It’s hard to win when you don’t know who you’re fighting In the 24th century, machines, automation, and AI do just about everything for humankind, and everyone on Earth has a pretty good life and no worries. But out in the asteroid belt things aren’t quite so good. Someone has been killing people, stealing mineral-rich asteroids, and making spaceships and space stations disappear without a trace. As Captain Tar Barsak and the crew of the patrol cruiser Werner Von Braun investigate, they discover they face a foe far more powerful and ruthless than they imagined, and danger from where they least expected it. H. Lee Willis is a retired electrical engineer and inventor of several engineering techniques now widely used to design electric power systems around the world. He is the author of seven previously published engineering textbooks and one novel. An ardent student of history and science, this is his first science fiction story and an attempt to combine his love for science with the fact that humankind’s history keeps repeating itself.