The Kraken Gate
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Connie Derringer's day hasn't begun well. She's just blown up her place of employment and killed dozens of people, including two of her own team. Director Harman isn't having the best of days either. The project he's sunk millions of sovereigns into has just been blown sky-high, and now Chancellor Gordon, Head of the Republican Council is on his case. Chancellor Gordon doesn't need new problems. If the vaporisation of a city block wasn't bad enough, the uneasy truce between Emberland and their warlike neighbours has broken down.
Against a backdrop of an escalating war against an enemy with air superiority, Connie Derringer must protect her client's invention against Nallian spies and saboteurs. Everyone wants a piece of the Koulomb Gate, but perhaps they'd be less keen if they knew about the alien creatures lurking on the far side of the portal.
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