In the early twenty-first century, a Rogue planet is charted, ejected from its own solar system as a result of a star colliding with a black hole, slung onto a collision course with Earth. Its trajectory is calculated at two hundred and thirty-six years and should nothing stand in its path, it represents the annihilation of all life on earth.

Over the course of the next two centuries, scientists and engineers design an enormous space station, the Bertram Ramsay, capable of homing nine-million citizens of earth. Its only job is the evacuation and continuity of our species.

The year is 2250-four years from collision. Jaxon Leith is about to begin his new life. Since the collapse of the global economy, he has lived hand-to-mouth and day-to-day in The Bleeds, a corner of London where metal housing, eight-hundred storeys high, dominates the skyline, and casts eternal shadows over the streets. Six months ago Jaxon received an invitation to join the crew of the Bertram Ramsay and our story begins as he leaves The Bleeds for the first time in his life, to enter Compression-a specialist training facility designed to acclimatise Occos (occupants) to their future life on board the Bertram Ramsay.

When the new planet was first charted, and the plan to evacuate earth was first conceived, a group of zealots, obsessed with eschatology-the End Times, created an organisation called the Acolytes of Gaia. Their sole aim is to prevent the evacuation, and the pillaging of Earth's minerals. They will stop at nothing to destroy the Bertram Ramsay, and to see that the Earth sees her fate. In the beginning they were little more than a cult. Two hundred years later, they are powerful, faceless and ruthless, and have operatives in the highest ranks of government, military and civilian organisations.

As Jaxon enters Compression Echo, on the site of GCHQ, a cascade of events sees him drawn in to a world of espionage, combat, love, murder and intrigue. Recruited as a counter-intelligence officer in the Bertram Ramsay Defence Force our story follows his training, and his winding path through Compression, as he faces an unknown and unseen enemy. With the help of ICP Officer Laura Watkins, the two of them must identify the infiltrators and prevent them from carrying out their mission to destroy the Bertram Ramsay, killing nine million inhabitants in what would be the single largest terrorist attack in human history.

Rogue is the first book in the series and follows Jaxon in a race against time, through his earthbound trials to an explosive conclusion.

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