R B Banfield

Bright of a Burning Star R B Banfield

With the new colony world Harax Pras proving ideal for various con artists to take advantage of an optimistic population, no one is more a target than young Beta Dillour. The lone survivor of a space disaster, Beta quickly becomes a Harax Pras celebrity, and is befriended by everyone from socialites to grifters, to the secretive Buddy Shane. In hiding from terrorism charges after trying to steal a ship, Buddy sees space exploration missions as his best chance to escape, and sets about convincing Beta to believe him. Buddy needs the best pilot he can find, and first on the list is the famous Jupe Beggs, but no one knows where he is, or why he is also keen to not show his face. A page-turning thriller set in the early days of galactic colonisation, when the race is on to get out into the universe by any means possible. The fifth of the series of nine novels about the far-reaching influence of people who were only ever looking out for themselves.