book cover of Below Mercury
 

Below Mercury

(2011)
(The first book in the Clare Foster series)
A novel by

 
 
SOME SECRETS ARE BEST LEFT UNDISTURBED ...

Mercury - closest planet to the Sun. In the permanent darkness of Chao Meng-fu crater lie vast fields of ice that that have never seen the Sun, and the ruins of Erebus Mine, abandoned and forgotten after a devastating explosion that claimed the lives of 257 people. After an eight-year legal battle, the relatives of the victims have finally succeeded in forcing the Space Accidents Investigation Board to reopen its investigation. The mission team is led by Clare Foster, a pilot in the U.S. Astronautics Corps, who has taken on the mission in the hope of rebuilding her career after a near-miss incident.
But powerful forces are determined that what lies hidden in the mine will never be uncovered, and have taken steps to ensure that the mission team will never return ...


Genre: Science Fiction

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