Elite mercenary Connor Rattakul can't escape his past.

After choosing the wrong side in a war against the Directorate, he becomes a fugitive, hiding in the ranks of the thousands of mercenaries always desperate for the next job. But a series of mishaps force his team deep into the Talon Sector, where the Directorate holds power. Only his former girlfriend's intervention can save him.

With Directorate assassins on his trail, Connor is forced to take on a job that his team might not survive from a client his boss says can't be trusted.

But that boss seems ready to crack, and the client is hiding deadly secrets from the mercenaries. Will Connor be able to lead his teammates through the dark world he's led  them to, or will they all die in the alien gloom?

Ill Fortune

When Connor reached the passageway, he pulled his pocket computer out. He grunted in embarrassment at the realization that he’d let the alarm cause panic, then allowed that panic to drive his actions.


He stood under a vent, basking in the cool, sweet air while Selen glared at his pocket computer.


Except, Connor realized, the air had a musty funk to it. And it wasn’t as cool as it should be. He was comparing it to what it had felt like outside, in the swampy planetary atmosphere.


When the pocket computer interfaced with the Lucky Sevens’s monitoring systems, it identified the problem he’d been dreading.


Selen took the computer from him. “Hull breach?”


“And something happened to the atmospheric recycler.”


“Then I guess we know where the breach is.” She returned his computer to him. “Someone’s going to have to go up there.”


It would’ve been Drew and him, but now it was just him. “Maybe Yemi can help me.”


Chapter 69