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The Descent

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After Denton foils a terrorist attack at an Intergalactic sporting event, he finds himself racing to save his homeworld from a plot of betrayal and revenge.
 
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When Denton Staxx, a special agent with the Orbital Security Services, discovers the Intergalactic Olympic Games have been targeted by a terrorist attack, he rushes to Earth to try and stop the event before it's too late. But what he discovers on earth is far worse than he imagined, and Denton is quickly pulled into a galaxy-wide conspiracy that takes him from one solar system to another in the search for a mastermind that will stop at nothing to get his revenge on the richest man in the universe -- regardless of the innocent people who die along the way.

[[Wattys' Shortlisted]]
[[1st place, Month Elimination Awards, Sci-Fi Category]]
[[Best Plot Development, Iced Tea Summer Bash Awards]]
[[Best Adventure Scifi Story, The Ooorah's SciFi Awards]]
[[1st place, Rebel Awards, Sci-fi Category]]

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