The Rock, the gravity there is half that of Earth's, but the crime hasn't changed at all.

Begun as a scientific station centuries ago, The Rock has grown into a community with its own society and culture, and its own secrets. Freeman's best means of getting the job done is to step on toes, but this time he may have stepped on the wrong ones.

Forces back on Earth have their eye on the Belt's mining rights and the nearly unlimited wealth those rights would bring. Freeman finds that they have no issues regarding killing anyone who stands in their way.