Tag Archives: Fresh Start

Description

A ship, a gun, and a nice teal robe to find one killer on a planet of
criminals: will Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for?
Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for?

On the edges of mankind’s domain there is a penal planet called Fresh Start
where a sentence is at best exile to five generations, but more likely death
in its harsh unforgiving wastes. It is to this planet the empire sends the
worst of the worst and it is on this planet that Qays Mendoza searches for
his old captain.

The galactic empire is falling, civilization contracts. Fresh Start is
abandoned. Without oversight, the planet is wild, without guards; the
Oubliette, the supermax prison on the supermax planet, lies open, and the
Butcher of Raznak, a killer worse than the one Qays seeks, is on the loose.
With the help of a street waif called Patience, Qays seeks answers. His soul
is stained with guilt and his spirit broken by complicity. Religion did not
have the answer; duty did not explain it. Birthright and station were not
enough. His answers lie somewhere on Fresh Start.

Continue reading “Review: Fresh Start, by Johnny Wortham”