HOW HARD COULD IT BE?
Chairman Febo of the Association of Planets wants the cure for RDT addiction. There's only one problem.
It's thirty-one thousand light-years away, in the Kingdon of Vauxhall. It is also secret and expensive, reserved to the nobility and the elites.
The cluster nations mount an expedition to find the cure and bring it back to the cluster. Anticipating a difficult mission, they send their best: Bert Mangum, Elina Stavros, Chuck Pendergast, and Gloria Dent.
But can even these four operatives, with the help of the aliens Sam and Jules, steal the cure right out from under the noses of the core-world elites?
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND
What's 'The Cure' about?
In 'The Favor', Tanner Linden reveals under interrogation that there was a cure for RDT addiction under development 'in the Earth sector' twenty years ago. Chairman Isabel Febo of the Association of Planets wants that cure for all the RDT addicts in the cluster.
They can't just go and buy it?
No. It's ludicrously expensive, the high price artificially maintained by the elites of the core worlds, who don't want the poor and middle class to have it. RDT is a means for them to maintain power, by keeping people drugged and happy.
What do they do?
They send Bert Mangum, Elina Stavros, Chuck Pendergast, and Gloria Dent to find the cure and steal it.
Thirty-one thousand light-years?
Yes. 'The cluster' in the books is NGC 2808, which is thirty-one thousand light-years from Earth. It's not even in the galactic disk, but maybe ten thousand light-years below it. It's a long damn ways away, no doubt about it.
How did this book write?
Faster than 'Eve of War' and 'The Favor', which were among the slowest books for me to write. Writing espionage is new to me, and it took me a while to get my sea legs in the espionage science fiction subgenre. But it seems to be easier now, as 'The Cure' took thirty-four days start to finish.
What's the cover?
That's Bert Mangum and Chuck Pendergast. Gloria Dent and Elina Stavros were on the covers of the first two books, so I decided to put Pendergast on this one. Bert Mangum, of course, is on all the covers. This cover is another excellent piece made to order for me by Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studio in Italy.
What's next for the Agency series? Are there other books coming in this series?
Yes. I have an inkling of what books 4 and 5 will be, and those will probably finish out this series. But no spoilers possible, because whether they go in the direction I think they do or not is up in the air.
You don't know?
I won't know until I write them. I never do.
Genre: Thriller
Chairman Febo of the Association of Planets wants the cure for RDT addiction. There's only one problem.
It's thirty-one thousand light-years away, in the Kingdon of Vauxhall. It is also secret and expensive, reserved to the nobility and the elites.
The cluster nations mount an expedition to find the cure and bring it back to the cluster. Anticipating a difficult mission, they send their best: Bert Mangum, Elina Stavros, Chuck Pendergast, and Gloria Dent.
But can even these four operatives, with the help of the aliens Sam and Jules, steal the cure right out from under the noses of the core-world elites?
.
AN INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND
What's 'The Cure' about?
In 'The Favor', Tanner Linden reveals under interrogation that there was a cure for RDT addiction under development 'in the Earth sector' twenty years ago. Chairman Isabel Febo of the Association of Planets wants that cure for all the RDT addicts in the cluster.
They can't just go and buy it?
No. It's ludicrously expensive, the high price artificially maintained by the elites of the core worlds, who don't want the poor and middle class to have it. RDT is a means for them to maintain power, by keeping people drugged and happy.
What do they do?
They send Bert Mangum, Elina Stavros, Chuck Pendergast, and Gloria Dent to find the cure and steal it.
Thirty-one thousand light-years?
Yes. 'The cluster' in the books is NGC 2808, which is thirty-one thousand light-years from Earth. It's not even in the galactic disk, but maybe ten thousand light-years below it. It's a long damn ways away, no doubt about it.
How did this book write?
Faster than 'Eve of War' and 'The Favor', which were among the slowest books for me to write. Writing espionage is new to me, and it took me a while to get my sea legs in the espionage science fiction subgenre. But it seems to be easier now, as 'The Cure' took thirty-four days start to finish.
What's the cover?
That's Bert Mangum and Chuck Pendergast. Gloria Dent and Elina Stavros were on the covers of the first two books, so I decided to put Pendergast on this one. Bert Mangum, of course, is on all the covers. This cover is another excellent piece made to order for me by Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studio in Italy.
What's next for the Agency series? Are there other books coming in this series?
Yes. I have an inkling of what books 4 and 5 will be, and those will probably finish out this series. But no spoilers possible, because whether they go in the direction I think they do or not is up in the air.
You don't know?
I won't know until I write them. I never do.
Genre: Thriller
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